ZUSCHLAG

A company describes itself by voice. From that, the system builds a structured company profile, pulls live tender notices, and for each notice checks the company against the notice's eligibility criteria — not just the topic. Output per tender: GO / CONDITIONAL / NO-GO, naming the exact blocking criterion. All blockers are then aggregated into an unlock report: which one-time measures would open the most currently blocked contract volume. Commercial German tender search services exist — bidfix, tendigo, patterno, tendermeister, tendit. They are all alert feeds. Keyword in, hit list out by email. They don't solve the core problem: the owner gets 200 hits and doesn't know for a single one whether he is eligible. The work stays with him. Zuschlag differs on four points, none covered by a feed product: Eligibility checking instead of topic matching — criteria are read from the notice and checked individually against the profile, with a per-criterion met / missing / unclear result and a source quote. The unlock report — which one-time measure opens the most blocked volume, ranked by cost-benefit. No existing product tells an SME why it structurally loses. Backward schedule with a reality check — computed back from the submission deadline, including the buyer-questions cutoff, and honest when a required certificate takes longer than the remaining time. Bid kit instead of a link — proposal outline, evidence checklist, and draft questions to the contracting authority, derived from exactly those criteria marked unclear. arget user: owner-managed SMEs, 10–100 employees, in trades that could bid publicly but don't do it systematically. The buyer is the managing director. Willingness to pay is real because a single won contract exceeds an annual licence by orders of magnitude.