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PROJECT PROPOSAL · [Project name]

Prepared for: [client] · By: [you] · Date: [date] · Valid until: [date]

1. Executive summary (one paragraph)

The problem in the client’s words, your approach in one line, the outcome with a number if you have one, the price, the start date. A busy decision-maker should be able to say yes from this paragraph alone.

2. The problem (what we heard)

[Their situation and its cost, in their language. Quote the discovery call. This section proves you listened.]

3. Approach & solution

[What you’ll do and why this way. Phases if useful. Keep the method at one level of detail above “trust us”.]

4. Timeline & milestones

[Start] → [milestone] → [milestone] → [delivery date]

5. Budget

Item or phase Price

Total: [amount] ([payment terms: e.g. 40% to start, 60% on delivery])

6. Why us (brief)

[1-2 relevant results with numbers. Not your life story.]

7. Next steps

[What saying yes looks like: sign, pay deposit, kickoff date.]


Project proposal template · made by readywhen — readywhen quotes the call and prices from your rate card, so the proposal goes out the same day.