Redhand Advisors

RFP Software Built for Consultants: How Redhand Advisors Scales with Olive

Discover how Patrick O'Neill, president at Redhand Advisors, transformed their service delivery using Olive. By leveraging Olive's powerful tools, Redhand streamlined processes, enhanced client collaboration, and achieved a remarkable 30% reduction in project delivery time. Learn how this shift toward productized services is driving efficiency and client satisfaction.

Olive transformed our consulting process into a collaborative platform where clients actively participate from start to finish.

Company Profile

Industry: Consulting and Analyst Services

Redhand Advisors is the leading provider of consulting services and market research for the insurance and risk management technology (RiskTech) market. Patrick O’Neill and his team offer advisory and consulting services for both buyer and providers of risk tech, regularly compiling the industry standard for RMIS in their annual RMIS report.

Case Study

Olive is purpose built software for consultants.

“The challenge for consulting firms is that RFP software solutions are really solely focused on procurement, and I would say even more on the seller side than on the buyer and consultant side,” explains O’Neill. “There’s so much work that goes into getting to that point, from discovery to needs assessment requirements, and then ultimately to RFP process.”

With traditional RFP software solutions prioritizing what O’Neill refers to as “seller-side processes”, this leaves consultancies with a significant gap in tools designed for their workflows. 

With Olive, Redhand are finally able to transpose their proven system into Olive to automate and streamline the process from discovery, through vendor analysis, and recommendation.

After years of searching for the right solution, Olive’s platform and founder engagement have created an unmatched consulting technology experience.

Olive enables modern consultants to productize their services.

In today’s competitive world, staying ahead of the curve from a technology perspective is essential. One way to do this is by productizing your service.

For consultancies like Redhand Advisors, disconnected systems made it challenging to leverage historical data—critical for delivering tailored insights and building on past expertise.

“All our work—advisory reports, vendor evaluations, and project data—lived in separate spreadsheets, Word documents, and PDFs. It didn’t give us the opportunity to take advantage of the knowledge and experience we’d built over 10 years,” O’Neill explained.


With Olive, Redhand are able to leverage surveys to gather stakeholder insights, collaboration tools to work with suppliers and stakeholders on fit analysis, and AI to automate the data organizaton and create meaningful customer value in an instant.

Olive allows Redhand to scale and enter new markets.

I wouldn’t be able to do all these projects if I didn’t have Olive.

Olive has allowed Redhand Advisors to scale in a way they would not have been able to achieve without the increased efficiency delivered by the platform.

Not only are they able to take on more business directly, but they are also able to offer their services to the mid market customers who previously would have been priced out. This has opened up a whole new market for them and enabled them to grow market share within their category.

Up and running in 48 hours with a seamless onboarding experience.

Redhand were able to get up and running with Olive in 48 hours thanks to a seamless onboarding experience from their CS team. The ability to go from spreadsheets and word docs to a single platform in 48 hours was instrumental to Redhand’s success with Olive. Change management can always be scary, but with Olive, you’re up and running in no time, with minimal change to your existing workflow.

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