The Brain · one engine, five modules

YourTransportBrain.

A private intelligence layer, trained on your own bids and built for public transport procurement. Five modules sit on top of it.

Illustration: a tender ranked by Scout, a bid claim with its source citation attached, and an Analyst bid or no-bid assessment.

Categories, not companies

Four ways to bid. One that remembers you.

How economAIcs compares with generic AI, RFP tools and tender finders.
CapabilityGeneric AIRFP toolsTender finderseconomAIcs
In one linePowerful and general, but blind to your bids and your marketSpeed up responses from your content librarySurface the tenders, then leave the winning to youYour brain, your market, built to win
Memory of your bidsSession memory, nothing structured or lastingYour content library, once you load itNoneYour full history, indexed and cited
Knows your transport marketGeneral knowledge, not your marketYour documents, not the marketLists what is publishedPurpose-built for it
Finds opportunities earlyNoNoAlerts once publishedTriage on drop, plus confidence-rated predictions
Helps you decideHelps you writeHelps you respond fasterNoBid or no-bid, with the evidence
Source-cited and auditableOnly if you check it yourselfVaries by toolNot its jobEvery claim cited, full audit trail
Improves as you use itGenerally, but not from your winsGrows your content libraryNoCompounds on your own outcomes

The engine

One Brain, built from your own evidence.

The Brain reads your bid library, your specifications, your policy documents and your past evaluation criteria, and turns them into an intelligence layer you own. Ask it anything in plain English and it answers from your own evidence, with a citation to the source. The five modules sit on top of it.

  • Grounded in your evidence

    It answers only from what it has retrieved from your private library. If the evidence is missing, it flags the gap rather than invent one.

  • Source-cited

    Every claim, score and output carries a reference to the source document in your Brain. Defensible under any procurement audit.

  • No model training on your data

    Contractually guaranteed across every AI vendor in the stack. Your bid history serves you only.

  • Audit-grade by default

    Every retrieval, score and output is logged with a version and timestamp. Not an opt-in feature.

Source 4

A commercial lead's instinct, encoded.

Ten-plus years as a commercial lead in public-transport technology, across payments, ticketing, MaaS and DRT and across bus, rail and ferry, distilled into what evaluators reward and what quietly loses. The Brain checks every output against it, so it bids with hard-won judgement, not a blank slate.

In the app

This is your Brain.

Teach it what you know and feed it your evidence. Every trait and document is cited to its source, and nothing counts until you confirm it. Every module answers from this.

The Brain in the app, showing your learned PersonaThe Brain in the app, showing your Evidence Vault

What your Brain knows

Two layers, one Brain.

Your Brain combines the market it bids into with everything that is uniquely yours. Generic tools have neither.

The market it lives in

  • UK transport tender flow, live from public data and insight sources
  • Contracting-authority behaviour patterns across bus, rail, ferry and tech
  • Evaluation-panel scoring archetypes by sector and contract value
  • Procurement Act 2023 and PPN 017 obligations, native to every output
  • A founder's pattern recognition from a decade in transport technology, encoded as rules (Source 4)

Everything that is yours

  • Your bid history, indexed and source-cited
  • Your evaluators and the language they reward
  • Your bid DNA, extracted from your wins
  • Your blind spots, surfaced where they cost margin
  • Your contract performance, feeding the next bid
  • Your audit trail, live from day one

The modules

Five modules. Artificial intelligence across your whole bid function.

Scout

ForesightLive now

Every tender pre-qualified against your profile, scored before you see it. Plus confidence-rated predictions of what is coming.

Scout is the Brain's continual intelligence: the always-on pipeline. It watches the market for you: live tenders drawn from public data sources, filtered for transport, scored against your ideal-client profile and ranked by bid-strength before a human looks. Around them, its insight sources (budgets, contract end-dates, pre-market notices, funding and policy moves) feed a forward radar of contracts coming back to market and early signals of what is forming, confidence-rated, source-cited, never stated as fact. And it is pushed, not watched: the pipeline comes to you, current every day. The moment you commit to an opportunity, the Brain switches from continual to situational depth: that is the Analyst.

  • Ranked pipeline of qualified opportunities, scored against your profile
  • Confidence-rated predictions of likely future tenders
  • Procurement Act 2023 alignment flag per tender
  • A bid-strength read with stated error bars
Scout's ranked pipeline of live UK transport tenders, scored against your profileScout's Horizon view of confidence-rated predicted future tenders

Analyst

InterrogationLive now

Interrogate a tender, or a market. A two-axis win assessment, drivers first.

The Analyst is the Brain's situational intelligence: summoned the moment you commit, and deep on the situation in front of you. Point it at one tender and it interrogates the requirements, the evaluation model, the competition and the incumbent, then ends with a bid or no-bid decision and the evidence behind it. Point it at a market and it reads demand, maps where the contracts are and profiles who you are up against. The win assessment is two axes, where you stand crossed with how strong the evidence is. Drivers lead and the number follows, never a naked score or percentage.

  • A bid or no-bid decision with the evidence behind it
  • A two-axis win assessment (position crossed with evidence confidence)
  • Competitor and incumbent profile from real award data
  • Evidence-gap detection against the specification
The Analyst interrogating a single tender, with a two-axis win assessmentThe Analyst interrogating a market, mapping demand and competitors

Tactician

DraftingLive now

Writes from your Brain, every paragraph traceable to evidence you own.

Tactician drafts from your own indexed evidence, structured to the evaluation weighting, with every claim cited back to a source document in your library. A compliance check runs throughout for Procurement Act 2023 alignment. Writing is one capability of the Brain, not the headline, and the strategic insight that wins stays human. Live now with our founding cohort.

  • Draft responses to each evaluation criterion
  • A source citation on every claim, back to your Brain
  • Compliance checks as it drafts
  • Your voice and win themes, not generic AI prose
The Tactician bid pipeline, tenders committed to bid organised by stageThe Tactician bid workspace, the scored question set pulled from the tender pack

Steward

CompoundingRolling out

Captures post-award outcomes back into your Brain, so the next bid starts ahead.

Steward picks up where every other tool drops the contract. It tracks performance against your bid commitments through the contract, and fires rebid-window alerts well ahead of re-procurement. It is the compounding layer that takes years of operation to build, and it is what turns a win into an advantage at the next rebid. Rolling out across the pilot.

  • Performance tracked against bid commitments
  • Rebid-window alerts ahead of re-procurement
  • An audit-ready performance evidence base
  • Compounding rebid intelligence over the contract
Preview of the Steward tracking performance against bid commitmentsPreview of the Steward capturing post-award outcomes for the next rebid
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Partner

ConsortiumRolling out

Consortium and gap-fill intelligence, scored on evidence, not instinct.

Partner scores each partner's contribution against the shared response, flags contradictions as they emerge in drafting rather than just before submission, and keeps a clean governance audit trail. Multi-tenant and client-isolated, so each partner sees only what the consortium agreement grants. On the roadmap.

  • Cross-partner contradiction alerts
  • Partner-fit and consistency signals
  • A governance audit trail from day one
  • Client-isolated data for every partner
Preview of the Partner module scoring consortium partner fitPreview of the Partner module's consortium governance and contradiction alerts
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What it means for you

It sets you ahead, and keeps you there.

  • Win more of what you pursue

    You see the right work first and bid from evidence, not guesswork. The result is the only one that counts: more wins from the same pipeline.

  • Bid in a fraction of the time

    The blank page is gone. The Brain drafts from your own evidence and your team adds the judgement that wins, so you spend less time per bid and chase more of them.

  • A moat that compounds

    Every bid makes the next one sharper. Your Brain is built from your own history, so no competitor can copy it, and the lead only widens.

Your data, your control. Never used to train a model, and exportable on exit.

Rather have it done with you?

The Brain is the engine. The Practice is the same intelligence, with senior judgement in the room.

A fixed-scope Win Strategy on a live tender, or an AI Readiness Review of your whole operation. Advice first, build when you choose it.

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