Respond faster. Submit stronger. Pursue more.
Tenor helps Australian civil & commercial contractors review tender documents faster and produce stronger submissions. It turns complex council specifications, last-minute addenda and large schedules into clear scope sheets, helping your team pursue more opportunities without adding headcount.
The estimating bottleneck is costing you tenders.
Senior estimators should spend less time scanning contract clauses and cross-referencing reports, and more time pricing work and negotiating subcontractor rates.
| Manual reality | Tenor workflow |
|---|---|
| The manual realityLate addenda create a scramble. Addendum 04 lands 36 hours before tender close, and estimators spend half a day finding what changed, whether the tender comes from DTP Victoria, TfNSW or a local council. | The Tenor workflowDocument comparison. Tenor compares Rev A with Rev B and identifies changes to earthworks requirements, plant specifications and milestone penalties. |
| The manual realityCommercial risks can be buried deep in the documents, including 12-month plant maintenance bonds, non-standard compaction testing and onerous liquidated damages. | The Tenor workflowRisk register. Each tender package produces a register that highlights non-standard commercial clauses for review. |
| The manual realityPreparing subcontractor packages takes time. Separating a civil or landscape specification into drainage, hydroseeding and asphalt packages can take days. | The Tenor workflowTrade scope sheets. Generate separate scope-of-work sheets that are ready to send to subcontractors for pricing. |
| The manual realityLimited capacity. Commercial teams turn down suitable tenders when they do not have time to assess them properly. | The Tenor workflowMore tender capacity. Assess and respond to more opportunities without adding specialist headcount. |
Two ways we help operational teams.
Use Tenor to improve tender response, or engage us separately for practical AI training across your existing tools. Each service is available independently.
Tender response software with ongoing support
Use Tenor to review tender documents and prepare stronger submissions. Product onboarding and workflow support are included.
- Simple setup. There is nothing to install. Tenor outputs fit alongside tools such as Outlook, SharePoint, Procore, Jobpac and Cubit.
- Self-serve tender ingestion. Upload the tender ZIP directly to Tenor and receive structured scope summaries, compliance matrices and RFI drafts within minutes.
- Addendum and drawing review. Compare revisions and track scope changes, specification changes and updated bills of quantities.
- Workflow support. As your needs change, our team can adapt workflows for site variations, subcontractor compliance and dockets.
Applied AI enablement
Practical, tool-independent AI training for commercial, estimating and project teams. No Tenor subscription is required.
- 30-day enablement program. Build repeatable AI workflows around the work your team already does.
- Document review and synthesis. Summarise long documents, compare versions and extract decisions, risks and actions.
- Reporting and communication. Draft emails, reports, meeting notes and project updates with a consistent review process.
- Safe and reliable use. Learn how to verify outputs, protect sensitive information and set practical team guardrails.
Fits into your current tender workflow.
Raw tender documents
Specifications, geotech, addenda
Tender document analysis
Risk register, scopes, changes
Structured Word and Excel outputs
Tender submission ready
Your tender data stays protected.
Tender pricing and project history are commercially sensitive. Tenor is designed to keep that information protected.
Stored in Australia
Your documents, evidence library and tender content are stored on Amazon Web Services infrastructure in Sydney (ap-southeast-2).
AI processing can occur offshore
Drafting and analysis use third-party large language model APIs, and some of that processing happens outside Australia. Your content is never used to train any model.
Separate customer environments
Each contractor's environment is kept separate. Your pricing strategy is never visible outside your business.
If in-Australia-only processing is a requirement for your business, tell us and we will talk through the options.
Still deciding? Ask us directly.
Every tender process is different. Tell us what you are working with and we will follow up with a practical answer.
- How pricing works for your tender volume.
- Whether Tenor fits your specific council or agency mix.
- What the first week actually looks like.
We're onboarding a small number of founding partners.
Tenor is working with Australian civil & commercial contractors to test the platform against real tenders. Founding partners receive pre-release pricing and can influence what we build next.
Questions contractors actually ask.
Do we need an internal IT team or software developer to run this?
No. Tenor is a self-serve platform with nothing to install or maintain on your side. Anyone comfortable with email, SharePoint or Excel can use it.
Will this replace our current estimating software such as Buildsoft, Cubit, Jobpac or Excel?
No. Tenor sits upstream of your pricing tools. Tenor reads and structures the tender documents so estimators can populate their pricing models faster and more accurately.
Is our tender data and pricing protected?
Yes. Each customer has a separate environment, and tender documents, pricing sheets and project records are never used to train any model. Your content is stored on AWS infrastructure in Sydney. Drafting and analysis use third-party large language model APIs, and some of that processing happens outside Australia.
How is this priced?
Pricing is based on tender volume and charged as a fixed annual subscription. It covers the platform and support for your team. Share your expected volume during the audit call and we will provide a clear annual price.
Will this slow my team down while they learn a new system?
The workflow is straightforward: log in, upload the tender pack and receive the output in familiar formats for Word and Excel. Our support team guides your team through the process in the first session.
How quickly can our team be up and running?
A typical onboarding takes 5 to 7 business days, depending on your workflow and the tools involved.