Solution

Tender Risk Radar

For EPC contractors, IT services firms and every team bidding complex tenders: a scored, clause-cited read of the full packet before proposal resources are committed.

RFPsSOWsContract exhibitsCompliance schedulesLiability clauses
Every flagged clause linked to its exact pageThe same scoring logic on every bidEvery go/no-go decision human-made

The problem

Why this exists

Page 214

The killer clause hides deep

Uncapped indemnities, liquidated damages and mandatory certifications sit in hundred-page legal exhibits that nobody fully reads before the bid decision.

Weeks

Legal review blocks the bid clock

Expensive counsel time goes to reading whole packets while the proposal team waits for clearance and the deadline gets closer.

Optimism

Go/no-go by gut

Deal champions decide on incomplete reads; the objective view of the documents arrives after resources are already committed.

The product, not a promise

A tender packet you can interrogate

Tender Risk Radar — workspace
RFP, legal exhibits and SOWs ingestedFull packetcited
Clauses checked against your risk playbookClause-by-clausecited
Indemnity clause — liability uncapped, escalateverify
Payment terms vs. standard positionDeviation loggedcited
Weighted risk score with citationsScoredcited
HUMAN-APPROVED BEFORE IT POSTS

How it works

File in. Answer out.

  1. 1

    Ingest

    The full tender packet — RFP, legal exhibits, SOWs and compliance schedules — is read end to end.

  2. 2

    Compare

    Every clause is checked against your corporate risk playbook and standard terms.

  3. 3

    Score

    Non-compliant terms, financial exposure and technical gaps roll up into a weighted risk score.

  4. 4

    Escalate

    Tenders that breach risk appetite — uncapped liability, missed mandates — are flagged for executive review.

  5. 5

    Decide

    The bid team makes the go/no-go call with the scored deviations and cited clauses in front of them.

Who it's for

Built for the people who own the outcome

Bid manager

Gets the go/no-go answer in hours, with the clauses attached.

  • The full packet read before resources are committed
  • Deviations from standard positions listed clause by clause
  • Suggested redline language for the risks found

Commercial director

Every opportunity passes the same test before it spends resources.

  • One weighted scoring model for every bid, whoever champions it
  • Threshold breaches escalated automatically
  • The calendar goes to writing winning responses

Legal counsel

Rules on flagged exceptions instead of reading everything.

  • Every flag links to the exact clause and page
  • Uncapped liabilities and missed mandates surfaced before proposal work starts
  • A record of what was flagged and who accepted it
EPC & constructionIT & professional servicesManufacturingDefense & aerospaceEnergy & infrastructureFacilities management
Clause-levelevery risk linked to its exact page
One modelthe same scoring logic for every bid
Hoursfrom packet to scored go/no-go
Human-approvedevery go/no-go decision

The clauses that turn a winning bid into a loss-making contract are rarely on page one. Uncapped indemnities, liquidated damages and mandatory certifications sit deep in hundred-page legal exhibits, and finding them means expensive legal review before proposal work can even start. Meanwhile go/no-go decisions get made on sales optimism, because the objective read of the documents arrives too late to matter.

Tender Risk Radar reads the entire tender packet — RFPs, contract exhibits, SOWs, compliance schedules — against your corporate risk playbook. It extracts payment terms, warranty periods and liability caps without boolean search strings or templates, identifies non-compliant terms and technical showstoppers, and produces a weighted risk score for the opportunity. Deviations from your standard positions are tracked clause by clause, and the system suggests specific redline language for the risks it finds.

Discipline at bid speed

The consistency is the point. Every opportunity passes through the same model before resources are assigned, which removes the bias of who is championing the deal. Tenders that breach defined thresholds — an uncapped liability, a missed certification mandate — are escalated automatically instead of being discovered three weeks into proposal writing. Legal review shifts from reading everything to ruling on the flagged exceptions, so the bid team gets its answer in hours and spends the calendar on writing a winning response.

Every flag has a page number

A risk score no one can verify is just another opinion. Every deviation Tender Risk Radar raises links back to the exact clause in the source document, so when sales asks why a bid is rated high-risk, legal can show the sentence. Decisions stay human — the system scores and cites, your team decides — and the record of what was flagged and who accepted it survives for the post-mortem.

Objections, answered

What teams ask us first

How do I trust the risk score?

Every deviation links to the exact clause in the source document — when sales asks why a bid is rated high-risk, legal shows the sentence. The score is a roll-up of cited findings, and the go/no-go call stays with your team.

Is the scoring based on our playbook?

Yes. Your corporate risk playbook and standard terms define what counts as a deviation and how it weighs. Change the playbook and the next packet scores against the new positions.

What survives after the decision?

The full record: what was flagged, how it scored, which redlines were suggested, and who accepted which risk. Post-mortems and contract disputes start from the logged read, page numbers included.

What do we need to start?

Your risk playbook, your standard terms, and a few recent tender packets. The first scored reads come from your own documents — there are no boolean search strings or extraction templates to build.

Bring your gnarliest tender packet.

Watch a hundred-page exhibit give up its uncapped liability clause — scored, cited and escalated — live in the demo.

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