Grow public sector revenue with AI agents
Find, qualify and respond to UK and EU tenders, guided by the bid team behind £3bn+ in contract wins.
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- Neverbland
- Passion Digital
- Faddom
- Times Higher Education
- We Create Digital
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What is a higher win rate worth to you?
Move the sliders for a first read. The full calculator adds your team, hours and salary benchmarks, and shows what each bid costs you today.
Extra contract value a year
£450kAbout 3 extra contracts from the same number of bids
Added to your win rate: 25% becomes 35%.
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Customer story
Two minutes to bid/no-bid. Down from 30.
How a UK digital agency turned tender qualification from a half-hour slog into instant clarity — and stopped missing opportunities they never knew existed.
Anna
Managing Director, We Create Digital
30 → 2 min
Bid/no-bid decision time
10 min
To evaluate three opportunities
UK agency
Digital services, public sector
The expertise behind Skim
“After forty years of this, the difference between winners and losers is rarely the proposal. It’s the strategy that came months before it.”
- Industry veteran with 40 years’ experience.
- Developed the APMP certification programme.
- Helped secure over £20bn+ in contracts.
UK & EU tender coverage in one place. Track opportunities across every region you bid into.
From buyer signal to signed contract. The agent works the bid before the RFP exists.
Cabinet Office digital transformation lead matched to your win profile.
Healthcare framework due for renewal in four months. Added to watchlist.
Introduction note ready for the buyer at MoJ — sign off to send.
Lot 2 technical response complete. Section 3 needs human sign-off.
Local authority software framework awarded. Loss-notice insights archived.
The gap that closes. Total value applied for, against total value won — narrowing every quarter.
The intelligence Claude and ChatGPT can’t reach. Trained on every UK & EU award notice, tender document, and supplier history.
What would you like to work on?
Ask Skim about a tender, your pipeline, or a buyer…
The part they don't mention
Found a tender. Now what?
Alert platforms are good at one thing — more alerts. They won't shortlist what's worth your time, draft a response that scores, or learn from the loss notice. The more they surface, the more unpaid work lands on your desk. That's the part nobody warns you about.
The market, on one line
Software on its own leaves the work to you. Consultancies do the work — at a price.
Skim sits in the gap between the two — the software that actually does the work, with a bid team that has won £3bn+ standing behind it.
Software-only
Tender alert platforms
Software + service
Skim
Service-only
Specialist bid consultancies
The numbers
Less time per bid. More bids worth winning. Skim collapses the slow, manual parts of bidding so your team can focus on the work that actually moves win rate — strategy, evidence, and relationships.
Bid/no-bid decision, down from 40 min before Skim.
Faster retrieval of tender files and supporting documents.
Time spent searching for opportunities, down from 1 hour a day.
Won by the Skim team across UK and EU public sector contracts.
1-on-1 strategy session with a veteran bid lead.
Support from the team, plus the agent working overnight.
How the agent works
Forty years of bidding expertise. At your fingertips.
For the first time, you have your own bid advisor — one that strategises with you, spots the moves you'd never see on your own, and turns the days you used to lose into bids you actually win.
- 40 years of UK & EU tender data
- Trained by the bid leads behind £3bn+ in wins
- Bid/no-bid scoring on every opportunity
- AI-drafted responses built to score
Built for your stage
Whether it's your first bid or your hundredth.
First-time bidders
Win your first government contract — without the learning curve.
Confidence, structure, and a clear path. We walk you through it like Tony would.
Learn moreGrowing bidders
Bid more without burning out your team.
Capacity that scales. Drafting that doesn't sacrifice quality. Pipeline you can actually see.
Learn moreMature bidders
Win the bids that matter. Faster.
Win-rate optimisation, competitive intelligence, and the discipline of a veteran bid team.
Learn morePricing
The strategy behind £3bn+ in wins. Now yours, through Skim.
The strategy is proven. Now Tony, Skim's AI agent, does the work. Start free.
Free
Research the public sector market with Tony, Skim's AI agent.
- Up to 3 users
- 1 country tracked
Tony, your AI agent
- Business intelligence insights on any buyer, competitor or contract (basic usage)
- Finds 1 strong tender match a day (every match from Starter)
- Runs 3 free bid/no-bid and buyer intelligence reports
Starter
For teams bidding regularly in one market.
- Up to 5 users
- 1 country tracked
Everything in Free, plus:
Tony, your AI agent
- Business intelligence insights on any buyer, competitor or contract (2× usage)
- Matches every tender, every day, at 90% accuracy
- Runs bid/no-bid and buyer intelligence reports on any tender
- Analyses your competitors and flags expiring contracts before they re-tender
- Maps stakeholders and finds decision-maker contacts
- Works inside Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini (Skim MCP)
- Email and chat support
Growth
For bid teams growing across markets, with Skim's experts on call.
- Up to 10 users
- 3 countries tracked
Everything in Starter, plus:
Tony, your AI agent
- Business intelligence insights on any buyer, competitor or contract (5× usage)
- Retrieves every tender file automatically from UK and Irish buyer portals
- Reads the tender pack and organises the data you need to complete the bid
- Advises on pricing to win, from award values on similar contracts (coming soon)
- Auto-syncs and enriches your CRM
- Dedicated account manager and bi-weekly strategy calls
- Shared Slack channel and team permissions
Enterprise
For organisations building public sector revenue at scale.
- Unlimited users
- 27 countries tracked
Everything in Growth, plus:
Tony, your AI agent
- Business intelligence insights on any buyer, competitor or contract (unlimited token usage)
- Drafts your bids with the latest buyer and market data
- Maps and classifies every expiring contract in your market
- Builds stakeholder relationships through automated outreach sequences
- Custom bid intelligence inside your internal AI applications, with a full implementation plan
- Integrates with any HTTP API
- Full coverage of the UK and Europe, with add-ons for the USA, Africa and Asia
- Single Sign-On (SSO/SAML)
- Tony classifies tenders with 90% accuracy. The average for tender tracking is 8%.
- Your data is secure on every plan, with team permissions from Growth and SSO on Enterprise.
Frequently asked questions
The questions experienced bidders ask first.
We already have someone who writes our bids. Why would we need Skim?
Skim is not a replacement for a bid lead — it is the leverage layer underneath them. The agent sources opportunities across UK and EU portals, scores fit before they invest a day on a no-hoper, drafts first-pass responses against the buyer's marking scheme, and reviews drafts for the points that lose on quality. Your bid lead stops being a writer and starts being an editor with a 40-year veteran in the room.
How does Skim avoid generic, hallucinated AI bid responses?
Drafts are grounded in your own case studies, accreditations, methodologies and past wins — not a generic LLM guess. Every response is scored against the buyer's published evaluation criteria, and the Skim bid team reviews high-value drafts with you on the weekly call. The bar is a bid your reviewer would sign off, not a bid that looks plausible.
How does Skim handle our commercial data and bid content?
Your bid library, case studies and pipeline are scoped to your workspace. Skim does not train public models on your content, and contractual data-handling terms are reviewed at onboarding for Enterprise customers. Security-led onboarding, role-based permissions and audit trails are included on the Enterprise tier; SSO is available on request.
How quickly will Skim pay for itself?
Public sector contracts for SMEs typically sit in the £40k–£500k+ range. One additional win pays for a year of Growth several times over. The faster compounding effect is on the bids you don't write: most customers walk away from 30–40% more opportunities once fit scoring is in place, which frees the team to put serious effort into the bids worth winning.
Is there a contract commitment?
No long-term lock-in. Monthly plans run month-to-month and can be cancelled before the next billing date. Yearly plans are billed upfront with a 15% discount and run for twelve months. You can switch plans at any time, with the change taking effect from the next billing cycle.
Is there a free plan?
Yes. The free plan covers up to 3 users and 1 country. Tony, Skim's AI agent, gives business intelligence insights on any buyer, competitor or contract with basic usage, finds 1 strong tender match a day and runs 3 free bid/no-bid and buyer intelligence reports. Paid plans start at £199/mo with a 14-day trial.
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