Tenders SA - AI Based
AI-powered tender discovery & intelligence for South Africa
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AI-powered tender discovery & intelligence for South Africa
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Uses AI-powered recommendations to match your business with government tenders you can actually win. Complete your company profile, and our engine analyzes capabilities, certifications, and track records to surface perfectly matched opportunities. National Treasury Municipalities Government Gazette Our application assistance platform guides you through: Bid preparation Document requirements Submission processes Transforming tender applications from guesswork into strategic wins.
Hi Product Hunt! 👋
I'm the founder of **Tenders SA**, and I'm excited to share what we've built to transform how South African businesses access government contracts.
The Problem
Government tenders in South Africa are published across hundreds of fragmented sources—scanned PDFs on municipal websites, the National Treasury portal, and the Government Gazette. Finding relevant opportunities requires hours of manual searching daily, creating a massive barrier for businesses, especially SMEs.
Our Solution
Tenders SA uses AI to aggregate, analyze, and match government tenders to your business profile automatically. We've built an intelligent recommendations engine that goes beyond simple keyword alerts—it understands your capabilities, certifications, and track record to surface opportunities you can actually win.
Technical Architecture (for the devs)
We recently migrated from a monolithic architecture to a **Python/FastAPI microservices** stack to handle scale and complexity:
- Document Ingestion Pipeline
Processes thousands of PDF tender documents daily from disparate sources
- AI Layer Powered by Google Gemini (Flash for speed, Pro for complex analysis) with a custom **RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)** system
- Intelligent Matching Our AI extracts structured requirements from unstructured text and matches them against detailed company profiles using semantic similarity and eligibility criteria
- Real-time Alerts: Profile-based notification engine delivering personalized tender matches
What You Get
🎯 AI-Powered Matching – Recommendations based on your complete business profile
💬 Chat with Tenders – RAG-based document Q&A to understand complex requirements
📧 Smart Daily Alerts – Curated opportunities you're qualified for
🔍 Unified Search – Searchable database of all SA government contracts
📋 Application Assistance – Guided bid preparation and submission support
Feedback Welcome
I'd especially love to hear from:
- Business owners How can we improve the matching accuracy?
- Developers Thoughts on our RAG implementation or microservices migration?
- Anyone What would make tender applications less painful?
Thanks for checking us out!
P.S. – If you're in South Africa or work with government procurement, I'm happy to share more about our data pipeline challenges and solutions.