The Tenderlake API lets customers pull trusted procurement intelligence into their own systems and AI pipelines. Secure, customer-scoped access to matched opportunities, AI assessments, and clear rationale, without outsourcing strategic advantage.
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For a decade, Tenderlake has helped organisations reliably identify every public-sector opportunity that is genuinely relevant to their products and services, across markets, languages, and complex scopes.
Today, we’re taking the next step.
We’re introducing the Tenderlake API: a secure, read-first API that lets customers pull Tenderlake’s procurement intelligence directly into their own systems and internal AI pipelines.
This is a response to how our larger customers already work, and where tender intelligence and bid writing technology is heading.
As our customer base has grown, a clear pattern has emerged.
Tenderlake plays a critical role as the system that reliably identifies every opportunity that should be considered, and does so with a precision that would be extremely difficult and costly to replicate internally.
For smaller teams, Tenderlake can be used as a complete system: discovery, distribution, evaluation, and decision support in one place.
For larger more complex organisations, they typically have their own internal platforms, data warehouses, workflows, and increasingly, sophisticated AI pipelines. They don't want another monolithic tool. They want high-quality, structured tender intelligence they can trust and integrate.
Many of our customers already export matched opportunities from Tenderlake and process them internally in highly tailored ways. In fact, it was customer demand at this end of the market that originally pushed us to build more advanced export capabilities.
The API is the natural evolution of that demand.
In plain terms, the Tenderlake API is a secure integration layer that allows customers to programmatically access their Tenderlake data and intelligence.
Using the API, customers can:
Access is customer-scoped and permissioned. Every API key is tied to a specific customer account, and responses only include data that customer is entitled to see.
The API is REST-based, versioned, documented via OpenAPI/Swagger, and designed for predictable ingestion: paging, stable identifiers, and deterministic behaviour that works well in automated jobs.
This API is not just about connecting Tenderlake to CRMs.
It’s designed for customers who want to feed high-quality procurement signals into their own internal decision systems, whether that’s BI tooling, workflow automation, or LLM-based pipelines that enrich, score, route, and prioritise opportunities.
A common pattern we see emerging looks like this:
The API is designed to support exactly this kind of architecture.
It’s worth being explicit about what we are not trying to build.
Tenderlake is not a bid-writing AI, and the API is not a way to outsource your most valuable strategic thinking.
There was a time when we considered whether Tenderlake should generate detailed bid drafts by combining procurement documents with customers’ internal knowledge bases and past submissions. In practice, two things became clear.
First, organisations are understandably reluctant to share their most confidential materials with third parties.
Second, and more importantly, internal AI pipelines are rapidly becoming a decisive competitive advantage. Many of our larger customers invest heavily in these systems, and they rightly see them as a battlefield where contracts are won or lost.
In the near future, bids will increasingly be written by LLMs and reviewed by experienced bid professionals. What you don’t want is a third-party system producing similar bids for you and your competitors.
Our role is different: to give you the most complete, precise, and trustworthy view of the opportunity landscape, and let your own systems do what only they should do.
One reason Tenderlake continues to stand out for complex organisations is our ability to handle nuance.
Customers can describe highly specific products and services, including detailed scope boundaries and exclusions, and rely on Tenderlake to match accordingly. EU-focused customers benefit from a single description that works across all procurement languages, with non-English notices available in English inside Tenderlake.
The API exposes this same intelligence, rather than flattening it into crude keyword signals.
The Tenderlake API is launching in beta.
This means it’s stable enough to build real integrations on, but we expect to refine ergonomics and add endpoints based on customer feedback. During the beta period, we are not charging separately for API usage.
API access is available to customers on our latest plans. The API access does not replace the current Tenderlake platform. It has been designed for teams with the technical capabilities and resources to integrate it into their existing system. This does not impact customers who continue using the standard Tenderlake platform and workflows.
We believe the future of procurement technology is modular.
Best-in-class intelligence feeds best-in-class internal systems. Competitive advantage lives in how organisations combine data, judgement, and automation, not in one-size-fits-all tools.
The Tenderlake API is designed to support exactly that future.
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