Author
Davor Jerković
Founder & CEO of Lucius AI, a compliance-first tender intelligence platform built on Google Gemini with procurement-specific analysis pipelines. Writes about procurement compliance, RFP analysis, bid management and AI-assisted proposal drafting.
Lucius AI exists because every bid team I have spoken to keeps losing on the same things: missed mandatory clauses, contradictions between sections of the same tender, and proposals drafted faster than they were reviewed. The platform was designed around those failure modes, not the writing speed-up that most AI bid tools sell.
Lucius AI is built by its founder. It runs on Google Cloud in the EU, reads scanned pages as well as text, cites the requirements to their pages with a quote from the source, finds contradictions between clauses, and is made for compliance-first bid teams in the UK, Ireland, the EU, the US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Backed by the Google for Startups Cloud Program.
Writing on this blog focuses on procurement compliance, RFP audit techniques, framework-specific guidance (JCT, NEC4, FIDIC, ASDEFCON, NHS) and where AI helps versus where it makes bids worse. The goal is to publish things bid managers can actually use, not generic AI-tooling thought leadership.
Elsewhere: the Google Cloud blog published his account of the platform's architecture in September 2026: Solo founder runs a global tender platform on AlloyDB and MCP. In October 2026 Lucius AI took 2nd place in the Google AI Agents Hackathon 2026 (Poland).
Outside work, his poem “The Sound Between Two Houses” was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize 2026 in poetry, placing it in the top 3% of entrants (official shortlist).