Changelog

Once a bid has been submitted, both the response and what you learned from the result often remain in folders and inboxes. You can now keep that work in Cobrief and use it as a foundation when writing the next bid.

Save the response for future use

When a bid is marked as submitted, you can save the response directly to the knowledge base. Text documents and completed Word and Excel templates are selected by default, and you choose what to keep. You can do the same from the menu in the bid workspace for bids that have already been submitted.

The content is stored in a dedicated folder for the bid and can be used by the agent. If you save the bid again after making a change, the previous version is replaced. This prevents multiple near-identical copies and gives you a tidy foundation for reuse.

You decide which parts of the response are worth building on. Strong solution descriptions, cover letters and completed templates can support future work without anyone having to export, organise and upload them again.

Use the results in your next bid

The results you register also carry forward. The agent can use outcomes, reasons for losing, comments and contract values from previous tenders. The agent can also search award decision letters and disclosure documents that you have uploaded to the tenders.

For example, you can ask the agent to identify recurring reasons for losing, summarise what the feedback says about pricing, or check a new draft against what you learned last time. The agent identifies which tender the information came from, so the team can return to the source.

Disclosure documents are clearly marked as competitor material and are used only when the agent needs them. They are not added to the knowledge base or automatically included in bid drafts.

This means the work from one tender can become a stronger starting point for the next. Read more about how to register results and upload award decision letters.

More improvements to bid work

• Pipeline

  Tenders cancelled by the buyer automatically move to the correct status when Cobrief receives the cancellation notice.

• Proposals

  Macro-enabled Word and Excel files can now be uploaded to Cobrief.

• Proposals

  Long document titles no longer overlap metadata when the agent is open beside the bid.

• Proposals

  Remaining placeholder text is removed more reliably from bid responses.

Discussions about a tender often happen in Cobrief, while the request to follow up has to be sent somewhere else. You can now mention a colleague directly in a comment, keeping the conversation and notification in one place.

Bring the right person in with @

Type @ in a comment on the tender or a bid task. Cobrief shows the people in the workspace, and you select the person who should see the comment. The mention appears in the text, so everyone reading the conversation can see who the question or follow-up is for.

This works for quick clarifications and tasks that need a particular specialist. You can ask a colleague to check a requirement, answer a question or review a response without creating a separate task just to get their attention.

The notification opens the right conversation

Your colleague receives an activity notification when the mention is saved. If email notifications for collaboration are enabled, they also receive it by email. The link opens the tender or bid task with the comment visible, so the recipient does not have to search for the context.

When a comment is edited, only people mentioned for the first time are notified. Unchanged mentions do not trigger new notifications, and you are not notified when you mention yourself. This keeps the activity list tidy even if the comment is updated several times.

Mentions work for both existing members and invited users in the workspace. The team can therefore use the same workflow as soon as an invitation has been sent.

More improvements in this release

• Tender search

  Large result lists load more smoothly, and counts above 10,000 appear without first counting the entire result set.

• Tender search

  Saved searches now support the same Danish and international location filters as tender search.

• Tender search

  Suggested evaluation criteria no longer repeat active keywords in another grammatical form.

• Onboarding

  The trial now includes more AI capacity, allowing new users to test more of the bid workflow.

• User management

  Sign-in is clearer on public pages, and notification links offer to switch to the correct workspace when needed.

Smaller fixes and polish

• Tender search

  The morning brief opens multiple matches correctly in classic Outlook and follows the same order as the pipeline when relevance scores are equal.

• Tender search

  The morning brief shows a useful preview in Apple Mail when a tender has changed.

• Tender search

  Multi-stage tenders are no longer shown as expired just because the prequalification deadline has passed.

• Onboarding

  The verification link in the in-app notification works again.

• User management

  Users without access now see a clear page instead of a broken app shell.

Much of the knowledge and follow-up involved in bid work lives in other systems. When the agent cannot access it, your team has to find the information and move it between tools. You can now connect the agent directly to more of the systems your team already uses.

Connect the systems you work in

Under Settings → Integrations, each user can connect the agent to Linear, Notion, Atlassian for Jira and Confluence and Oda. These join the existing connections to SharePoint, OneDrive and Flowcase.

The connections use the access you already have in the source system. This means the agent can find a relevant Jira issue, read a page in Notion or use context from Linear without the content first being copied to Cobrief. The available actions depend on each system and the user's own permissions there.

When you start a conversation, you can turn connections on or off from the plus menu beside the message field. Your choice applies to that conversation, so the agent can only access the sources relevant to the task. You can also set the default before starting a new conversation.

Decide what the agent is allowed to do

A connection can give the agent both read-only tools and actions that change something in the external system. Administrators can therefore manage permissions for each tool across the workspace.

A tool can be allowed, require approval or be blocked. Reading is generally allowed, while actions that write or change data ask for approval. When approval is required, the agent pauses before carrying out the action and shows what it wants to do. You can approve or reject it directly in the conversation.

This lets the team use more up-to-date context without giving the agent unrestricted permission to make changes. Connections can also be removed at any time in the integration settings.

More improvements to the agent

• AI bid manager

  New users get a single getting-started guide and a personal activity overview on the agent surface.

• Connectors

  The agent starts faster in workspaces with large numbers of CVs and reference projects from Flowcase.

• AI bid manager

  Conversations can continue even if they previously used an AI model that is no longer available.

A tender alert should help you decide where to spend your time, not move the entire search into your inbox. The new Morning Brief makes the most important matches easier to assess at a glance and takes you to the right selection in Cobrief when something looks interesting.

Top match and updates are clearly separated

The scheduled Morning Brief opens with the number of new matches and highlights the best one. The card shows a short summary, deadline, and relevance score, with a clear action for assessing the tender in Cobrief. Other new matches are grouped below, while updated tenders, planned opportunities, and results each have their own section. This means you no longer need to interpret a long, flat list to understand what has actually happened since the last briefing.

The cards are easier to scan on mobile devices and in email clients with limited support. The entire row is clickable, the copy is tighter, and labels and colours are used consistently across sections.

Continue with the same selection in Cobrief

When you open an alert, the pipeline shows which notices were included in that specific email. The tabs follow the same groups as the email, so "new tenders", "updates", and "results" mean the same thing before and after you click. The link for more matches also opens the complete selection, not a new search that may have changed since the email was sent.

Alerts sent immediately now have their own New tender variant with the same visual language, focused on a single match. Saved searches are also clearly distinguished from your company's Morning Brief, so recipients can see which type of alert they received.

More improvements to emails

• Tender search

  The Morning Brief now renders more reliably in Outlook, on mobile devices, and in dark mode.

• Tender search

  Invitations, collaboration alerts, and other emails from Cobrief now use the same header, button style, and colours.

• Tender search

  Links for unsubscribing and managing saved searches are clearer and more reliable.

• Pipeline

  The pipeline can now be filtered by scheme type to find framework agreements, qualification schemes, and dynamic purchasing systems, and scheme type can also be shown as a sortable list column.

• Pipeline

  Deadlines can now be removed from private tenders.

When you work with the agent over time, repeating the same preferences and work habits in every new conversation gets tedious. You can now ask the agent to remember what should carry forward, without sharing those memories with anyone else.

Your way of working carries into the next conversation

Ask the agent to remember a stable preference or work habit as part of an ordinary conversation. This might be how you prefer answers to be structured, a working method you use often, or another lasting choice that makes your collaboration more relevant. You can also ask the agent to update a memory when your needs change, or forget it when it no longer applies.

Memories are private to you. This remains true when you are working with colleagues in a shared workspace or bid. Other users do not receive your memories, and their memories do not affect how the agent responds to you.

The agent uses only memories that are relevant to the conversation at hand. Previous preferences can therefore help when they fit, without everything you have saved being pulled into every answer. Safeguards reject secrets and payment details, so agent memory is intended for work habits and preferences rather than sensitive storage.

You can see and control everything the agent remembers

When a memory is added, updated, or removed through conversation, the change appears directly in the chat. If the agent interpreted your request incorrectly, you can undo it immediately and carry on without hunting for a separate setting.

The full overview is under Library → Agent Memory. There you can add memories yourself, search them, edit their contents, rename them, and delete them. This makes it easy to tidy up when your way of working changes and to control exactly what the agent can use in later conversations.

Use the conversation for a quick change and the library when you need the complete picture. Memories remain tied to your user and are managed in one place, whichever workspace or bid you open. The agent and agent memory are also documented in the help centre.

More improvements

• AI bid manager

  Type / in the message field to find and select one of your team's skills before sending.

• AI bid manager

  The agent uses the account language when the desired reply language is unclear.

• Proposals

  Open text documents update live while the agent writes.

• AI bid managerMalformed action links render as usable buttons.
• Proposals

  New documents created by the agent appear in the bid workspace.

It is easy to follow a tender until the submission deadline, but harder to find out who won and what the contract was actually worth. The result is often published long after the bid work has ended. Cobrief now tracks result notices from Doffin and TED as part of your company's tender search.

New results are kept separate

Contract awards, voluntary ex ante transparency notices, contract modifications, and cancellations that match the search profile appear under Pipeline → Results → New. Here you will find results from the past two months, sorted by publication date. They are not mixed with active tenders in the inbox, and older results automatically leave "New" when they no longer need attention.

Open Search and select the results stage to explore a broader set of notices. The list shows who won, how many bids were submitted, the actual and originally announced contract value, and any available result documents. This lets your team follow competitors, compare outcomes with its own assessments, and spot contracts that may be put out to tender again.

Results are included in tender alerts

Tender alerts now also include new results that match the search profile. The morning email briefing has a separate results section, while Slack and Teams alerts count results alongside new tenders. In the pipeline, active and concluded tenders remain separate.

The results stage is enabled for every workspace. Administrators who only want to follow planned and active tenders can turn it off under Settings → Tender search → Search overview.

Tender search previously limited the country selection to Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Germany, even though Cobrief already ingests European notices from TED. Teams monitoring markets outside these five countries could therefore not narrow their searches, alerts and insights as needed. The entire EEA and EFTA area is now available.

Choose from 31 European countries

The country selector now includes every EU country, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Your selections apply throughout the search setup: standard tender searches, saved searches and alerts, place of performance, market insights, and the settings the agent uses when assisting your team.

This means that a team monitoring the Dutch, Austrian and Irish markets, for example, can select those specific countries instead of working around a fixed Nordic default. Existing searches and default selections have been preserved, so the expanded coverage does not change the setup you already use.

Regional filters follow each country's structure

Location filters use each country's official NUTS classification. You can open a country and select the relevant regions at the level that makes sense there, instead of using a model designed for Norway. Germany and France use broader regional levels, while the other countries can be narrowed down in greater detail.

Notices without a valid regional code for the place of performance appear under "Other locations" rather than being excluded from the search. This makes it clear which notices have been classified by region while keeping relevant notices with incomplete location data in the results.

Improvements to search and public tender pages

• Tender search

  Public tender pages load significantly less JavaScript and fewer fonts, so content appears faster on mobile.

• Tender search

  Signed-in users without a workspace can use public tender pages without being redirected.

• Tender search

  Selecting "All countries" now keeps the full country selection instead of reverting to the workspace's default countries.

• Market insights

  Insight panels now clearly indicate when the notice list is limited to the first 500 results.

• Tender search

  Selection criteria from the latest eForms version are now parsed correctly, and affected notices have been reprocessed.

The award letter often arrives long before Doffin, Norway's public procurement portal, publishes who won, and sometimes no public notice is published at all. This has made it easy for your team's own result, the reason for a loss and the supporting documents to end up scattered across inboxes and local folders, separate from the Norwegian public data. You can now record the outcome while it is still fresh and keep everything on the tender page.

Record the result when the decision arrives

When a tender is moved to Won, Lost or Cancelled, a short form opens with the outcome already selected. For a win, you can confirm or change the contract value. For a loss, you can select a structured reason, such as price, quality, references or a non-compliant bid, and add a comment.

If you have the award letter to hand, you can drop it straight into the same form. Everything is optional, so you can still update the status quickly and fill in the details later. The form appears whether you change the status from the pipeline, Kanban board, card or list view, or from the tender page itself.

Your result and Doffin data in one place

The new Results section appears as soon as the tender is won, lost or cancelled, without waiting for Doffin. It shows the outcome, reason for the loss, comment, contract value and who recorded the result. You can edit the information when you know more.

Award letters, documents obtained through access to competitors' bids and other result documents have their own document list. Cobrief automatically recognises the document type and labels it when classification is complete. By default, these documents are not added to the brief or the knowledge base.

If Doffin has published a contract award notice, it appears in a clearly labelled subsection. This keeps the result recorded by your own team distinct from the Norwegian public information, while making both available in one place.

Improvements to bid work

• Pipeline

  Kanban columns show the correct number of tenders and let you load more without leaving the view.

• Proposals

  Items in the bid workspace can be sorted by name, last modified or size, and the search and sort settings are preserved in the URL.

• Proposals

  File uploads show the status of each file, let you retry failed uploads and retain files that have already been added.

• Proposals

  Excel exports show the correct question text for every field and decode HTML entities in the content.

• Proposals

  Danish bid lists are now correctly classified as product selection.