Purpose
SkimAI is an AI-native government tender platform for UK and EU SMEs, designed to help users bid more intelligently, write tenders faster, and build the buyer relationships that determine whether they win. The platform combines bidding software with a strategy team that has experience winning over £3 billion in public sector contracts.
Main Capabilities
- Tender tracking and coverage: Covers tender opportunities across UK and EU regions, with support for multi-country tracking.
- Bid/no-bid analysis: Scores each opportunity to shorten decision time.
- AI-drafted responses: Generates first drafts based on the user's own case studies, qualifications, methodology, and past winning record, and reviews them against the buyer's scoring criteria.
- Buyer intelligence: Provides buyer research reports and competitive intelligence.
- Pipeline management: Tracks the bidding pipeline and supports team permission controls.
- Skim Advisor agent: Allows conversational queries about tenders, the pipeline, or buyer information, and supports competitor analysis, buyer intelligence mining, award notice data searches, and more.
- Strategy support: Paid packages include one-on-one strategy meetings with senior bid leads, and the enterprise edition includes the Skim bid team writing and strengthening responses.
How to Use
Users can sign up on the official website to use the Skim Advisor agent for free (in the testing phase, with weekly capacity limits), or start a free trial of a paid package. The platform offers different tiers of packages, from free to enterprise, with progressively enhanced features.
Use Cases
- First-time bidders: Gain confidence, structure, and a clear path to winning their first government contract.
- Growing bidders: Increase bid volume without exhausting the team, while maintaining quality.
- Mature bid teams: Optimize win rates, obtain competitive intelligence, and benefit from the discipline of a senior bid team.
- Companies without a bid team: Skim can act as their bid team.
Limitations
- The platform is primarily aimed at UK and EU public sector tenders; other regions are not currently available.
- The free version has limited features, and advanced features require a paid subscription.
- Specific prices and package contents may change; the latest information on the official website shall prevail.
- The platform does not replace the bid lead, but serves as a leverage layer for them.
- Data privacy and security terms vary by package; the enterprise edition includes enhanced data privacy, SSO, audit logs, and more.