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  "slug": "arphie",
  "normalized_name": "arphie",
  "name": "Arphie",
  "vendor_url": "arphie.ai",
  "category": "proposals-deals",
  "what_it_does": "AI-native RFP/RFx/security-questionnaire response software, positioned as a faster-drafting alternative/competitor to Loopio and Responsive.",
  "ai_features": "Core product is explicitly AI-drafting-first (auto-answering RFP/questionnaire content from a knowledge base) - the category's newer, \"AI-native\" entrant rather than an established platform with AI bolted on; depth of the underlying model not independently verified.",
  "mcp_status": "official",
  "mcp_url": "referenced via pricing/product pages describing an \"Arphie MCP\" plan; no distinct standalone MCP docs URL or GitHub repo was independently located beyond the pricing mention - treat with the same caution as DealHub's entry above, logged as official on the strength of a specific named, priced product line rather than a confirmed public technical spec.",
  "mcp_auth": "unknown",
  "api_gate": "paid, usage-based for MCP specifically. Core RFP platform uses \"concurrent project-based\" custom pricing (charges scale with how many RFPs/questionnaires are active at once, not per-seat) with no published rate card. The MCP plan specifically is priced at $50/month plus $0.05 per answered question - notably the same $50/mo base as Responsive's MCP pricing, suggesting a shared MCP-hosting/billing pattern across RFP vendors worth investigating further.",
  "revops_role": "AI-native RFP response layer, direct competitor to Loopio and Responsive, differentiated mainly on drafting speed and a transparently usage-priced MCP tier.",
  "tier": "RESEARCHED",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-24",
  "sources": "https://www.arphie.ai/, https://autorfp.ai/blog/arphie-pricing, https://www.arphie.ai/blog/best-ai-tools-rfx-response-automation-software",
  "notes": "FLAG: the \"$50/mo + per-answer usage\" MCP pricing pattern appearing identically at both Responsive and Arphie (two direct competitors) is worth a dedicated follow-up - either a coincidence, a category-wide pricing convention, or both vendors reselling the same underlying MCP-hosting infrastructure. 2026-09-07: LAW 1 FLAG, NOT DOWNGRADED. A repo finder searched GitHub (\"Arphie mcp\", owners arphie and arphie-ai), npm, PyPI and the official MCP registry and found nothing, and probes of https://mcp.arphie.ai/ and https://mcp.arphie.ai/mcp did not answer an MCP initialize. What the official claim actually rests on: a pricing-tier mention on the vendor site, with no standalone MCP docs page - the finder called it the weakest official claim in the set. A human should decide whether it survives law 1. 2026-09-12 (P6-04 repo sweep): LAW 1 FLAG RE-CHECKED, STILL STANDS, STATUS DELIBERATELY NOT CHANGED because that decision was already handed to a human. Measured today: the vendor's own GitHub org is Arphie-AI, first-party on profile-site evidence (its profile site is arphie.ai), and it has 0 public repositories. The official MCP registry returns 0 servers for the search \"arphie\". A GitHub repository search for \"arphie\" returns only third-party work (xinxuxin/arphie, api-evangelist/arphie, heywood-dev/arphie-customer-health and similar), none of it Arphie's own. So there is still no URL of any kind behind this official claim, and this remains the only entry in the directory carrying official with nothing parseable in mcp_url. Under SCHEMA law 1 that reads unknown rather than official, and the change is a human's to make, not this pass's.",
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    "https://autorfp.ai/blog/arphie-pricing",
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  "cli_checked_on": "2026-09-27",
  "github_org": "Arphie-AI",
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    "url": "search q=Arphie",
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    "detail": "account website arphie.ai has the vendor's domain",
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