Our story

Good firms keep losing bids for the wrong reasons.

The problem is retrieval, not capability.

The evidence already exists in your past tenders, policies, and case studies. It's trapped in Word documents on a shared drive.

Deadlines punish the thorough.

The firms writing the best bids are the ones with the most time — not the most expertise. That's backwards.

AI's highest value is your own data.

Generic AI writes generic copy. Tendee drafts from your firm's proprietary truth — the stuff no competitor can replicate.

When we looked at how New Zealand mid-market construction firms were bidding, the pattern was clear and painful: the companies doing the best work on the ground were losing tenders to firms who were simply better at writing about it. Bidding had become an exercise in paperwork endurance.

The commercial directors and estimators we spoke to were exhausted. Bidding happens at night. It happens on weekends. The safety protocols that win compliance, the case studies that prove capability — all of it already exists. But it's scattered across decades of isolated documents, completely inaccessible when the deadline is 72 hours away.

Tendee exists to level the playing field. We believe an LLM's highest value isn't writing generic internet copy — it's structuring, retrieving, and citing your firm's hard-earned proprietary truth. We're building the infrastructure that lets NZ construction leaders spend their time managing risk and winning work, not retyping methodology statements at 10pm.

NZ$50B
procured annually in NZ
20–40 hrs
per tender, wasted
60–80%
of that, eliminable
10 firms
founding partner spots

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