Tenderhook

Procurement radar · SMB government contractors

Never miss a winnable bid again.

Tenderhook runs a daily agent over SAM.gov, state & local portals, and buyer budget documents — matching tenders to what your firm actually does, red-lining every amendment, and flagging incumbent contracts before they re-compete.

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~85Ksmall businesses win a federal contract each year
$1.5T+annual state, local & education spend
1 missaddendum = a lost six-figure bid
Opportunity radar LIVE FEED
Sources SAM.gov · SLED portals · FPDS/USASpending · budget docs

The wedge

Government data is public, structured, and crawl-permitted — the one large corpus where an always-on agent runs at full fidelity.

Enterprise tools like GovWin IQ are quote-only at five figures a year. Free portal alerts are keyword spam. Tenderhook sits between them — semantic matching and living dossiers at a self-serve price.

  • Caught while it still matters

    A daily sweep means a new solicitation or amendment surfaces in your morning digest — not after the deadline has passed.

  • Matched to your real capabilities

    Semantic matching reads your NAICS codes and a plain-language profile, so "cloud migration under IT modernization" matches even when the keywords don't.

  • A record you can defend

    Every claim deep-links to the source document and page anchor. Quotes are string-verified against the extracted text — no unverifiable summaries shipped.

What Tenderhook does

A BD system of record, not just another bid-match newsletter.

Living dossiers per opportunity and per agency, deterministic amendment diffs, and the pre-RFP layer the cheap tools ignore.

Semantic matching

A fit score, not a keyword hit

Embeddings rank every solicitation against your capability profile, so you triage by real relevance instead of wading through a keyword dump. Scores are a ranking aid — you still make the bid/no-bid call.

Amendment red-lines

Every change, diffed deterministically

Detection is checksum-based — we poll the source of record, hash it, and diff the text. An LLM only summarizes what changed; it never decides whether something changed.

Living dossiers

One page per opportunity and per agency

Each tracked tender keeps its full amendment history and summarized Q&A addenda. Each target agency keeps its buying history, incumbent map, and the contracts coming up for re-compete — so the relationship has a memory, not just an inbox.

Pre-RFP radar

See it forming

Budget documents, council minutes, and capital-improvement plans telegraph solicitations months early — and award data reveals incumbents nearing expiration.

Where it lives

A morning digest first — then the board, alerts, and export

The opportunity review is the BD ritual, so the email digest leads. A web pipeline board holds agency dossiers and amendment red-lines; Slack alerts fire on deadline changes for tracked bids. All sources are public government documents — deep-linked and verifiable.

How it works

Three steps from profile to morning digest.

STEP 01

Describe what you do

Add your NAICS codes and a plain-language description of your firm's real capabilities. Pick the agencies and jurisdictions you sell into.

STEP 02

The agent sweeps daily

Tenderhook ingests federal extracts and SLED portals, embeds and ranks new solicitations against your profile, and checksums tracked documents for changes.

STEP 03

You review and decide

Open your digest, scan fit-ranked opportunities and red-lined amendments, work the pipeline board, and record bid/no-bid — every claim traceable to its source.

Pricing

Self-serve tiers — priced for SMB BD teams, not enterprise procurement.

Three plans that grow with your pipeline. Annual billing is the industry norm; monthly equivalents shown below. Final pricing confirmed at launch.

For solo operators

Solo

$149 / mo

$1,490 billed annually

Stop missing solicitations and amendments on the bids you already chase.

  • 3 capability profiles
  • Track up to 50 buyers
  • Amendment red-lining & deadline alerts
  • Daily email digest
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Most teams start here

Team

$349 / mo

$3,490 billed annually · 5 seats

The pipeline board plus the pre-RFP radar the cheaper tools don't have.

  • 10 capability profiles · 5 seats
  • Pre-RFP radar & incumbent-expiration alerts
  • Pipeline board & agency dossiers
  • Slack deadline alerts
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For capture teams

Capture

$699 / mo

$6,990 billed annually

Auto-drafted capture briefs and export into the systems you already run.

  • Everything in Team
  • Auto-drafted capture briefs
  • API & CRM export
  • Agency dossier synthesis
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Extra seats +$49/seat/mo SLED state packs +$50/mo each 14-day trial seeded with your NAICS profile

Prices reflect the planned launch tiers and are shown for reference. Final pricing, seat counts, and coverage are confirmed at launch.

Straight answers

What we will and won't claim.

Which sources and jurisdictions do you cover?
Federal coverage comes from SAM.gov extracts and the Get Opportunities API, plus grants.gov and EU TED, with FPDS/USASpending powering the award and incumbent-expiration graph. State, local, and education coverage is built portal by portal — common platforms like Bonfire, BidNet Direct, Periscope, OpenGov, Ionwave, and PlanetBids first, with the long tail added over time. Coverage will be partial at launch and expand continuously, so check the current list for your states before relying on it. Some SLED portals gate documents behind vendor registration; where access requires credentials or violates a portal's terms, we do not scrape it, and we are upfront about those gaps.
How accurate is amendment detection — can I trust it for go/no-go?
Detection is deterministic: we poll the source of record, checksum the document, and diff the extracted text. An LLM only summarizes the changed sections — it never decides whether a change occurred. That said, we cannot guarantee 100% recall across thousands of portals with varying formats and uptime, so Tenderhook is a monitoring aid, not a substitute for confirming deadlines and requirements on the official portal of record. Always verify the closing date and submission requirements directly with the issuing agency before you submit.
Is the fit score a guarantee that I'll win?
No. The fit score is a relevance ranking that helps you triage which solicitations deserve a closer look — it reflects how well an opportunity matches your stated capabilities, not your probability of award. Bid/no-bid and capture strategy stay entirely with your team.
How does this compare to GovWin, GovTribe, or the free portal alerts?
Enterprise tools like Deltek GovWin IQ are quote-only and typically run well into five figures a year. Free portal alerts are keyword-based and noisy. Tenderhook aims to sit between them on price while differentiating on three things the others under-serve: deterministic amendment red-lining, pre-RFP incumbent-expiration signal, and capability-based semantic matching. The category has real competitors — we're not claiming to be the only option, just a better fit for sub-$10M SMB contractors who want self-serve.

Tenderhook — coming soon

Put a radar on every winnable bid.

We're building toward launch. Join the waitlist and we'll seed your trial with your own NAICS and capability profile, so the first digest shows you a real opportunity you might have missed.

No spam, no data selling. We'll only email you about early access.