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When AI-written RFPs inflate the scope

AI on both sides of procurement can turn suggestions into requirements. Quality discovery gives vendors a meaningful project and budget to price.

Five-panel cartoon about requirements growing through procurement. A woman asks an LLM for a way to get groceries home. The RFP becomes an electric cargo bicycle; vendors interpret it as a connected delivery tricycle with tracking and dashboards. The final specification is an enclosed pedal-powered command center with solar power, a satellite dish, a drone and a coffee maker. The wide final panel reveals the actual need: a simple wire grocery basket on the ordinary green bicycle she already owned.