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Deep provider audit

TenderAI

TenderAI sells a low-touch, per-profile email briefing for UK SMEs: two official feeds are scored against a provider-managed business profile and reduced to a short BID/FLAG/SKIP list. The offer is simple and inexpensive to operate, but the public surface gives little evidence of workflow depth, legal maturity, information-security controls or data infrastructure beyond the daily digest.

At a glance

What is publicly established

Public pricing£99/month per business profile with unlimited opportunities. A free weekly digest is also advertised.
Billing basisper organisation
Named portals2
Official productOpen provider site ↗
Normalized features

Capability-by-capability evidence

Yes means the complete normalized capability is available in at least one current plan. Partial means the implementation is adjacent, incomplete or materially narrower. Missing public evidence defaults to not offered.

AI or semantic matching

Yes

Every tender is scored 0-100 against a personalised business profile using claimed semantic understanding, with BID, FLAG or SKIP rationale.

Product and pricing ↗

Buyer profiles

Not offered

Buyer names appear in briefs, but the reviewed pages do not establish structured buyer-intelligence profiles.

Supplier profiles

Not offered

The customer's own business profile does not establish supplier, incumbent, winner or competitor profiles.

Renewals

Not offered

The reviewed pages do not establish contract expiry, renewal, extension or re-tender monitoring.

Similar contracts

Not offered

The provider says it validates profiles against past tenders a customer would have won, but does not establish a user-facing similar-contract feature.

Buyer document corpus

Not offered

The reviewed pages do not establish buyer plans, strategies, minutes, pipelines, budgets or other buyer-authored documents.

Buyer requirements

Not offered

Match rationales are described, but the reviewed pages do not establish extracted participation conditions, evaluation criteria or recurring buyer requirements.

Requirements planning

Not offered

The reviewed pages do not establish readiness actions, evidence planning or a requirements gap workflow.

Award history

Not offered

The reviewed pages describe live tender opportunities, not historical awards, winners or award search.

Frameworks

Not offered

Example briefs include DPS opportunities, but the reviewed pages do not establish dedicated framework, DPS or dynamic-market discovery or intelligence.

Competitor tracking

Not offered

The reviewed pages do not establish named competitor, incumbent, supplier or winner monitoring.

Exports or API

Not offered

The reviewed pages do not establish CSV, spreadsheet, API, webhook, CRM or other data export or integration.

Team workflow

Not offered

The reviewed pages do not establish multiple users, assignments, comments or a shared team pipeline.

Bid writing

Not offered

TenderAI says it finds and scores opportunities for the customer to decide on, but the reviewed pages do not expressly establish or exclude bid-writing functionality.

Comparable pricing

Monthly and annual plans

PlanPay monthly
per month
Pay annually
per year
Annual effective
per month
BasisIncluded usersNotes
Free weekly digest0Not publishedNot publishedper organisationNot publicly statedFree weekly digest; no credit card required. This is a digest rather than the personalised daily paid profile.
Paid profile (unnamed)£99Not publishedNot publishedper organisationNot publicly stated; one business profileThe page publishes no formal plan name and prices per profile. First month is free; annual billing and VAT treatment are not published.

Trial: First month free and cancel anytime. The page says no card is charged for 30 days, but does not clearly state whether a card is required for the paid-plan trial; the separate weekly digest says no credit card is needed. VAT: VAT treatment is not publicly stated on the reviewed page.

Product and pricing ↗
Deep audit

Business and product

Legal identity and maturity

Weak evidence

The reviewed site identifies only the TenderAI brand and brief@tenderai.uk contact, describes 16 active business profiles and a first cohort, and publishes beta-customer testimonials. No registered operator, company number, terms, privacy policy, data-processing terms, physical address or official corporate record was found on the reviewed first-party surface.

TenderAI product page ↗

Target customer and use case

Strong evidence

TenderAI explicitly targets UK SMEs without dedicated bid teams across IT, construction, facilities management, consulting, training, health and social care, waste and catering. The intended job is to replace 30-60 minutes of daily manual screening with a two-minute email decision list.

TenderAI product page ↗

Commercial model

Strong evidence

The paid offer is £99 per month per business profile with unlimited opportunities, cancel-anytime billing and a free first month; a free weekly digest is also offered. The page says no card is charged for 30 days but does not state clearly whether payment details are required to begin, and no annual, team or enterprise schedule is published.

TenderAI pricing ↗

Security, support and onboarding

Weak evidence

Onboarding is a 15-minute call or email exchange, with profile setup promised within hours and ongoing changes by reply email. The reviewed public surface does not state the legal controller, hosting region, authentication model, encryption, retention, sub-processors, tenant isolation, support SLA, security certification or incident route.

Concierge onboarding and FAQ ↗
Deep audit

Data and discovery engine

Sources and coverage method

Strong evidence

The current product names exactly two sources: Find a Tender Service and Contracts Finder, aggregated under the Open Government Licence. It claims roughly 100,000 notices per year and broader UK-public-sector coverage, but provides no source inventory beyond those two feeds and no independent completeness evidence.

Product coverage FAQ ↗Daily digest source note ↗

Ingestion and freshness

Moderate evidence

The provider says it scans opportunities daily, updates the public digest daily and sends customer briefs each morning, with the first brief at 04:00 UTC after profile setup. It does not publish feed polling intervals, deduplication rules, correction handling, status history, measured ingestion lag or a freshness SLA.

TenderAI product and delivery FAQ ↗Public daily digest ↗

Matching and qualification

Strong evidence

A concierge-built profile records sector, keywords, sectors served, CPV codes and value range; TenderAI says it validates this profile against past tenders and then applies 0-100 BID, FLAG or SKIP scoring with plain-English rationale. Profile changes are provider-managed by email within 24 hours and self-serve editing is only coming soon.

How it works and FAQ ↗Public scored digest ↗

Historical and award depth

Weak evidence

TenderAI says it validates a new profile against past tenders the customer would have won, but this is an onboarding method rather than a user-facing history or awards product. No award search, winner/value history, linked notice chain or customer-accessible historical depth was established.

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Deep audit

Intelligence depth

Buyer entity investment

Not found

Buyer names appear in tender briefs, but no canonical buyer record, alias handling, duplicate merging, buyer history or cross-notice buyer profile was documented.

Public daily digest ↗

Supplier entity investment

Not found

The personalised business profile is the subscriber's matching configuration, not a supplier-intelligence entity. No winner, incumbent, competitor, alias or cross-award supplier model was found.

TenderAI product page ↗

Renewal-signal method

Not found

The reviewed pages do not document published contract-end monitoring, calculated expiry windows, extension tracking, predicted re-tender timing or confirmed future-notice linkage.

Requirements-planning method

Not found

BID/FLAG/SKIP rationales help triage opportunities, but no requirement extraction, evidence-gap register, owner/action/deadline workflow or readiness state was documented.

TenderAI product page ↗

Workflow and integrations

Weak evidence

The operational surface is an emailed top-ten brief with links to original tender pages and provider-managed profile updates. No CSV/API, CRM or messaging integration, assignments, shared workspace, multi-user controls, comments or tender pipeline was documented.

TenderAI product page ↗
Coverage evidence

Named portals and broader claims

  • The provider claims the two sources together represent about 100,000 notices per year across the UK public sector, with more sources to be added.Product coverage FAQ ↗
Buyer diligence

Limitations, contradictions and questions

Material limitations

  • Only Find a Tender and Contracts Finder are currently named, leaving devolved and specialist portal coverage unestablished.Coverage FAQ ↗
  • No public legal entity, terms, privacy, security or data-processing documentation was found on the reviewed first-party surface.TenderAI product page ↗
  • The product is an email-screening layer with no documented buyer/supplier intelligence, renewals, award history, collaboration, requirements planning or export integration.TenderAI product page ↗

First-party contradictions

  • The homepage says matching is not keyword matching and uses real semantic understanding, while many public daily-digest explanations visibly rely on CPV match, keyword found and value-within-range rules. This may be a hybrid method, but the weighting is not disclosed.Semantic-matching claim ↗Public daily digest rationales ↗
  • The page calls the offer a free first month and says no card is charged for 30 days, but it does not resolve whether a card is collected at signup.TenderAI pricing and CTA ↗

Questions to ask

  1. What legal entity contracts with customers, and where are the terms, privacy policy and data-processing agreement?
  2. Is a payment card required to start the first free month, and what happens automatically on day 30?
  3. How often are each of the two official feeds polled, how are duplicates/corrections handled, and what is measured ingestion latency?
  4. What percentage of the match score comes from semantic analysis versus keywords, CPV codes and value filters?
  5. Can TenderAI provide recall-and-precision results on a representative historical sample for our sector?
  6. What hosting, encryption, retention, access-control and incident-response controls protect company-profile data?
Verification boundary: This profile organises provider statements and official records. It is not an independent product test. Verify live notices, data completeness, contract terms and a real workflow before purchase.