Changelog

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.

The best ways of working in a bid team often live with individual people: how to review the compliance matrix, which references to choose, or what must always be checked before submission. Every time someone uses the AI agent, they have to explain the process again. Now you can teach it once and share it with the whole team.

Teach the agent your workflow once

Under Library → Skills, workspace administrators can create a skill with a name, a short description of when to use it, and the instructions the agent should follow. It could be a process for reviewing mandatory requirements, selecting relevant reference projects, or checking that answers are supported by documentation.

The description helps the agent recognise when the skill is relevant. When a task matches, the agent can retrieve the instructions on its own. You can also ask for a skill in plain language, such as "use the skill for the compliance matrix". Nobody needs to remember a technical name or paste in a long prompt.

One shared approach for the whole team

Skills belong to the workspace, not to one user, bid, or document. This makes established workflows available across your bid work and reduces the risk of valuable know-how disappearing when responsibilities move between people.

Administrators can update the instructions as the way you work evolves. A skill that is not needed right now can be deactivated without deleting its content. Only active skills are available to the agent, and the agent can read them but cannot change them by itself.

Skills differ from AI instructions: AI instructions are standing rules that always apply, while a skill is a specific process the agent retrieves for the right kind of task.

See how to create and use skills in the help centre.

More improvements to the AI agent

• AI agent

  Free users can now try the agent chat with included AI usage before choosing a paid plan.

• User management

  Administrators receive an email when the workspace has used 80% and 100% of its monthly AI capacity.

• AI agent

  Long agent runs are no longer stopped after five minutes.

• AI agent

  Invalid skills no longer stop the rest of an agent run, and duplicate names or a reached capacity limit produce clear error messages.

Slack and Teams have long been set up under Tender alerts, while the Integrations tab showed only some of the systems you actually connect Cobrief to. If you wanted to check whether Slack was still connected, or who had connected SharePoint, you had to know where to look. Now it is all on one page.

Every integration in one list

The Integrations tab has been rebuilt as a single row list, split into Workspace and Personal. Flowcase, Slack and Microsoft Teams are shared across the workspace and managed by administrators. SharePoint connects with your own account, and gives the agent access to the documents you have access to yourself.

Each row shows the name, a short explanation of what the integration does for you, and its status. If it is connected you see a quiet dot along with the account and date, and the buttons sit right there in the row: Configure and Disconnect, with no hidden menus to dig through. If access has lapsed, the row says so immediately, with an explanation and a button to reconnect. The confirmation when you disconnect now tells you what actually happens to your alerts.

Alert rules still live under Tender alerts, and there is a link to them at the bottom of the page so nobody searches in vain. An overview of what Cobrief connects to is in the help centre, along with the setup for alerts in Microsoft Teams.

The agent points out what is not connected

If something is still unconnected, a discreet drawer sits below the composer on the agent surface: "Connect Cobrief to your apps", with the logos of whatever is missing. Hover a logo and the text switches to what you get out of it, for example alerts about new tenders in Teams. Click, and you go straight to where the connection is set up.

The drawer disappears on its own once everything is connected, and you can hide it with the cross if it is not relevant to you.

Improvements in this release

• Market insights

  Email, phone and website in the insight panels are clickable, so you get in touch with the supplier or buyer directly.

• Proposals

  The empty agent chat in the bid room has a Quality assurance category with suggestions for the rounds before submission: proofreading, checking against the requirements, risk analysis and mandatory requirements.

• AI agent

  The Agent button shows the status of the task it opens: that the agent is working, that it is waiting for an answer, or that it finished while you were somewhere else.

• Pipeline

  You can open the pipeline status settings straight from the pipeline, instead of finding your way there via the workspace settings.

• Tender search

  View options in search now live in the address, so a link carries the way you were looking at the results.

• User management

  Relative timestamps show the full date and time when you hover them.

Smaller fixes and polish

• Integrations

  Lost Slack access is now shown even if you have no alert rules set up.

• Pipeline

  A custom status can be archived once the tenders have been moved off it.

• Tender search

  Fixed sorting and the result counter in the search summary.

• Tender search

  An error in the test alert no longer locks the save button, and the ghost row when creating an alert rule is gone.

• Integrations

  New exemption codes for award criteria from Doffin are now read correctly.

• Proposals

  Submission deadline is used consistently as the term in the bid room.

If you work in Cobrief all day, you would rather not move your hand to the mouse just to change page or start a new tender. At the same time, some actions did serious things in one click without asking, such as restoring an old version of a document everyone else was working in. The past two weeks went to both.

The command palette takes you where you are going

⌘K, or Ctrl+K on Windows, opens the palette anywhere in the app. It now carries the page's own actions too, not just navigation. When you are in search, Hide side panel and New tender sit where you expect them, alongside Ask the AI agent.

Key hints look the same across the app: the key first, the explanation after. Windows users see Ctrl where ⌘ used to be hardcoded. As soon as you start typing, the selection jumps back to the first hit, so Enter does what you expect, including after you have cleared the search field and typed something new.

The shortcuts are collected in the help centre.

Actions you cannot undo ask first

Restoring from the version history used to write back the whole document, for everyone who was in it, in one click and with no explanation. Now a confirmation names the date you are restoring to, and the preview says clearly which version you are looking at. The version list has the full date on each entry and a badge on the current one.

Error messages no longer vanish before you have had a chance to read them either. Notifications have a close button, handle several lines of text, and errors carrying a reference ID stay until you close them yourself.

And an important fix for everyone who submits on Word templates: exporting filled-in templates could truncate the document and lose answers if a field spanned several paragraphs. That is fixed, and filling in templates now keeps the whole content.

Accessibility across the app

• User management

  The collapsed menu rail can be operated with the keyboard.

• Proposals

  Edit and delete on comments are reachable with both keyboard and touch.

• User management

  Modals have accessible names, and tables tell assistive technology how they are sorted.

• User management

  Tooltips are tied to the button they belong to, so screen readers read them out.

• Tender search

  The remove button on filter chips in the insight panels can be reached with keyboard and touch.

• User management

  Icon buttons without visible text have names, and each action uses one and the same icon across the app.

• User management

  Grey tones and text sizes have been reviewed for legibility, in both light and dark mode.

Smaller fixes and polish

• Proposals

  Enter behaves the same way in every comment field.

• Proposals

  A document that fails to load shows a skeleton and "Try again" instead of an empty page.

• Proposals

  Uploads no longer disappear quietly if the file dialog survives a page refresh.

• Proposals

  Tasks in the bid room are sorted server-side, and the board view has visible filters and search.

• ProposalsThe move-to-folder dialog works again.
• MobileThe upgrade modal is usable on a phone.
• AI agentThe knowledge base shows the correct "Last modified".
• Tender search

  Loading states in logged-out search and on the tender page are fixed.

Tender work is screen work, and for many people the day stretches well past office hours. Dark mode has been one of the most requested things from you, and now it is here, across the whole app.

You choose between system, light and dark

The setting sits in the account menu in the bottom left and under Your profile. The two stay in sync, so you can switch wherever you happen to be, without hunting for the "right" place to do it.

Choose to follow the system and Cobrief changes along with your machine. Choose light or dark and it stays that way across sessions and any device you log in on. The whole app is covered: search, pipeline, tasks, calendar, bid rooms, market insights and the agent surface.

Documents are a deliberate exception. Tender documents, bid texts and templates keep a paper-white background even in dark mode, because that is how the text will actually look when it is submitted. You should never have to guess how a paragraph will read at the buyer's end.

We went through contrast and legibility in both modes along the way, rather than simply inverting the colours. Status colours, badges, tables, search highlights and form controls have their own values for dark backgrounds, and the borders around buttons and fields are strong enough to show where you can click. In a few places light mode got better from the same work: selected rows and card shadows are clearer than before.

Other improvements in this period

• User management

  The main menu can be pinned open, so you see the names of the menu items instead of just icons. The choice is remembered for next time.

• Proposals

  You can create a fill-in template straight from the bid room, instead of going via a task or the agent.

• AI agent

  If the workspace runs out of AI capacity you now get an explanation with the reset date and a way forward, plus a warning before you hit the limit.

• AI agent

  AI capacity is now enforced the same way across all AI features, not just in the chat.

• AI agentThe agent uses Claude Sonnet 5 as its default model.
• BriefEvaluation criteria are generated faster.
• User management

  Pricing and plans has been cleaned up into a plain plan picker with a slider for AI capacity, and usage has its own tab.

• Proposals

  Tender documents are available even when the side menu is collapsed, and the whole row is clickable.

Smaller fixes and polish

• User management

  The error page is friendlier, with Coby and a way back.

• Tender searchPrivate tenders show a meaningful tab title.
• Tender search

  Fixed a validation error for procurement codes with older organisation numbers.

• Tender search

  The side menu highlights the inbox by default again.

• Proposals

  Task filters no longer wrap over the header in narrow panels.

• Brief

  The brief no longer shows text while the analysis is still running.

• User management

  The appearance options in the profile dialog can be clicked across the whole row.

• AI agent

  Action links containing parentheses in the agent chat point to the right place.

• User management

  Fixed an issue where the subscription could show the wrong dates.

Sometimes it is quicker to show than to explain. A requirement buried in a tender document, a row in a price sheet that does not add up, a table from the buyer's portal: typing it out takes time, and the details that matter are often the ones lost in the retyping.

You can attach images straight in the chat

Paste a screenshot with Cmd+V, drag a file into the chat, or pick it from the file picker. The image sits as an attachment next to your message, and you can remove it again before you send.

The agent reads the image along with your question, so you can ask about what you are actually looking at: what does this clause mean, can you find the discrepancy in this table, help me answer this requirement. The image stays in the conversation, so it is still the context you are working from several messages later.

Improvements to attachments

• AI agent

  Images are handled alongside the other files you attach to a conversation, and appear as their own cards with upload status.

• AI agent

  Upload error messages are translated and explain what went wrong.

Handing a task to the AI agent and then watching a spinner is a poor use of your time. You cannot tell whether it understood the task, how far it has come, or whether waiting is worth it. We have rebuilt the whole agent surface around two questions: what is happening right now, and what can you do in the meantime.

You see what the agent is doing while it does it

The status line tells you what the agent is working on, how long it has been at it, and how many tool calls it has made. If you want to interrupt, Esc sits right there in the same line as a visible reminder.

Open the reasoning and it reads like a story rather than a raw log. Repeated steps collapse into a single line with a count, "Searched the knowledge base · 3 times", instead of quietly disappearing. The steps hang together as a tree, and long thoughts are cut with an explicit "Show N hidden lines" rather than being silently truncated. The heading summarises the turn as a whole, not whichever step happened to come last.

While you wait, the surface shows short tips about things in Cobrief you may not have picked up yet. And when the agent uses a skill, such as the built-in skill for writing bids, it is named in the chat.

You can write the next message while Coby works

If you have already thought of your next question, write it straight away. Press Enter while the agent is working and the message is queued behind the composer instead of interrupting it. The queue takes several messages, and you can edit or remove them for as long as they sit there. When you really do want to stop, use Esc or the stop button.

If the agent asks a question along the way, you can minimise it to a slim strip above the composer, read the context behind it in peace, and bring the question back up. Before, you had to close the card to read the summary, which left the question unanswered.

Coby, peeking over the edge of the composer, is not just decoration. He shows whether the agent is thinking, waiting for you, or done.

The agent surface is documented in the help centre.

More improvements to the agent

• AI agent

  Tables and data blocks in answers render as real tables and code blocks with a copy button, instead of running text.

• AI agent

  Long choice lists in the agent's questions have search and clearer keyboard navigation.

• AI agent

  Every agent answer has a copy button, and the last answer can be regenerated.

• AI agent

  The tab title tells you when the agent has finished or is waiting for an answer, so you can work in another tab while it runs.

• AI agent

  Attachments appear as their own cards with upload status, and upload errors are translated and understandable.

• AI agent

  Below the composer, the suggestions cross-fade into keyboard shortcuts as soon as you start typing.

• AI agent

  The welcome screen and "Recent projects" have been tightened up to match the rest of the surface.

• Proposals

  The approval card in bid work now follows the same pattern as the other question cards.

Smaller fixes and polish

• Mobile

  Fixed an issue where the agent surface could not be scrolled vertically on mobile.

• AI agent

  The stop button releases the composer immediately, and no longer lights up when it is disabled.

• AI agent

  The seconds counter in the status line no longer resets when you reload the page.

• AI agent

  The out-of-AI-capacity notice stacks instead of being cut off on narrow screens.

• AI agent

  Long question titles are clamped instead of bursting the dialog.

• AI agent

  Fixed an issue where empty agent threads could be created.

• AI agent

  The agent chat scrolls correctly again while answers stream in.