How to run a demo of The Connect
A field guide for presenting the platform live — the overview to give everyone, all 23 modules, and two step-by-step click paths: Corporate (bidder) and Government / MDB (buyer). Present the overview to all, then run only the track that matches the prospect.
“The Join”
Every competitor gives you one silo — just tenders, or just bond data, or just country risk. The Connect links them. On a single screen a tender carries its funder, its country risk, its integrity score, and whether you'll actually get paid.
“Other platforms tell you a tender exists. The Connect tells you whether you'll win it and whether you'll get paid — on one screen. That link is the product.”
Match the plan to the prospect
Solo analysts, consultants, independent bidders
Firms bidding, teaming & financing across borders
Ministries, procurement authorities, development banks
The 23 modules
You won't click all 23 — pick the 5–6 that matter to the prospect. This is what each one is.
RFPs, EOIs, tenders & awards from 60+ official sources, with AI bid matching to your firm profile.
An explainable 0–100 integrity score per notice — short windows, value outliers, single-bidder & repeat-winner flags.
Real contract winners and values with buyer→supplier concentration — see who keeps winning from whom.
Live 10-year yields, 5-year CDS, ratings and issuances across 195 sovereign markets.
Policy rates, reserve adequacy, liquidity events and governor statements for 195 central banks.
Fiscal & debt positions, project-finance pipelines and MDB co-financing — the money behind every tender.
Factbook-grade profiles for 195 countries with a nine-dimension sovereign risk composite and payment-risk score.
Twelve FA divisions: missions, ministries, treaties, and real-time OFAC/EU/UN sanctions screening.
Command Center, bid pipeline and project workspaces — opportunity to award to delivery in one place.
Find partners, lenders and JV teammates by sector, geography and track record against live tenders.
Set criteria once; the agent monitors every new tender, scores fit and queues the best for your approval. (Corporate)
Draft a full response, screen eligibility & documents, polish to the evaluation criteria — with your own AI key.
For buyers: AI scores every received bid on technical, financial & eligibility criteria. (Government / MDB)
Pricing Intel, Competitor Radar and Recompete Radar — from real award data.
Promised vs. paid vs. timeline — flags overdue and stalled projects where capital isn't flowing.
Search in plain English; semantic matching surfaces 40–60% more relevant opportunities than keywords.
Member profiles, groups, official institution pages, and a white-label data API.
Publish WB / IADB-aligned tenders from compliant templates — criteria, thresholds & anti-corruption clauses built in.
Bidders respond in required forms; AI produces a ranked, auditable scoresheet defensible against protest.
Screen bidders & beneficial owners vs OFAC, UN, UK OFSI and World Bank cross-debarment, with an audit trail.
Flags missing mandatory forms before submission and captures the real people behind each bidding firm.
Buyer-native workspace: My Notices, bids received, portfolio disbursement, single-bidder & integrity flags.
Discover & verify suppliers worldwide — a 5-level verification ladder, trust scores, contact details, trade activity, ownership and beneficial owners, with live discovery across official registries (GLEIF, OpenCorporates, openFDA). Corporate.
Corporate (bidder)
For contractors, engineering/energy/infrastructure firms, consultancies and suppliers bidding on international tenders.
Find the right tender → know if it's clean & winnable → draft the bid → track competitors and get paid.
- 1Start on the public siteOpen connect.thecefa.org, land on “The Join” and the stat band, deliver the one-liner, then Login into /app.
- 2The dashboardKPI row (Active Tenders, Pipeline, Closing 7d), the Bid Agent matched-tenders strip, and your personalized Watchlist.
- 3Find an opportunity (01, 16)Open Notices, use Ask-AI search: “road and highway tenders in East Africa under $300M.” Open one result.
- 4Assess it on one screen (02, 07, 04, 14)PIRS integrity, country & payment risk, win probability & est. bidders, and the pricing band from historical award ratios.
- 5Draft the bid (12)AI Bid Studio: eligibility & document screening, then drafting to the evaluation criteria with your own AI key.
- 6Work the market (14, 03)Win Intelligence: Competitor Radar & Recompete Radar. Award Intelligence: buyer→supplier concentration.
- 7Team, pipeline & partners (09, 10)Shared team workspace and bid pipeline; Co-financing & JV Matching for teaming on large tenders.
- 8Find & verify suppliers (23)Open Suppliers: search by sector/country/verification, open a profile (trust score, verification ladder, contact details), verify live against GLEIF, and discover new suppliers across official registries. From a project, use “Find a supplier.”
- 9CloseRecap the arc; Corporate = $2,295/yr, 2 seats, 7-day free trial, more seats at signup.
Government / MDB (buyer)
For ministries, procurement authorities, development banks and donor agencies that publish tenders and evaluate bids.
Publish a compliant tender → receive structured bids → evaluate defensibly → screen sanctions → watch delivery.
- 1Start on the public siteOverview + “The Join,” then Login with the Government/MDB account. Note the buyer-shaped nav (My Notices, not an opportunity feed).
- 2Government Command Center (22)Portfolio disbursement, active notices, bids received, single-bidder risk, and integrity flags on your own tenders.
- 3Publish a compliant tender (18)Pick a WB / IADB template; the form pre-fills weighted criteria, qualification thresholds, eligibility, beneficial ownership and the F&C clause. “Start compliant, not blank.”
- 4Receive structured bids (19, 21)Bidders respond in the required forms. The Compliance Matrix flags missing mandatory forms; beneficial ownership is captured per firm.
- 5Evaluate defensibly (13, 19)AI Bid Evaluation scores each submission; the ranked, auditable scoresheet reasons per published criterion — defensible against protest.
- 6Screen for sanctions (20)Bidders & beneficial owners vs OFAC, the UN Security Council list, UK OFSI and World Bank cross-debarment, with a timestamped audit trail.
- 7Watch delivery (15, 22)Delivery Truth: promised vs paid vs timeline, stalled projects flagged. Back to the Command Center for portfolio oversight.
- 8Official page & extras (08, 17)The official institution page and, where relevant, OSINT & political-risk monitoring.
- 9CloseRecap; Government/MDB = $595 per seat / year, 60-day free trial, per-seat (add/remove any time).
Objection answers
60+ authoritative official & licensed sources — World Bank, AfDB, ADB, EBRD, IDB, AIIB, UNGM, EU TED, IMF, BIS, ECB, OFAC and national portals. Every record is source-attributed and confidence-scored.
Tenders, yields, policy rates and ministry signals refresh continuously; sovereign macro syncs daily from the World Bank, IMF and ECB.
The Join. We link capital flows, procurement, and sovereign & payment risk into one record — win-odds and get-paid on a single screen.
Single-tenant auth, one active session per account, role-based access. AI is bring-your-own-key — the key lives only in your browser and is never stored on CEFA servers.
Create an account and add a card to start. Trials run 7 days (Individual, Corporate) or 60 days (Government/MDB); billed annually only after the trial ends. Cancel any time.
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