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Drafting bid documents

Last updated 2026-08-22

The Documents workspace writes tender paperwork for you — new documents from scratch, or the buyer's own official forms filled in with your company's details.

Open the workspace

In the left sidebar, under "Execution", click "Documents". You land on a page headed "Workspace", with the line "Draft, review and translate your tender documents." and a box that says "Ask a question about your documents...".

Two things can stop you at this point:

  • Free accounts see "Unlock the Documents workspace". Documents is part of the paid plans — click "Upgrade to Professional" or "View plans".
  • If your email address is not confirmed you see "Verify your email to use Documents". Click "Resend verification email" and open the link in your inbox.

Give it the tender first

  1. Click "Tender" under the message box, then search by name, authority or keyword in the "Attach a tender" window. The workspace then has the tender's details and every document the buyer published with it.
  2. Click the "Documents" button with the "+" icon and choose "Upload files" to add your own PDF or Word files, or "Browse all" to reuse files already in the workspace.
  3. Click "Projects" only if you want to work inside a project — picking one and clicking "Continue" starts a fresh chat in that project, so attach the tender and any files again there.
  4. Type what you want and send it.
Tip

There is a shortcut from the tender itself: open the tender, go to its "Documents" tab and click "Generate" next to the file you care about. The workspace opens with that tender pre-attached and that file pre-selected, under a banner naming both — "Generating from tender: … • Document: …".

Drafting bid documents — tender documents

What you can ask for

  • A new document — tender response, proposal, technical description, NDA, memo. You get a Word (.docx) file.
  • A price schedule, bill of quantities or comparison table — ask for a spreadsheet and you get .xlsx or .csv.
  • The buyer's own form, completed: "fill form 4 for this tender". Tendly fetches the real template from the source portal — if it has detectable blanks it fills them in place and keeps the official layout, otherwise it rebuilds a completed file from the template's content in the same format.
  • A translation of an attached document.
  • One of the built-in routines — "Bid / No-Bid Analysis", "Compliance Matrix" or "Tender Response Skeleton": inside a project chat, click "Workflows", pick the routine and click "Use".

What it drafts from

The AI works from three things: the tender's own documents, the files you attached, and your Company Profile, which it reads automatically. A thin profile produces thin drafts, so fill in Settings → "Company profile" before your first real bid.

It does not invent facts. Anything it cannot establish — a certificate number, a reference project, a price — comes back as a visible "[TO BE CONFIRMED: ...]" marker in a draft, or "[TO BE COMPLETED: ...]" in a filled-in form, for you to finish.

Drafting bid documents — documents

Getting the file out

Each finished document appears as a card showing its name and format — click the card, or the download icon on its right edge, to save the file. The formats are .docx, .xlsx and .csv; there is no PDF export. When a tender was attached, the file is also filed under Settings → "Knowledge Base""Generated Documents".

Note

Drafting here does not cost credits — it is included in the paid plans, listed on our pricing page. Read everything before you submit it: the AI can get details wrong.

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