How AI Software May Help MSPs to Automate Request for Proposal (RFP) Responses And More — Channel Angels

Still, there are signs of progress in the startup software market. Chief among them: Take a look at IRIS, a “collaborative platform that gets more useful the more often that people use it,” according to the New York-based startup.

In some ways, IRIS sounds like an AI documentation platform that could potentially disrupt IT Glue (owned by Kaseya). But take a closer look, and IRIS could be so much more.

How so? The software allows you to create content or upload existing content into a so-called Knowledge Map. Example Knowledge Maps, according to IRIS, include:

• Procurement resources: Contract templates, RFP responses, Security documentation (i.e SOC2 report), Privacy Policy, GDPR statement

• Marketing content: webinar transcripts, blog posts, email copy, attribution data

• Product requirements: User stories, acceptance criteria, QA checklists, user feedback

• Sales collateral: Proposals, pitch decks, RFP responses, meeting transcripts

Once you create and populate a Knowledge Map with your content, you can ask questions by chatting with tagged content, generate new documents, and create presentations, IRIS asserts. Among the prime use cases: Iris allows users to respond to RFPs (requests for proposals) and security questionnaires in an automated and rapid way, according to early adopters such as Class Technologies.

Iris Raises Funding, And…

True believers in Iris include Rewst CEO Aharon Chernin, along with investment firms such as Florida Funders and Naples Technology Ventures. Through Florida Funders, multiple Channel Angels participated in the Iris funding round, which was announced in February 2025. Fast forward to March 2025, and Iris CEO Ben Hills celebrated an office ribbon cutting in Manhattan, New York.