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# Send the proposal from your address

*Published 2026-09-21*

ChatGPT can draft the proposal. The text sits in the thread. There is no address to send from, and no file the next chat opens. Copying that draft into your own mail is still you sending it.

Your AI assistant can write the proposal into a file, send it from your address, and keep the copy.

## What is still on you

Every proposal has a customer, a scope, a price, and a start date. You write it in chat, then paste it into mail. If the price changes, you hunt the last version. If someone else on the team sends a revision, they rebuild it too.

ChatGPT can schedule a prompt that rewrites the pitch. That still wakes a model every run. Drafting is easy. Sending from your address, and keeping one file the team opens next, is still on you.

## What your AI assistant does

It writes the proposal into Files. It sends the mail from an address you own. Replies come back to the same inbox. You ask for a price change or a new line. It updates the same file and can resend.

The next person on your team opens that file. They do not ask you to forward yesterday's chat.

## What this is not

This is not a new proposal tool you learn first. It is the send you already do by hand. Your AI assistant keeps the file and the mailbox.

## Hand it off

Copy this into your AI assistant:

Add Sails from https://sails.app/start. Write a proposal for \[client\] at \[company\]. Job: \[scope\]. Price: \[amount\]. Start: \[date\]. Save it under files/proposals/ and email it to \[their email\] from my Sails Mail address. Keep the file so I can edit it or resend later. Use Files and Mail. Ask me anything you need before you start.

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