Lucius AI

Automating public tenders with AI.

[Lucius AI @LuciusLabs]

Thank you @GoogleStartups. Since the story, the index has grown from 210,000 to more than 315,000 public tenders.

[Google for Startups @GoogleStartups]

What can one founder build with the right AI and cloud infrastructure?

For @LuciusLabs founder Davor Jerković, the answer is a global tender platform operating across five continents, powered by Google Cloud.

Here’s how AlloyDB, Gemini + MCP help one founder operate at global scale 🧵

[Google for Startups @GoogleStartups]

What can one founder build with the right AI and cloud infrastructure?

For @LuciusLabs founder Davor Jerković, the answer is a global tender platform operating across five continents, powered by Google Cloud.

Here’s how AlloyDB, Gemini + MCP help one founder operate at global scale 🧵

[Lucius AI @LuciusLabs]

On the Google Cloud blog: how Lucius AI runs a 210,000-tender platform on AlloyDB with one operator. ScaNN search went from 1.14 s to 24 ms (47x), with reranking inside the database. Read it: https://t.co/ZLEEvGA2TU @googlecloud

[Lucius AI @LuciusLabs]

Lucius AI is now live on Google Cloud Marketplace.

Tender analysis, page-cited compliance matrices, and bid drafting for public sector teams. Now available through your Google Cloud account.

https://t.co/UMB39oVEcf

[Lucius AI @LuciusLabs]

Your bid team’s worst enemy is not the competition. It is page 47.

One missed mandatory requirement kills a winnable bid on a technicality. Lucius reads the whole pack and cites the exact page for every requirement it finds.

https://t.co/WOzRmDDIlF

[Lucius AI @LuciusLabs]

We analysed 68,717 public tenders. The median buyer gives you 15 days to answer a pack hiding 45 mandatory requirements.

Nobody reads everything at that pace. Lucius does, and cites the exact page for every requirement it finds.

https://t.co/WOzRmDDIlF

[Lucius AI @LuciusLabs]

@iAmWallEBot Killer clauses. The disqualifying requirement, the penalty trap, the contradiction buried on page 247. The stuff that loses you the bid before anyone reads your pitch. Ghosts are harder, can't help there 🫥

[Lucius AI @LuciusLabs]

When I started this, the honest feedback was: "cool idea, no customers."

Since then: a Tier-1 defence prime reached out cold. Google for Startups backing. Sovereign infra (CMEK, VPC-SC, EU + AU).

The wedge that landed: AI that finds the clause that disqualifies your bid, not AI that writes it.

Compliance-first. Still early, still shipping.

[Lucius AI @LuciusLabs]

Plot twist:

Cold inbound from a Tier-1 defence prime. The kind of company whose revenue has more zeros than my entire codebase has lines.

Sat there for a minute trying to figure out if it was real.

Back to shipping.

[Lucius AI @LuciusLabs]

try:
build_startup()
except RejectionError:
keep_shipping()

Caught a RejectionError from Fil Rouge Capital. Debug. Refactor. Go again.

The code is running:
-Listed on @BidSolutions
-Shipping forensic updates.

Building in silence, but not invisible.

https://t.co/TSHPJMbubm

#BuildInPublic

[Lucius AI @LuciusLabs]

For anyone who prefers LinkedIn for feedback or introductions:
https://t.co/0KwWKiDqwM

[Lucius AI @LuciusLabs]

Built an AI tool for government tender compliance.

Weeks of work.
Zero customers so far.
Not because the problem isn’t real but because distribution is harder than building.

Back to outreach and demos.

[Lucius AI @LuciusLabs]

Lucius AI automates the forensic analysis of government tenders, cutting 20-hour compliance reviews down to 5 minutes.

Lucius AI

I got tired of watching Bid Managers lose weekends to 500-page PDFs, so I built a forensic auditor for government tenders.

It scans massive contract documents (JBCC, GCC, SBD forms) to instantly find hidden penalty clauses and mandatory compliance risks.

The metric: Cuts a 20-hour manual compliance check down to ~5 minutes.

Built by a solo founder. Looking for brutal feedback from anyone in construction or gov-tech.

🔗 https://t.co/J7TLAyb0M8

[Lucius AI @LuciusLabs]

@solex001 That is the goal. We know V1 won't be perfect especially with complex OCR edge cases. We need partners who are willing to break it so we can fix it fast. If you spot a glitch, you're not annoying us; you're helping us build the standard.

[Lucius AI @LuciusLabs]

Government contractors spend days manually copy-pasting requirements from 100-page PDFs.

I spent my Christmas break building an AI to fix it. 🎄💻

Meet Lucius AI: It shreds https://t.co/KP2nC4QJue tenders, finds every "Shall/Must" clause, and builds a Compliance Matrix in 30 seconds.

Looking for 5 beta testers to try and break it.

Link in bio. 👇 #BuildInPublic #govtech #ArtificialIntelligence #SaaS

[Lucius AI @LuciusLabs]

@solex001 Exactly. It’s the unglamorous, silent problems that usually cost teams the most money (and sanity). Appreciate you seeing the vision! 🤝

[Lucius AI @LuciusLabs]

I've spent the last 6 months in a cave, obsessively building what I believe is a world-class AI content suite. Today, the final piece of the "Perfection Engine" went live. This is the story of Lucius AI.
https://t.co/76ezuTYJWu

[Lucius AI @LuciusLabs]

@rowancheung I've been teaching myself full-stack dev and just launched my first project, inspired by newsletters like yours.

It's Lucius, a free & minimal AI chat assistant. Goal is a full platform.

Feedback from you would mean alot.

https://t.co/JdmDnfY1qA
#buildinpublic