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Tribble: cost, fit and limits
Tribble is a response and sales assistant platform made by Tribble, Inc. that answers RFPs, due diligence questionnaires and security questionnaires from a governed answer library called The Brain, and extends that library to sales call preparation.
What to know first
Tribble has two products, Respond and Engage, sharing one answer library. Respond handles RFPs, DDQs and security questionnaires and is priced per project, where each document counts as one. Engage handles call preparation, recording and CRM notes, and is priced per user per month. No price is published for either. The pages read did not state a hosting location or a retention period.
Tribble at a glance
| Maker | Tribble, Inc., Not stated on the vendor pages |
|---|---|
| Free plan | No |
| Entry price | Quote only |
| API access | No |
| Category | Best AI RFP Software in 2026, rank 7 of 12 |
| Website | tribble.ai |
Who Tribble is best for
Revenue teams that want one answer library
The Brain feeds both questionnaire answers and sales call preparation, so product and security facts are kept once instead of in two systems.
Teams with scattered subject matter experts
Answers the system is unsure of are routed to the right expert, who can review them in Slack or Microsoft Teams without opening the platform.
Response managers who return answers in buyer formats
Respond exports to the buyer's Word, Excel, PDF or portal format, so the finished file matches what the customer asked for.
Tribble plans and pricing
| Plan | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Respond | Not published (priced per project) | RFP, DDQ and security questionnaire responses, Word, Excel, PDF and portal exports, and unlimited people helping to answer each project. |
| Engage | Not published (priced per user, per month) | Sales call preparation, Scribe call recording and notes, CRM updates, and answers delivered in Slack and Teams for sales staff. |
| The Brain | Included with both products | A library of approved answers with the source and the owner shown on each one, shared by Respond and Engage. |
Checked November 2026.
What Tribble does
- The Brain
- A shared library of approved answers where each answer shows its source and its owner, which lets a reviewer see where a statement came from and who maintains it.
- Per-project Respond
- Respond counts each RFP, DDQ or questionnaire as one project, which makes cost follow the number of documents rather than the number of people who help answer them.
- Expert routing
- Questions the system is unsure of go to the right subject matter expert, who reviews through Slack or Microsoft Teams, which keeps experts out of yet another login.
- Format-matched export
- Answers are exported in the buyer's own Word, Excel, PDF or portal format, which saves the manual reformatting that often delays a submission on the last day.
- Engage call tools
- Engage records calls with Scribe, drafts follow-ups and CRM notes, and prepares reps for calls from the same library that feeds questionnaire answers. Because the Brain sits behind both, an answer fixed once is corrected in both places.
How Tribble handles your data
Tribble's About page says customer data never trains shared AI models and that the company is SOC 2 Type II compliant. The Brain is described as a governed answer layer in which each answer shows its source and owner. The pages read did not state a hosting region or a retention period, and did not describe how a customer exports the library on leaving, so those questions belong in the first call with the vendor.
Where Tribble falls short in practice
- No published prices. Respond is priced per project and Engage per user per month, but neither figure is published, so the budget cannot be sized before a sales conversation.
- Two cost drivers. Respond follows project count and Engage follows sales headcount, so a company that buys both pays on two different meters that grow for unrelated reasons.
- Hosting and retention unstated. The pages read do not name a hosting location or a retention period, which a security review will need before any customer data is loaded.
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Tribble: common questions
How is Tribble priced?
Respond is priced per project, where each RFP, DDQ or security questionnaire counts as one. Engage is priced per user per month. The Brain is included with both. No figures are published on the pricing page, so you need a quote that matches your document count and sales headcount.
What is The Brain in Tribble?
The Brain is Tribble's shared library of approved answers. Each answer shows its source and its owner, and the library feeds both Respond for questionnaires and Engage for sales calls. It is included with both products, so you do not buy it separately from either.
Does Tribble train models on customer data?
The About page says customer data never trains shared AI models. It also lists SOC 2 Type II compliance. The pages read did not state a hosting region or retention period, so ask for both and for the current audit report before loading data.
Can experts answer questions in Slack or Teams on Tribble?
Yes. Tribble lists Slack and Microsoft Teams access for expert review, and Respond routes answers it is unsure of to the right subject matter expert. Respond also counts unlimited people helping to answer a project, so reviewer numbers do not change the price.
What does Tribble Engage do beyond RFPs?
Engage prepares sales calls, records them with Scribe, writes notes, drafts follow-ups and updates the CRM, and it delivers answers in Slack and Teams. It is priced per user per month, so cost depends on how many sales staff would use it daily.