AI bid support for businesses and bid writers
Upload a tender and turn it into a structured bid workflow: suitability, evidence gaps, strategy, drafting, review, compliance checks and Word export.
First draft free • No credit card required • Your documents stay private — used only for your bids, deletable anytime
Not sure a tender is worth chasing? Run a free bid suitability check first
From tender to submission-ready in minutes
We do the writing so you can focus on winning the work
Add your business once
Paste your capability statement, past projects, certifications, insurances and key staff. BidShortlist structures it into a reusable evidence library.
Upload the tender
Drop in the tender document. We extract every selection criterion, mandatory requirement, word limit and closing date into a compliance matrix.
Get compliant responses
AI drafts a tailored response to every criterion using your evidence. Edit inline, run the compliance check, and export to Word.
Not one AI. A complete bid team.
Winning bids aren't just written — they're strategised, evidenced and reviewed. BidShortlist runs the same steps a professional bid team runs, and each one works only from your real evidence. Nothing is invented.
Bid strategist
Gives you an honest go/no-go before you invest, then sets your win themes and the angle for each criterion.
Evidence checker
Finds the proof this tender needs that your evidence does not yet hold — surfaced as a risk before you write a word.
Bid writer
Drafts every criterion from your evidence, guided by the strategy and kept within the word limit.
Evaluation panel
Scores each answer the way a government panel will, flagging unaddressed parts and any claim your evidence does not support.
Final reviewer
Reads the whole submission as one bid — catching contradictions, repetition, a weak value-for-money story and over-promising.
Compliance & export
A deterministic last check for unaddressed criteria, missing mandatories and over-limit answers, then a clean Word export.
Each step feeds the next: the strategy guides the writer, and the reviewers' fixes flow straight back into your drafts — the same handover a real bid team does.
Why not just use a chatbot?
A general chatbot is one blank model answering in isolation. BidShortlist is a complete AI bid team — specialised roles that pass work to each other and stick to your real evidence. That's what wins a structured compliance process, not an essay.
A team, not one bot
A strategist, writer, evaluation panel and final reviewer each do their job and hand off to the next. A single chatbot does all of it shallowly, in one pass, with no handoff.
Won't get you disqualified
Most SME bids are thrown out for non-compliance, not bad writing. We flag unaddressed criteria, over-limit answers and missing mandatory items. A chatbot has no compliance gate.
Scored like the panel
Every answer is reviewed the way a government panel will score it, and the whole bid is checked for contradictions and over-claiming. A chatbot never grades its own work.
Grounded in your evidence
Responses are built from your real past projects, certifications and capabilities — reused across every bid. A blank chatbot starts from zero each time and will invent details.
A generic chatbot vs a complete bid team
Pasting a tender into a chatbot gives you a confident-sounding essay. Winning a government tender takes a process.
A generic AI chatbot
One blank model, one pass
- Starts from zero — and will invent projects and numbers
- No compliance gate or word-limit enforcement
- No strategy, panel scoring or whole-bid review
BidShortlist
A complete AI bid team
First bid free · from $149/bid · or $199/month for up to 15 bids
- Grounded in your evidence — nothing invented
- Compliance-checked and kept within every word limit
- Strategised, scored like the panel, reviewed as a whole bid
First full draft free — see the quality before you pay.
Built for businesses and bid writers
Whether you bid for your own business or write bids for a living, BidShortlist does the heavy lifting so you can focus on winning.
Businesses
Respond to tenders in-house with a compliant, evidence-backed draft in minutes — no expensive engagement, no starting from a blank page each time.
Bid writers & consultants
Skip the first-draft grind. BidShortlist extracts the criteria and drafts from each client's evidence, so you spend your time on strategy and polish — and bill for the value, not the hours.
Ready to win your next contract?
Upload your tender and draft a compliant, evidence-backed response in minutes — free for your first bid.
No credit card required • First draft free • Cancel anytime