For teams who read solicitations for a living
The solicitation already told you whether to bid.
Somebody has to read all 214 pages. Margin does, and every finding it returns carries the page, the section, and the line it stands on.
Documents are read in place. Citations stay; the file does not.
Findings
TEA-2026-RFP-0147
The Margin
p.47 · L.3.1
1L.3.1 The offeror shall submit its proposal in two separate volumes.
2Volume I, Technical, shall not exceed forty (40) pages, excluding
3resumes, letters of commitment, and the cross-reference matrix.
4Volume II, Price, is not page limited.
5L.3.2 Text shall be no smaller than 12-point Times New Roman.
6Tables and figures may use 10-point type if legible at 100 percent.
7L.4.1 Proposals are due no later than 2:00 p.m. Central Time.
8Late proposals will be handled in accordance with FAR 52.215-1(c)(3).
A real fragment of the workspace. Point at a finding — the clause lights beside it.
- 214
- pages read in four minutes
- 186
- requirements extracted, each cited
- 0
- claims without a source
The idea
Scholars have argued in the margin for eight hundred years.
The margin is where the reader answers the text — where they say it back, and where the disagreement lives. Margin puts the source there, next to the claim, so checking a finding costs a glance instead of a search.
The Margin
p.47 · L.3.1
1L.3.1 The offeror shall submit its proposal in two separate volumes.
2Volume I, Technical, shall not exceed forty (40) pages, excluding
3resumes, letters of commitment, and the cross-reference matrix.
4Volume II, Price, is not page limited.
5L.3.2 Text shall be no smaller than 12-point Times New Roman.
6Tables and figures may use 10-point type if legible at 100 percent.
7L.4.1 Proposals are due no later than 2:00 p.m. Central Time.
8Late proposals will be handled in accordance with FAR 52.215-1(c)(3).
Move a citation. The source moves with it — page, section, and the exact line.
How it reads a document
Eight readers, in order, each refusing to leave until its part is cited.
No spinner, no progress bar pretending to be busy — a roster of readers taking the floor one at a time, their reasoning streaming as they work.
Intake
Splits the file, reads the cover sheet, fixes the identity
Opening the file — 214 pages, no OCR layer needed.
Scope
Separates what is actually being bought from the background
Section C runs to 41 pages — reading the performance work statement.
Compliance
Extracts every shall, must and will into a matrix
Pulling obligations — 186 candidate requirements so far.
Eligibility
Finds the gates that disqualify before anyone reads your prose
Checking set-aside status against the NAICS size standard.
Evaluation
Reconstructs how the award will actually be scored
Section M declares best value tradeoff, not lowest price.
Risk
Names what could go wrong while there is still time to act
Cross-checking the delivery schedule against the transition window.
Verifier
Refuses to let a claim through without its clause
Re-reading each finding against its cited line.
Q&A
Turns silence and contradiction into questions worth asking
Collecting what the document never said.
A standard pass over 214 pages takes about four minutes.
What you get back
Not a summary. A working surface.
A summary is something you have to trust. Every artefact below is something you can hand to a person and they can work on it the same hour.
- 01
A compliance matrix that assigns itself
Every shall, must, and will lifted into a row with its clause attached — ready to hand to an owner and point at a response location.
- 02
A go/no-go you can defend
Eligibility gates, weighted. The gauge shows where the bid stands, and recording a decision stamps it with the reason you gave.
- 03
The SILENT ledger
What the document never said — unnamed incumbents, absent ceilings, missing page limits. Each entry becomes an agency question in a click.
- 04
Deadlines in the agency's time zone
Not yours. Countdowns tick against the zone the solicitation was written in, because that is the one that closes the window.
- 05
Amendments as a diff
Re-read against a new amendment and see only what moved, with anything that invalidates assigned work flagged in red.
Evidence
The people who read these documents for a living.
“We used to lose a day to the first read and still miss the page limit. Now the limit is the first thing on the screen, with the clause beside it.”
“The SILENT ledger is the part nobody else does. It told us the incumbent was never named, which turned into the question that won us the re-compete.”
“I don't trust summaries. I trust the citation. Margin is the only tool where I can click a claim and land on the line.”
Pricing
Priced per seat, because that is who does the reading.
Solo
One capture lead, reading everything themselves.
$49/ seat / monthbilled annually
Start a trial- 20 documents a month
- Standard and Quick Triage reads
- Compliance matrix and Q&A builder
- DOCX export
- Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive
Practice
Most chosenA capture team that shares the work and the deadline.
$40/ seat / monthbilled annually
Start a trial- Unlimited documents
- Every read mode, including Deep Research
- Shared matrix with owners and review states
- Institutional memory and templates
- Amendment diffs and re-compete compare
- Audit trail and role-based access
Enterprise
Multiple business units, one compliance standard.
Let’s talkTalk to us- Everything in Practice
- Microsoft Entra SSO and SCIM
- Retention and residency controls
- Private model deployment
- Named implementation lead
Every difference, in one place
The next one is 214 pages and due in eleven days.
Give it to Margin and have the compliance matrix, the gates, and the questions before lunch.
No card. A new workspace starts empty and fills with what Margin reads.