Why We Founded Consultit.ai for UK SMEs

Consultit.ai was founded by Samaksh Singh (Founder, CEO & CTO) and Tisha Bakshi (Co-founder & COO) to help UK SMEs win the contracts they're already qualified for. We're based in London, and we built this company because we kept seeing the same thing happen to good suppliers: they were losing tenders they should have won.

Most SMEs don't lose public-sector bids on price. They lose on the quality score — the written answers that get marked against an evaluator's criteria. A supplier can have the accreditations, the track record, and the team to deliver a contract brilliantly, and still score low because the answer on the page doesn't match what the evaluator's scoring descriptor is actually looking for. The work is real. The writing doesn't reflect it. That gap costs SMEs contracts every single week, and it's almost entirely fixable.

Consultit.ai closes that gap with AI-augmented bid writing built around a 7-stage Bid Studio process — from a pre-analysis compliance gate through drafting, a non-negotiable compliance check, and final submission. Two features sit inside that process specifically to close the evaluator gap: Evaluator Lab, which scores a draft answer the way different evaluator mindsets actually read it, and AI Review, which runs a finished bid through a procurement-evaluator pass before it's ever submitted. Every part of the process is built around the same three things: the tender's actual scoring criteria, mapping evidence to what's being asked for, and how evaluators really behave when they're marking a stack of submissions.

We work with UK SMEs bidding for public and private sector contracts — construction and infrastructure, housing, healthcare, education, and government. Most of them are supplier businesses who know their trade inside out and have never had the time, or the in-house bid-writing capacity, to give their tenders the attention a dedicated bid team would.

Our aim is to become the intelligence layer for UK procurement in these sectors — the thing that tells a supplier not just how to write a bid, but what actually wins with a specific buyer, in a specific sector, based on real outcomes rather than guesswork. Fewer SMEs guessing at what an evaluator wants. More of them winning the work they're already capable of delivering.

Founders

Samaksh Singh

Founder, CEO & CTO

Samaksh built Consultit.ai's product himself while studying Computer Science at the University of West London. He leads product, engineering, and the bid-writing process the company runs on.

Tisha Bakshi

Co-founder & COO

Tisha co-founded Consultit.ai and leads operations and client delivery, working directly with SME clients through the bid process from intake to submission. She's studying Business at Coventry University London.