Know if a tender is worth your time — in three minutes, not three days.
Skim reads the full tender pack, checks the requirements against your business, and tells you straight whether you can win it. The work that used to eat a week is done before your coffee goes cold.
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In one line: Skim Bid Analysis is an AI agent that reads the full UK or EU tender pack — sometimes hundreds of pages — extracts every compliance requirement and evaluation criterion, checks it against your business, and gives you a straight read on whether the bid is worth pursuing in three minutes.
The requirements check
Tender packs run to hundreds of pages. Buried inside are the compliance requirements, financial thresholds, certifications, and past-performance evidence the buyer needs before they will even read your response. Skim pulls every requirement out, checks it against your business, and tells you what you meet, what you don't, and what you need to find — before you spend a day writing.
Your chances of winning
Skim reads the full pack and weighs the things that actually decide the win: the budget, the incumbent, what the buyer has chosen before, where the marks are, and whether the contract makes sense for your margin. You get a straight read on your chances — and the reasoning behind it — so the bids you write are the ones you can win.
- Budget fitWithin range
- Incumbent riskNo defending contractor
- Past awardsBuyer favours SMEs
- MarginTight but viable
The number that matters
What experienced teams used to spend reading a tender pack before Skim. The agent does it while you read this sentence.
How this compares
The alternatives buyers most often weigh against this agent.
Frequently asked questions
Bid Analysis: common questions
What does Skim's Bid Analysis agent do?
It reads the full UK or EU tender pack — sometimes hundreds of pages — extracts every compliance requirement and evaluation criterion, checks each one against your business, and gives you a straight read on whether the bid is worth pursuing in three minutes rather than three days.
How does the agent decide whether a bid is worth your time?
It weighs the factors that actually decide the win: the budget, the incumbent, what the buyer has chosen before, where the marks sit in the published scoring scheme, and whether the contract fits your margin. You get a win-probability read with the full reasoning behind it, so you only write the bids you can win.
What does the agent check the tender against?
It maps every requirement to your accreditations, turnover thresholds and past-performance evidence, then tells you what you meet, what you don't, and what you still need to find. Each requirement links straight to the source clause in the tender pack, so nothing called out is unverifiable.
How is this faster than reading the tender pack myself?
Experienced teams used to spend up to three days reading a tender pack before deciding. The agent ingests the full pack across PDFs, DOCX and ZIP attachments and returns a bid/no-bid decision in three minutes, built on the methodology behind £3bn+ in public sector wins.
Sources
The primary data and methodology behind the claims on this page.
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