We want to see everything and make sense of it

When writing proposals, it is always a good thing to look at past proposals and see if there is a trend. In particular, it is interesting to understand the slection mechanism by which the decision is made. Since it takes so much of a researcher's time to write a proposal, reading past debriefings is a good return on investment in answering the question: Will my idea go through the different tests of this organization. For instance, let say you want to contribute to a specific technology for the NRO through the Director's Innovative Initiative. Unlike some other agencies, this one provide breifings from previous years. It is a good thing. Unfortunately, it is all in a pdf format. In order to fully utilize this information, you really need to have some type of templates that uses all the remarks that were made in this briefing. If they are in pdf, you have to retype everything, which is a pain. Fortunately, Adobe allows a pdf-to-text converter to work over the web if the initial document is on the web. It is a nice little tool that should allow me to use the DII's debriefing present in my document so I can write a proposal accordingly. I believe there is a market for this type of application. An application that somehow reminds you of the essential points that need to be put in the document that you are producing. Large and small companies have boilerplates which have seen the test of time. But I think there is a market for small companies that just start entering new businesses.