Author
Davor Jerković
Founder & CEO of Lucius AI — a compliance-first tender intelligence platform built on Gemini 3 Pro. 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.
The product is solo-built from Mostar, Bosnia. It runs on Google Cloud (EU and Australia sovereign deployments), uses Gemini 3 Pro for clause-vs-clause contradiction detection and File Search for page-cited audit trails, and serves compliance-first customers across the UK, Ireland, EU, US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Backed by Google for Startups.
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.