With one estimator’s morning
Public tenders are open to everyone and hard to get through. A ten-person shop gets the same list as a national contractor. Finding the four jobs that are open to them falls on whoever has the least time.
Every alerting tool on the market solves this with keywords. We measured what that does: 44 past Manitoba contracts match the word “heating”, and most of them are deliveries of heating fuel on winter roads. That is what happens when software matches words instead of reading what the job is.
First live version. Federal and Québec tenders, the requirement checks, the cost model.
Tested on real Manitoba tender documents, not made-up ones. It read a third of the requirements correctly. We rebuilt it around what the test showed, and that took it to nearly all of them.
Addendums: what changed, what it superseded, and what of yours is now out of date.
Looking for the next few companies to build it with. That is the whole plan.