I Sent a $30K Worth of a Proposal to a Multinational Corporation
Last month, I sent out a $30,000 proposal. It was the highest number I’ve ever quoted in my life. And before anyone assumes this is a flex, let me make this clear upfront: the proposal got rejected. I made zero dollars from it. But the experience reshaped how I look at this industry, and it will do the same for anyone operating at the lower end of the market so please read this. Last month I paused taking project. I grounded myself, stepped back from small-ticket projects, and focused on recalibrating how I operate. Right in that period, a meeting landed on my calendar. Fully inbound I opened the company profile and immediately understood the scale. This wasn’t some small brand. This was a multinational corporation operating across markets, doing billions in annual sales, with a portfolio full of names like Ferrari and Porsche and you name a car they worked with them. Knowing the stakes, I went deep. My research document ended up being 20+ pages. I analysed their past projects, their engineering workflows, their market positioning, and their organisational setup. By the time I got on the call, I knew their business better than some of their internal teams. Then the real conversation started. He told me their board of directors are looking for Ai agent and then I tell him few ideas and then he get an idea after seeing my demo. they wanted an "Ai-Agent” – an AI system trained on every project they had ever done, capable of responding like a technical engineer. Not a chatbot. A functional engineering assistant that could understand car systems, models, components, and historical data. They can validate their ideas to it. If a regular client had asked for this, I would have priced it around $4,000. But this wasn’t a regular client. The scale, complexity, and operational value were on a completely different level. We booked a new call I built a demo. I showed them a prototype. It solved exactly what they described just not yet at the enterprise level they needed.