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AI Automation Platform vs. RFP Response Software

When evaluating automation platforms, Cassidy and Loopio often surface as contenders for streamlining RFPs and proposal management. However, these platforms differ significantly in their scope and flexibility. Loopio is a narrowly focused RFP response tool, providing structured, predefined workflows specifically built around proposal generation. In contrast, Cassidy is a powerful, contextual AI automation platform designed to dynamically adapt to your unique enterprise processes, far beyond just RFP responses.

Cassidy not only accelerates RFP responses but automates complex, context-driven workflows across sales, customer support, operations, HR, and beyond. Loopio’s rigid structure may speed up repetitive proposals but lacks adaptability, restricting its usefulness for enterprises with specific needs for the RFP processes.

Feature Comparison

Feature Cassidy Loopio
Automation Approach ✅ Contextual, AI-driven workflows tailored to unique processes ❌ Rigid, predefined proposal workflows only
AI Flexibility ✅ Adaptive AI that learns and evolves dynamically ❌ Static AI limited to content retrieval and reuse
Customization ✅ Fully customizable automation based on your unique needs ❌ Limited customization; forces users into preset formats
Real-time AI Assistants ✅ Interactive AI assistants embedded in Slack, Teams, Chrome ❌ No interactive AI; basic platform-based content retrieval
Knowledge Integration ✅ Unified knowledge base usable across multiple business functions ❌ Siloed RFP-specific content not accessible enterprise-wide
Enterprise Onboarding ✅ Dedicated onboarding, ongoing training, and personalized support ❌ Limited onboarding focused solely on proposal teams

Contextual AI Automation vs. Static Content Lookup

Cassidy’s AI-powered automation goes far beyond simple content retrieval. Its contextual AI understands and dynamically adapts to your business processes, continuously improving workflows by extracting information, generating context-aware responses, and automating complex tasks end-to-end.

Loopio’s automation is essentially limited to suggesting previously stored answers from its content library. This static approach requires significant manual upkeep and struggles to handle non-standard or complex RFP scenarios, often forcing users back into tedious manual work.

Custom Workflows Tailored to Your Enterprise

No two businesses handle proposals or processes the same way. Cassidy recognizes this and provides highly customizable AI workflows precisely adapted to your company’s specific requirements. You can define your processes, tone, and even AI behavior, creating workflows that perfectly match your operational style.

Loopio, however, restricts teams to predefined structures. Its limited customization options mean that if your proposals vary significantly, your team might frequently revert to manual interventions, reducing the platform's value.

Unified Enterprise Knowledge

Cassidy’s enterprise-wide knowledge base centralizes your critical business content—whether proposal answers, customer interactions, internal policies, or sales materials—in one intelligent repository. This interconnected knowledge powers all of Cassidy’s automation tools, ensuring consistency and continuous improvement.

Loopio’s knowledge management is isolated to RFP-related content, creating data silos and limiting your enterprise’s ability to leverage insights across different departments or workflows.

Interactive AI Assistants Where You Work

Cassidy embeds intelligent, interactive AI assistants directly into Slack, Microsoft Teams, Chrome browsers, and web applications. This enables employees across your enterprise to access real-time, contextual support seamlessly within their daily workflow.

Loopio provides no interactive AI assistance outside its own interface, restricting content lookup and limiting employee engagement and accessibility.

Scalable AI for Enterprise Teams

Cassidy prioritizes scalable enterprise adoption with comprehensive onboarding, dedicated account management, ongoing training, and personalized support. This approach ensures quick implementation, team-wide adoption, and continuous optimization across various business units.

Loopio’s onboarding and scalability are limited strictly to proposal teams, with minimal ongoing support or adaptability to broader organizational needs.

Cassidy: The AI Platform Built for Your Entire Business

Loopio offers efficiency strictly within rigid, predefined proposal workflows. Cassidy, however, delivers expansive, contextual AI automation that adapts to your unique processes, breaks down knowledge silos, and supports dynamic, enterprise-wide workflows. Cassidy represents the smarter long-term investment, equipping your business for success beyond RFPs.

Ready to unlock the full potential of AI-driven automation?

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Cassidy vs Responsive

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AI Automation Platform vs RFP-Specific Software

Most RFP tools, like Responsive (formerly RFPIO), follow a rigid structure that helps teams fill out questionnaires and manage proposal content. However, no two RFP processes are the same. Cassidy takes a different approach by allowing teams to build custom AI-powered workflows tailored to their exact needs. This flexibility extends beyond RFPs to sales enablement, customer support, and other business functions.

Instead of locking teams into a fixed system, Cassidy adapts to how your team works and ensures AI-powered automations get smarter over time. With Cassidy, RFP automation is just one piece of a larger AI strategy. Your knowledge base fuels multiple workflows, including drafting sales emails, triaging support tickets, and enriching CRM data. Rather than siloing knowledge across different AI tools, Cassidy keeps everything in one system, making it easier to scale automation across the entire organization.

Here is a breakdown of how Cassidy and Responsive compare and why a flexible AI platform is the smarter investment for enterprises.

Feature Cassidy (AI Automation Platform) Responsive (RFP Response Software)
Core Focus ✅ AI-driven workflows across teams (Sales, Support, Ops) ❌ RFP and proposal automation only
Built-in AI ✅ AI powers every step, learns over time ⚠️ AI assists RFPs, but workflows are rigid
Custom Workflows ✅ Fully customizable for each team’s needs ❌ Predefined structure, limited flexibility
AI Assistants ✅ Interactive AI assistants in Slack, Teams, Chrome ❌ No real-time AI assistants, just lookup AI
Ease of Setup ✅ No-code, deploys quickly for immediate impact ⚠️ Requires content library setup, structured onboarding
Knowledge Management ✅ Centralized knowledge base for multiple workflows ❌ Siloed RFP content library, separate from other tools
Scalability ✅ Adapts to new use cases beyond RFPs ❌ Purpose-built for proposals, not broader AI automation
Best For ✅ Enterprises needing flexible AI-powered automation ✅ Organizations with high RFP volumes needing structured responses

AI That Adapts to Your Workflow, Not the Other Way Around

Every company handles RFPs differently, yet many tools take a one-size-fits-all approach. Responsive is designed around structured proposal workflows that help teams quickly fill in responses using an existing content library. This speeds up the process but follows a predefined structure, requiring teams to work within a set system.

Cassidy takes a more flexible approach. Instead of following a fixed template, Cassidy allows teams to customize every part of the process. AI-generated responses, workflow steps, and automation rules can all be tailored to match the unique way each team operates. Whether automating RFPs, summarizing documents, or handling customer support inquiries, Cassidy adapts to your specific needs.

With Cassidy, AI becomes a true automation engine that evolves with your business. Teams can:
✅ Customize AI outputs to ensure responses match their brand and tone
✅ Choose from multiple AI models like GPT-4 and Claude for different types of tasks
✅ Build workflows that combine AI-powered data extraction, analysis, and response generation

Responsive is built for proposal teams, while Cassidy offers a broader AI-powered automation platform that scales across multiple workflows. For enterprises looking to expand AI beyond RFPs, Cassidy provides a more flexible and future-proof solution.

AI Assistants vs. Lookup-Based AI

One of the biggest differences between Cassidy and Responsive is how teams interact with AI.

Cassidy provides fully customizable AI Assistants that can be trained for any specific task. Whether acting as a content copilot that ensures responses are in your exact brand voice or an AI that automatically replies to emails for your sales team, Cassidy’s Assistants adapt to each team’s needs. They can be embedded in Slack, Microsoft Teams, Chrome, CRMs, and more, allowing employees to ask questions, generate content, or complete tasks instantly. Unlike rigid chatbots, these Assistants understand context, pull from company knowledge, and take action in real time.

Responsive’s AI works more like a smart lookup tool. Instead of a free-form assistant that users can chat with, Responsive’s AI is designed to retrieve RFP content when proposal managers need it. When working on an RFP, the AI searches the content library, suggests relevant answers, and can auto-fill responses. This makes it useful for quickly handling repetitive questions, but it doesn’t function as an AI assistant that can handle broader business tasks.

While Responsive’s AI is embedded in the RFP process, it lacks the flexibility of Cassidy’s Assistants, which can be custom-built for different roles and deployed across multiple workflows. Whether teams need a sales AI to draft outreach emails, a support bot to answer customer FAQs, or a compliance assistant to review policies, Cassidy provides the AI-powered copilots that teams can rely on every day.

Enterprise Knowledge: A Smart System for All AI Tools, Not Just RFPs

AI is only as powerful as the knowledge it can access. Cassidy gives enterprises a single, centralized knowledge base that connects documents, wikis, CRM data, and support tickets to power multiple AI-driven workflows. Instead of siloing data across different AI tools, Cassidy lets teams build and deploy AI assistants for sales, support, operations, and more, all pulling from the same up-to-date system.

Responsive’s knowledge is built only for RFPs. Its Content Library stores past responses and approved Q&A pairs, ensuring accuracy for proposals but limiting its usefulness elsewhere. Other teams can’t easily repurpose this data, forcing companies to rely on separate tools for sales emails, customer support, and internal workflows, creating more silos instead of reducing them.

With Cassidy, knowledge isn’t just stored, it is actively used to automate processes across teams. Enterprises can quickly spin up new AI tools without rebuilding from scratch, making AI smarter, more consistent, and easier to manage at scale.

Choose AI That Grows With Your Business

Cassidy is built for enterprises that want AI-powered automation across multiple teams and workflows, not just RFPs. It provides the flexibility to build custom AI assistants and workflows that scale with your organization, ensuring knowledge stays connected and automation gets smarter over time.

Responsive is a strong choice for companies that need a structured tool specifically for RFPs, proposals, and sales questionnaires. However, if your goal is to consolidate AI efforts, avoid data silos, and automate more than just one function, Cassidy offers a more powerful and future-proof solution.

 10 Ways Your Sales Team NEEDS to Be Using AI Right Now
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10 Ways Your Sales Team NEEDS to Be Using AI Right Now

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The future of sales is not a distant vision; it's unfolding in real-time, driven by AI's capability to refine and personalize every interaction.

At Cassidy, we're at the forefront of this evolution with contextual automation—a method that doesn't just look to the future but actively shapes the present. By leveraging this technology, sales teams today must embrace AI not only to keep pace but to lead in an already transformed market.

Our platform ensures your sales strategy is not just reactive but proactive, turning every sales challenge into an opportunity. Let's delve into how AI is already making a difference, in the sales world, and how tools like Cassidy can help you every step of the way.

Prepare and Research Meeting Invitees Before Sales Calls

Walking into a sales call unprepared is no longer an option. Cassidy’s AI-powered workflows ensure your team is equipped with detailed, actionable insights about meeting invitees before every call. This workflow does the heavy lifting for you by gathering data like company overviews, recent company news, and detailed information about the invitees.

Cassidy’s AI even dives into LinkedIn profiles to provide a comprehensive look at the organization and its stakeholders. All this information is compiled into a shareable document that can be accessed by your entire team, ensuring everyone is aligned and prepared. Plus, it integrates seamlessly with your calendar tools, so you have everything ready to go before the meeting starts.

For example, before a call, Cassidy can provide a summary of the prospect’s recent achievements or challenges, helping your team tailor the conversation and demonstrate value from the first interaction. It’s an all-in-one preparation tool that sets your sales calls up for success.

Deal Tracking Efficiency

Sales teams often struggle with the time-consuming task of sifting through vast amounts of data to find relevant customer information. That's where Cassidy's workflows come in, allowing you to pull up all the details on a customer or a deal in just seconds, thanks to AI.

This feature enables you and your team to instantly search through records, helping to get right to the point, personalize your approach, and keep the sales process moving smoothly. It's like having a super-efficient assistant dedicated to making your life easier.

For example, before calling a client, you can quickly search for their name in the system. Within seconds, you'll have access to their purchase history, recent interactions, and any notes from previous meetings, allowing you to tailor your conversation effectively.

Find Key Decision-Makers to Multithread Sales Deals

Finding the right decision-makers can be the difference between closing a deal and letting it slip away. Cassidy’s simplifies the process by identifying key stakeholders and influencers within a target organization.

Instead of manually researching or guessing who holds decision-making power, Cassidy analyzes CRM data, email communications, and external sources to provide you with a clear map of key players. This enables your team to craft targeted messages that resonate with each stakeholder, streamlining the sales process.

For example, if a deal involves multiple departments, Cassidy highlights which contacts to prioritize and how to address their specific concerns. This insight empowers your team to build stronger connections and accelerate deals without unnecessary delays.

Automatically Enrich New Leads

Finding and understanding new leads can be a daunting task, often requiring extensive research to gather all the necessary details. With Cassidy's AI, this process is automated, allowing you and your team to instantly enrich new leads with relevant information.

By integrating with various data sources, Cassidy's workflows automatically add valuable insights like job titles, company details, and contact information to your CRM. This feature ensures that when you engage with a new lead, you're equipped with a comprehensive profile, enabling more personalized and effective outreach.

For instance, when a new lead enters your system, instead of manually searching for their background, the AI enriches their profile, providing you with the context to tailor your communication, thereby improving conversion rates and enhancing your sales strategy's efficiency.

Streamline Team Responses with Verified Answers

Consistency and accuracy are crucial when responding to client questions, especially during RFP processes. Cassidy’s Answer Hub ensures that your team always delivers approved, verified responses to common queries, saving time and boosting credibility.

This feature centralizes all your organization’s approved answers in one place, making it easy for reps to find and share the right information instantly. No more scrambling to verify details or waiting on approvals—Cassidy’s AI ensures that everyone on your team is aligned.

So if you're ever in a situation where a client requests specific technical details or compliance information, reps can quickly search the Answer Hub to pull up the correct response, ensuring accuracy and consistency in their communication. This not only speeds up the sales process but also builds trust with clients, showing that your team is organized and dependable.

Automatically Transcribe, Save, and Query Meeting Notes

After a sales meeting, capturing and organizing notes can be time-consuming, often leading to missed insights or follow-up opportunities. Cassidy's AI simplifies this by automatically transcribing, saving, and enabling you to query meeting notes.

This feature ensures that all discussions, decisions, and action items from your meetings are recorded without manual effort. You and your team can then easily search through these notes for specific details or follow-ups, enhancing your ability to recall important points and personalize future interactions.

For example, post-meeting, the AI transcribes the conversation, saving it in your system where you can later ask for information like "What was the client's concern about pricing?" or "What follow-up was promised?" This automation not only saves time but also ensures that no detail is lost, making your sales process more organized and responsive.

Create Personalized Cold Emails that Stand Out

Cold emails are only effective when they feel anything but cold. Cassidy’s AI leverages LinkedIn insights, CRM data, and other sources to create hyper-personalized emails that capture attention and increase response rates.

The workflow analyzes key details about your prospect, like their role, company updates, and recent achievements, and crafts tailored outreach messages that feel authentic. For example, instead of sending a generic “just checking in” email, Cassidy generates a message that highlights the recipient’s recent LinkedIn activity or a relevant company milestone, positioning your sales team as informed and relatable.

Even better, Cassidy’s AI ensures these personalized emails are ready to send with minimal effort, saving your team valuable time while maintaining a high-touch approach. With smarter, data-driven outreach, you can turn cold leads into engaged prospects.

Personalize Sales Meeting Follow-Up Emails

The follow-up after a sales meeting can make or break the relationship. Cassidy’s AI ensures every follow-up email feels thoughtful, relevant, and timely, keeping the momentum going with your prospects.

This workflow uses meeting notes, CRM data, and insights from the conversation to draft tailored emails that highlight key discussion points, address objections, and outline next steps. For example, if pricing was a concern during the meeting, Cassidy’s AI suggests a follow-up email that includes a breakdown of value-add features or a link to relevant case studies.

The tool also automates the process, saving your sales team time while maintaining a high level of personalization. With smarter follow-ups, Cassidy helps your team stay top-of-mind and move deals forward faster.

Auto-Completing Security Questionnaires

Navigating through security questionnaires can be a significant hurdle in finalizing sales, often requiring extensive time and expertise to complete accurately. With Cassidy's AI, this process is streamlined, enabling you and your team to auto-complete these questionnaires with ease.

By integrating with your existing security documents, knowledge base, and other resources, Cassidy's workflows automatically fill in the answers, ensuring compliance and accuracy. This feature turns what could be a laborious task into a swift operation, allowing you to focus on closing deals rather than paperwork.

For example, when a new security questionnaire is required, instead of manually searching for responses, the AI quickly pulls the necessary information, completing the form in seconds. This efficiency not only speeds up the sales process but also reduces the risk of errors, making your sales cycle smoother and more secure.

Give Sales Team the Ability to Answer Technical Questions

Handling technical questions doesn’t have to be exclusive to engineers or IT specialists. Cassidy’s AI bridges the gap by enabling non-technical support and sales reps to confidently answer complex technical inquiries.

This feature pulls from your company’s existing knowledge base, integrating seamlessly with tools like Notion, Jira, Confluence, and internal wikis to provide accurate, approved responses in seconds. For example, when a prospect asks a detailed question about product integration or security protocols, Cassidy’s AI suggests the right answer instantly, saving time and preventing delays.

This workflow also ensures responses are aligned with RFP standards and company-approved language, reducing the risk of errors or miscommunication. By equipping your team with these tools, Cassidy enables everyone to contribute to technical discussions without requiring deep expertise, improving responsiveness and fostering trust with prospects.

Use Cassidy to help boost your Sales Performance

Ready to see how Cassidy can transform your sales strategy, streamline workflows, and help your team close deals faster? Start your journey with Cassidy today and experience the future of sales firsthand. Try for free today

Build a World-Class CS Team with AI-Enhanced Support Enablement
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Build a World-Class CS Team with AI-Enhanced Support Enablement

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Customer support teams face countless challenges every day: handling high ticket volumes, answering tough questions, and maintaining meaningful interactions across platforms. It’s a high-pressure job that requires efficiency, adaptability, and tools that work as hard as they do.

With all the stress and mental energy it takes to juggle these challenges, AI can be a powerful partner for support teams. Not a replacement, but a trusted resource that works alongside you and your team. By handling the heavy lifting, AI allows support teams to focus on what they do best: building connections and delivering great customer experiences.

In this blog, we’ll show how Cassidy equips support teams to tackle key enablement tasks — streamlining processes, building impactful resources, and delivering exceptional customer experiences.

Clear Out Tickets With On-Demand Answers to Questions

High ticket volumes are every support team’s nightmare. Maybe it’s a bug that’s disrupting users, or an unexpected outage that sends panic through your customer base.

Whatever the cause, tickets pile up fast, and your team is left trying to triage the chaos. Everyone’s scrambling to prioritize the most pressing issues, but with so many demands coming in at once, it’s easy for important requests to fall through the cracks.

You don't want to get to a point where customers get frustrated, agents feel burned out, and the pressure only mounts.

In moments like these, teams do their best: manually assigning tickets, answering repetitive questions, and leaning on internal experts for technical issues. It works for a while. But when volumes spike, manual processes slow things down, agents lose time searching for answers, and the team struggles to keep up.

This is where AI can make all the difference.

Cassidy takes the pressure off by drafting accurate, context-rich replies to customer emails and support tickets automatically. Powered by your knowledge base, it ensures every response is not only timely but also reliable. From answering common questions to tackling more complex issues, Cassidy equips your team with the tools to stay ahead of mounting tickets, delivering thoughtful solutions that keep customers happy and operations running smoothly.

How else can Cassidy help you clear out tickets

  • Triage smarter, not harder: Prioritize tickets based on urgency, sentiment, and complexity to keep critical issues front and center.
  • Support agents in real-Time: Provide instant, accurate answers from your documentation to help resolve technical issues faster.
  • Chrome extension to help with responses: Use Cassidy’s AI-powered assistant directly in your browser to draft replies and access critical information without ever switching tabs.

Ticket surges are inevitable, but they don’t have to overwhelm your team. By combining human expertise with AI-powered support, Cassidy ensures that even the busiest times are manageable, allowing your team to stay calm, focused, and ready to deliver the quality service your customers deserve.

Compile All Information From Your Support Center

No matter how experienced your support agents are, they’re bound to face tricky questions that require digging through resources for answers. A customer might ask about an edge-case bug, a rarely used feature, or a complex integration. When agents can’t find the information they need quickly, the delay adds frustration — for both them and the customer.

Traditionally, teams handle this by leaning on engineers or internal experts for help.

While this can work in a pinch, it’s not scalable.

Agents lose valuable time chasing down answers, customers are left waiting longer, and the overall efficiency of your support operation takes a hit.

This is where Cassidy steps in to bridge the gap. Instead of leaving agents to fend for themselves or rely on others, Cassidy pulls real-time, accurate information from your technical documentation, knowledge base, and other resources.

Whether it’s troubleshooting steps or product-specific guidance, Cassidy ensures agents have the answers they need—instantly. By turning scattered information into actionable insights, Cassidy empowers your team to resolve even the toughest customer inquiries with confidence and speed.

Ways Cassidy can help centralize your knowledge base.

  • Provide Instant Access to Documentation: Cassidy draws from your technical resources in real-time, giving agents the information they need without delays.
  • Create a Centralized Knowledge Hub: Consolidate scattered resources into a single, AI-accessible system so your team can find answers faster.

This means your team spends less time searching for answers and more time focusing on meaningful customer interactions. And as Cassidy learns from your existing processes, it continues to improve, providing even better support over time.

With Cassidy, your support team is no longer bogged down by the hunt for information. Instead, they’re equipped with the tools and insights they need to work smarter, handle complex issues with ease, and deliver an exceptional experience every time.

Creating Personalized Communication That Sound Like Your CS Team

Customers expect more than just fast responses—they want interactions that feel personal and relevant. Whether it’s a follow-up to a support inquiry, an email announcing a new feature, or even outreach on LinkedIn, personalization is what turns a basic interaction into a memorable experience.

Cassidy helps bridge this gap by equipping teams with the tools to craft personalized communications that feel human—without requiring hours of manual effort. From pulling key details like customer history and preferences to generating dynamic, context-aware messaging, Cassidy ensures every interaction feels authentic and on point.

Imagine announcing a feature update to your customers. Instead of sending a one-size-fits-all email, Cassidy can help you tailor messaging based on each customer’s previous interactions, product usage, or company size.

The result? Emails that resonate with your audience and make them feel seen. Or consider LinkedIn outreach—Cassidy can suggest personalized introductions that align with a client’s professional background and needs, ensuring your outreach stands out in a crowded inbox.

How Cassidy Supports Personalized Customer Interactions:

  • Dynamic Messaging for Any Channel: Generate tailored emails, chat responses, or outreach messages based on customer data.
  • Comprehensive Customer Insights: Pull from past interactions, product usage, and preferences to inform your communication strategy.
  • Consistency Across Platforms: Ensure your team’s voice and tone stay aligned, whether reaching out via email, LinkedIn, or chat.

Personalization doesn’t have to feel forced—or time-consuming. With Cassidy’s support, your team can create meaningful, tailored interactions at every stage of the customer journey, building stronger relationships and driving deeper engagement, one message at a time.

Endless Use-Cases for CS 

Customer support is about more than solving problems — it’s about fostering trust, delivering value, and enabling teams to thrive. Cassidy helps support teams achieve this by streamlining workflows, enhancing customer interactions, and providing tools to create impactful resources.

Whether it’s crafting personalized emails, generating FAQs, or pulling actionable insights from existing data, Cassidy empowers teams to focus on what matters most.

With seamless integration into your existing tools and features like real-time AI assistance, Cassidy centralizes information and simplifies processes. Agents can respond faster, create better enablement materials, and maintain consistent, high-quality interactions across every touchpoint.

Plain and simple: why Cassidy stands out:

  • Effortless Content Creation: Turn documentation into FAQs, training guides, and more with minimal effort.
  • Tailored Customer Messaging: Personalize communication for emails, outreach, or tickets to build stronger connections.
  • Integrated Workflows: Bring tools together to provide agents with immediate context and actionable insights.
  • Streamlined Onboarding and Training: Train new customer support hires with Cassidy as their AI copilot, providing instant access to knowledge bases and tools to help them get up to speed faster.

Cassidy is designed to help your team work smarter, not harder, making customer support more efficient.

Ready to transform your approach to support enablement? Start your free trial today.

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