Read the tender package in minutes, and check every sentence
Defense Explorer fetches the public tender documents, parses them page by page and writes a brief in which every claim cites the document, the page and the exact words. A quote that cannot be found is downgraded to unknown. Requirements come out as a matrix you can correct and check against your own evidence.
In one paragraph
[ SUMMARY ]An AI summary is only useful for a bid decision if you can check it faster than you could read the documents. That is the whole design brief.
- 01Every claim cites a span of a document and quotes it verbatim; the quote is verified against that span.
- 02Unverifiable claims become unknown; claims from disagreeing documents become conflict.
- 03The brief states facts and unknowns only. It makes no fit recommendation.
- 04Requirements are extracted into a matrix you can correct, dismiss or add to, and corrections persist.
- 05Only approved, in-date evidence can mark a requirement as met.
From notice to qualification pack
[ 06 STAGES ]- STEP 01
Register and fetch the documents
For notices you watchlist or pursue, and for open military and dual-use notices, public documents are registered and fetched on a schedule. Portals that need a login are labelled gated and never bypassed. You can also import a document you received directly; it stays visible only to your company.
- STEP 02
Parse with positions
PDFs are parsed per page, DOCX by heading sections, and HTML and text as they are. Every span of text keeps its page or section, so a citation can point somewhere real. A scanned PDF with no text layer is marked unsupported with a note, and nothing is invented to fill the gap.
- STEP 03
Generate the brief
The notice record and the parsed documents, in order from notice to tender documents, amendments, Q&A and annexes, are sent to the model with an instruction that document text is untrusted data. The output is validated as strict JSON. Each quote is checked against its cited span; if it is not there, the claim is marked unknown with “citation could not be verified”.
- STEP 04
Extract and correct requirements
Requirements are extracted in the same pass, with an English version when the source is not English. Corrections and dismissals are stored for your company and survive re-extraction: new rows supersede old ones and nothing is deleted.
- STEP 05
Assess against your evidence
For a pursuit, each requirement is assessed against the evidence library. A requirement can be recorded as met only if a linked item passes every rule: approved, started, not expired, and of the exact credential type the requirement names.
- STEP 06
Export and keep current
Export the brief as PDF with citations, the matrix as CSV, or the qualification pack as PDF or XLSX. When a document changes, the brief is marked stale and material amendments flag the affected requirements for re-review.
The rules that make it trustworthy
[ RULES ]Three rules do most of the work, and they are enforced in code rather than in a prompt.
A citation that cannot be found is not a fact
Quotes are compared with the cited span after normalising whitespace. A mismatch downgrades the claim to unknown, and the brief displays it as such with a bracketed tag. Clicking a citation opens the cited span with the quote highlighted.
Only approved, in-date evidence satisfies a requirement
Evidence items carry a review status of draft, approved, rejected or expired, validity dates, issuer and reference. Imported or inferred credentials start as drafts. A draft, expired or not-yet-valid item cannot satisfy anything, and an ISO 9001 certificate cannot satisfy an ISO 27001 requirement. When an item is blocked, the matrix names the rule.
An amendment never rewrites your decision
New document versions are compared with the previous ones. Whitespace, pagination and boilerplate changes are classified cosmetic and notify nobody. A material change shows the original and updated clause side by side, notifies the owners of affected assessments, evidence and the pursuit once, marks those requirements for re-review, and recommends revisiting the current decision.
The brief from an assistant
[ MCP ]Assistants read the same brief through the [MCP server](/integrations/mcp/).
{
"opportunityId": "uuid",
"question": "What evidence of previous delivery is requested?",
"history": []
}
// The response includes "sources" and "documentCoverage".
// The assistant must distinguish facts from inferences and say
// when the indexed material is incomplete.What it does not do
[ LIMITS ]- +Cite and verify every claim against the document text
- +Show document coverage and its limitations
- +Keep your requirement corrections and evidence decisions
- +Export briefs, matrices and qualification packs
- –Write proposal text or submit bids
- –Read scanned PDFs without a text layer (OCR is not enabled)
- –Open login-gated portals or classified annexes
- –Recommend whether to bid: the brief is facts and unknowns only
Questions
[ 05 ANSWERS ]01Which language models are used?
Briefs and Q&A run through a configured model provider, with an Anthropic Claude model as the fallback. Prompts are versioned, and a brief is cached against the exact document versions and prompt version that produced it.
02What if the tender documents are in French or Spanish?
Documents are read in their original language. Requirements get an English version alongside the original text, and citations point to the original page.
03Can other companies see our imported documents?
No. Documents you import are visible only to your company. Briefs from public tender documents may be shared across workspaces because the inputs are public; your requirement corrections, evidence and assessments are always private to your workspace.
04What is in the qualification pack?
The brief summary with its version, and the requirement-by-requirement assessment against your evidence, as PDF or XLSX. The requirements matrix alone exports as CSV.
05How is this different from a chat assistant on the tender?
Chat answers a question you thought to ask. The brief is a structured review artifact with a claim per fact, verified citations and explicit unknowns. Q&A is there too, and its answers are citation-checked in the same way.
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