Changelog
Releases 0.3.0 to 0.7.55: New search, AI tools and the English site
Search now understands German compound words and looks inside lots and organizations, three AI tools support the bid decision, and the public site exists in English for the first time, with market data, a glossary and 13 new articles.
Christian··3 min read
Releases 0.3.0 through 0.7.55 shipped in March. The focus was on search, on three new AI tools around the bid decision, and on the public site, which has existed in English since this month.
Search
Result scoring was rebuilt. German compound words are split, so a search for "Dachsanierung" also finds notices that say "Sanierung des Daches". Queries now also reach lot titles and organization names, not just the notice title and description.
The command palette (Ctrl+K or Cmd+K) is the new central entry point: quick access, a preview of a result, recently viewed notices and a live result count. A switch toggles between new notices and the archive.
The search agent wizard gained an "authority level" filter with the levels federal, state, municipal and EU; it applies to exports as well. Contracting authority categories moved from 15 mixed categories to 18 sector-based ones. The default sort order in the result list now leads with what was captured most recently rather than what was published most recently, for notices that arrive late, that is the more useful view.
AI tools
Two new areas support the decision whether a bid is worth it: go/no-go scoring and a requirements checklist.
The AI summary of a notice now starts writing immediately instead of appearing frozen until the first word. Two open tabs no longer produce duplicate summaries.
Collaboration and notifications
Notices can be assigned to entire teams and to several recipients at once; an avatar stack on the notice shows who is on it.
Search agents can additionally deliver their results via Slack. Slack webhooks are created in settings with a name and URL and can be removed there.
New accounts no longer start empty: the automatically created demo search profile is active and sends a daily overview by email from day one.
Account
Changing your email address now rejects an address already in use, and the new address must be confirmed again before it takes effect. API keys are usable and show consumption against their quota.
Public site
The site is now available in English, with its own URLs under /en and matching language references for search engines. Three pages are new: a market data page with continuously updated figures, a glossary with 47 explained procurement terms, and a how it works walkthrough.
The blog grew from 3 to 16 articles, among them three provider comparisons, three case studies and seven guides. Public notice pages are served pre-generated, show a skeleton instead of a blank page while loading, and answer deleted or never-existing addresses with a real error code instead of a seemingly normal page.
Data
Contracting authorities recorded under several slightly different spellings are merged onto one leading record and no longer appear multiple times. In addition, a deep re-scan runs on Sunday nights across the sources of the last 120 days, picking up notices that were changed afterwards or missed initially.
Additional changes
- Notice tabs stay on the selected tab
- "Recently viewed" is actually populated, until now the list stayed empty
- The result list in the search agent wizard links straight to the notices
- Paying customers were in some cases treated as expired trials; that is fixed
The changelog is published monthly. Questions about the updates to [email protected].