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As of 13 August 2026, AI can add answers to likely objections in your proposal.

Most people should do this themselves; the prompt is on this page.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

15 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsCopy.ai is a purpose-built alternative for AI copy and go-to-market content workflows.

If this goes wrong: the proposal contains a vague or unsupported answer, and the buyer loses confidence before you correct it.

What to actually do

  1. Do it yourself

    The route this page recommends

    A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 15 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open the current proposal and copy its full text into a working document, including the price, scope, timetable and terms.
    2. Gather the buyer's role, stated priorities, known concerns, decision process and relevant points from calls or emails.
    3. Paste the proposal, buyer context and approved source material into the prompt, replacing each bracketed slot.
    4. Run the prompt and ask the model to mark any unsupported answer as NEEDS INPUT rather than filling the gap.
    5. Compare every drafted answer with your current price list, delivery capacity, service description, evidence and contract terms, and replace anything that overpromises.
    6. Add the verified answers in the relevant sections of the proposal, then send the revised version to a colleague for a commercial and tone check if the deal is important.

    Prompt

    Add objection handling to the proposal below.

First, identify the buyer's likely concerns about price, risk, timing, implementation, switching, proof and contract terms. Use only concerns that follow from the proposal and buyer context. Then create a table with these columns: objection, what the buyer may really mean, recommended answer, evidence or detail needed, and where the answer should appear in the proposal.

Write the recommended answers in plain UK English. Keep them specific, calm and commercially honest. Do not invent customer results, accreditations, features, delivery dates, savings, guarantees, legal terms or competitor comparisons. If the supplied material does not support an answer, write "NEEDS INPUT" and state exactly what I need to confirm. Do not weaken or change the quoted price, scope or contractual position. Finish with the five objections most likely to block approval and a short list of facts I must check before sending.

Buyer and situation:
[PASTE BUYER ROLE, ORGANISATION, PRIORITIES, CONCERNS AND ANY RELEVANT CONVERSATION]

Proposal:
[PASTE THE FULL PROPOSAL]

Approved pricing, scope, delivery assumptions, evidence and contract terms:
[PASTE THE CURRENT SOURCE MATERIAL]

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice

  3. Hand it to a person

    The distant third

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot know the objection the buyer is withholding because of internal politics, a competing supplier or a previous bad experience.
  • AI cannot decide which objection deserves a concession and which should be challenged.
  • AI cannot verify that a claim about delivery, security, results or service capacity is still true unless you provide current evidence.
  • AI tends to answer objections with generic reassurance when the proposal lacks a concrete proof point.
  • AI cannot take responsibility for a promise that changes the buyer's contractual or commercial expectations.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: judgement under ambiguity, context depth and stakes of error.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs2
Verification2
Liability2
Effort delta2
Total10 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can AI write responses to objections in a sales proposal?
Yes. Give it the proposal, buyer context and approved facts, and it can identify likely concerns and draft responses. Check every promise against your current pricing, scope, evidence and terms before sending.
What objections should I include in my proposal?
Start with price, risk, timing, implementation, switching, proof and contract terms, then remove concerns that do not fit this buyer. AI can produce the first list, but your sales conversation is the better source for what is actually blocking the decision.
Can AI handle price objections in a proposal?
It can draft a clear explanation of the price and connect it to the stated scope or outcome. It must not invent savings, guarantees or a business case, and you need to approve any concession or change to the commercial terms.
How do I stop AI making up answers to sales objections?
Give it an approved source of pricing, scope, delivery assumptions, evidence and contract terms, and instruct it to mark unsupported points as NEEDS INPUT. Compare the finished answers with those sources before they reach the buyer.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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