Upcoming tender notifications, inside Claude

Notification is the easy half of the problem and the half everyone sells. Tell me when something matching these keywords appears. Fine, except keywords are a poor proxy for relevance in procurement, where the same requirement is described four different ways depending on which agency wrote it and which decade their template dates from.

Describing what you bid on to Claude in plain English works better than a keyword string, because the description survives the vocabulary changing. Ask what has been published recently that fits the kind of work you do, and the match is made against the substance of the notice. Then ask whether the buyer has run something similar before, and the notification becomes a decision.

There is a reason to prefer this to another alerting product, beyond the matching. Alerts are only useful if somebody reads them, and inboxes are where alerts go to be ignored. A question asked inside the assistant your team already has open is asked when someone is actually paying attention, which is the difference between an alert and a notification that works.