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Lucius AI is a bid analyst. Drop any RFP, tender, or contract in. Lucius extracts every mandatory requirement, flags commercial risks (penalty clauses, liability traps, unbillable costs), generates a compliance matrix, and drafts a first response from your own documents and past bids.

No. It's a copilot, not a replacement. Lucius saves your team hours on forensic analysis, compliance extraction, and first drafts so senior people can spend their time on strategy, win theming, and fine-tuning.

Lucius runs procurement-specific analysis pipelines on Google Gemini: it reads the text of each document directly and scanned pages with Google's vision models, and it drafts from your own documents and past bids. Every requirement it lists carries its page and a quote from the source, and it reads every annex, so buried requirements are not missed.

Yes. There's an interactive demo on the How It Works page. Or skip the tour and try Lucius yourself for free at guest-analysis, no signup required.

No. ChatGPT reads an uploaded PDF and summarises what it notices. Lucius takes the whole set of tender documents (500+ pages, several files), extracts the requirements into a register linked to its page, builds the compliance matrix from it, scans the documents for commercial risk, understands procurement frameworks (JCT, NEC4, FIDIC, GCC, JBCC) and gives a bid verdict: bid, bid with caveats or skip. Detailed comparison: Lucius AI vs ChatGPT.

For forensic risk analysis and compliance-first bid writing, Lucius is purpose-built: it finds problems before you write. For content library management, Loopio is strong. For fast generative drafts, AutogenAI is an option. Side-by-side at Lucius AI vs bid software.

mytender.io focuses on AI-powered first drafts and team collaboration. AutogenAI focuses on generative drafting at speed. Lucius focuses on forensic document analysis: finding risks, compliance gaps, and liability traps before you start writing. Different strengths for different needs. Full breakdown at Lucius AI vs bid software.

UK, EU, US, Australia, and Canada. That covers Contracts Finder + Find a Tender (UK), TED (EU), SAM.gov + Grants.gov (US), AusTender (AU), and CanadaBuys. You can configure target countries, sub-regions (UK county/city, US state, AU territory), CPV codes, and exclusions.

PDF (scanned pages included), Word (.doc and .docx), Excel, images and ZIP archives, up to 40 MB a file and 25 files an upload. Analyses export to Word, Excel and PDF, and drafts to Word and PDF.

Yes. Lucius works for G-Cloud applications, NHS framework agreements, local-authority tenders, and broader UK public-sector contracts. The compliance matrix ensures you meet every mandatory requirement before submission.

Yes. Lucius supports European public-procurement contracts on TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) and the major national portals across the EU.

Yes. Lucius ingests federal opportunities from SAM.gov and grants from Grants.gov, with state-level filtering. Upload any US solicitation (RFP, RFQ, sources sought) and you get the same compliance matrix, risk verdict, and draft as for UK or EU tenders.

Yes. Lucius works across every industry: construction, infrastructure, IT services, healthcare, education, facilities management, professional services. It understands JCT, NEC4, FIDIC, and GCC frameworks used in construction procurement.

The Free plan costs nothing (2 tenders/month). A Pack is €149 one-time for one tender with the full matrix, the document index with its Excel, draft and exports. Team is €2400 a year (2 tenders a month, 2 seats, the founder as your named contact), and Enterprise starts from €2,000/month (unlimited tenders, dedicated support, a 3-month pilot to begin). Start on the Free plan, no credit card. Full breakdown on the pricing page.

Yes. Upload any tender at guest-analysis for a free AI scan. No signup, no card. You'll get the forensic risk report, compliance flags, and key requirements extracted. The Free plan costs nothing: 2 analyses every month.

Yes. Team includes 2 seats by default, extra seats by email. Enterprise gets custom seat counts. Manage members and roles from your dashboard.

Encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest (AES-256, Google Cloud's default). Lucius does not train models on your documents, Google's terms for paid Gemini use do not either, and they are never shared with other customers: they serve your own workspace, your Bid Library and your drafts. You can delete your data at any time. GDPR aligned, and hosted on Google Cloud, whose infrastructure holds ISO 27001 certification and SOC 2 reports; Lucius itself holds neither yet. Full details at the Trust Center.

Lucius is part of Google for Startups. The platform is built on Google Cloud with Google Gemini at its core.