AI agents can now draft a full, compliant AEC proposal in your firm's own InDesign or Word template in under an hour. That doesn't make proposal work less human. It hands the human part back: the strategy, the win themes, the story only your firm can tell. Jackie Chen and Eric Chiang, founders of Buoyant, will run a live, unscripted demo of AI agents working a real public-sector pursuit end to end: go/no-go scoring, team and project selection, full draft generation in InDesign, and a compliance review against the RFP. They'll share real results from Southern California AEC firms, then take your hardest questions on what AI does well, what it still can't do, and what it means for proposal careers. Target audience: proposal coordinators, marketing managers, and BD professionals at AEC firms, from AI-curious to AI-cautious.

Registration closes 9/13 at 5:00pm.

Registration is non-refundable.

Your instructorS

Jackie Chen
CEO & Co-Founder
Buoyant

CEO & Co-Founder. Jackie Chen is CEO and co-founder of Buoyant, the first company to build digital employees (AI Agents) for AEC firms - native in MS Word and Adobe InDesign. Our marketing agents give you RFP-specific, in-voice, properly formatted proposal/SOQ drafts in minutes vs what would take you days. We started with proposals because that is one of the clearest pain areas inside engineering firms. Proposal writers and marketing teams are under constant deadline pressure, senior technical staff get dragged into repetitive admin work, and firm leaders are trying to grow without layering on more overhead.

Jackie is a 3x entrepreneur and civil engineer. He started as an engineer, became a venture capitalist where he invested in 100+ start ups in construction and AEC before becoming a proposal writer. It was during that year writing proposals for engineering firms that he realized how painful it was and started Buoyant.

Eric Chiang
Co-Founder
Buoyant

Co-Founder. Eric Chiang is CTO of Buoyant, where he leads product and engineering. He started his career at Siemens then was a top 1% software engineer at Bloomberg and Amazon Prime Video. He builds the InDesign and Word agents behind Buoyant's proposal drafts and will be running the live demo.

Pricing

Members
Early Bird: $20
Regular: $30

Members Outside of Orange County
Early Bird: $20
Regular: $30

Non-Members
Early Bird: $30
Regular: $40

Domains

1.5 CEUs

• Domain 4: SOQs/Proposals