Cost volumes live in Excel. Capability briefings live in PowerPoint. For most GovCon teams, the documents that win contracts are built in Microsoft Office and then pieced together with intelligence pulled from elsewhere.

That round-trip ends today. Dash is now in PowerPoint and Excel. Capture, proposal, contract, and pricing teams can ask it anything, with answers grounded in their own data library and cited to a source. They can do this all without leaving the document they're building.

Why we built this

Generic AI assistants drop into Word, PowerPoint, and Excel and write plausible-sounding text. That's not the problem in GovCon. The problem is that "plausible" gets you a non-compliant volume, a cost basis you can't defend, or a past-performance reference that doesn't exist. Capture managers don't need another writer. They need an agent who knows their pricing, their wins, their team, and their compliance posture and refuses to make anything up.

Dash already does that inside the GovDash workspace. With this release, the same agent sits in the side pane of PowerPoint and Excel, with the same data library, citations, and guardrails. You don't leave Office to use it.

You can link the assistant to a specific opportunity, proposal, or award. Once a document is linked, every answer Dash gives, and every value it writes is scoped to that record. No rooting through search, no pasting URLs, no risk of pulling the wrong contract's rates. Open a deck for the USAF bid, link it once, and the assistant in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel all stay in sync.

Grounded by default

Every value Dash writes (every rate, every name, every clause) links to the source in your data library. If Dash doesn't have a source, Dash says so. No hallucinations or fabricated past performance.

Capture and BD teams: turn the capture plan into the deck

For capture and BD, the strategic thinking already lives in the capture plan: customer profile, competitive landscape, win themes, teaming, call plan, price-to-win. What the team actually presents at gate reviews, customer touches, and partner meetings are capture and solutioning decks built off that plan. Today, that means rebuilding the same intel into slides every time the audience changes.

Dash reads the capture plan in your data library, along with the linked opportunity record and prior touch history, then drafts the deck against your slide format. Ask for a solutioning deck for the AFWERX bid, and Dash pulls the solution approach, discriminators, and teaming construct straight from the capture plan, mapping each to the right slide. Ask for a capture review deck, and it pulls the competitor profile, capability matrix, and capture strategy from the same source.

Pricing teams: stop rebuilding cost volumes

For our pricing customers, the first job is the table. Cost volumes are nested, sometimes seven or eight levels deep. Direct labor, by FY, by labor category, by year, with G&A and fringe and fee stacked on top. Dash now understands that structure.

Highlight a range and Dash reads the H1, H2, and H3 header hierarchy in the active workbook before it answers. When you ask for FY2 option-year pricing for a Senior Engineer, Dash knows that row belongs under Direct Labor → Senior Engineer → FY2 and writes the formula that maps to it. Below the table-aware mockup, you'll see how Dash describes its read of a real DOT cost volume.

Once the structure is mapped, formulas come next. Dash builds and audits the GovCon math you actually price with. Fully burdened rates, G&A, fringe, fee, escalation, and multi-year option years, using rates from your past performance and current GSA schedules. Every formula is auditable in the cell, so anyone on your team (or the CO) can verify it.

Proposal teams: build the deck on the data, not the other way around

Capability briefings, orals decks, and post-award kickoffs almost always start from a solicitation, PWS, or SOO that's already in GovDash. Dash now reads those documents and maps requirements directly to your slide format, so the slide you're building is grounded in the requirement you're answering, not a memory of a similar one.

Past performance, win themes, rate history, and capability statements come from the same library that powers your proposal volumes. The mockups below show the two interactions that the proposal teams reach for most. Highlight a line of consultant jargon and Dash rewrites it into a specific, citable claim, turning "best-of-breed enterprise-grade cyber solutions" into "zero-trust controls accredited at three DHS components." Describe an architecture, and Dash generates a diagram labeled with components and flows and drops it onto the active slide.

How it works

Dash for PowerPoint and Excel installs as a native Microsoft 365 add-in. Sign in with your existing Entra ID and the side pane connects to your GovDash workspace. From the first message, Dash has read access to your data library: past performance, resumes, rate cards, win themes, capability statements, and the solicitation documents you're working from.

Everything Dash writes is grounded in that library and cited back to a source. The side pane shows the source under each response, so contributors and contracting officers can verify any number, name, or claim. If a rate or reference is not in your library yet, Dash tells you that, instead of inventing one.

Office coverage

The add-ins run on the Microsoft 365 web, Office desktop on Windows and Mac, and Office for iPad. The coverage tile in the section above shows the four surfaces side by side: the same Dash agent, the same data, the same side pane, regardless of which device a teammate opens the deck on.

Your GovCon AI teammate

Most of the work that wins a contract still happens in Microsoft tools. Dash now happens there too.

Book a demo and we'll run it inside Excel or PowerPoint, not a slide deck about them. Want the bigger picture first? See everything Dash does, or browse the full integrations list.