--- title: "How AK RFP Hub works — follow one bid from posting to verdict" description: "Follow a real Kodiak RFQ through the pipeline: posted on a borough site, read into ten estimator facts, then judged — along with every other open Alaska opportunity — against your shop." canonical: https://akrfp.com/about --- how it works · follow one bid # Nothing gets past it. And it shows its work. Last week, a hazmat-testing RFQ went up on the Kodiak Island Borough website on a Tuesday afternoon. Here’s what happened to it — and what happens to every opportunity posted anywhere in Alaska. scroll ↓ 01 posted ## Somewhere you weren’t looking Alaska’s agencies post work in thirty-plus different places — federal databases, state portals, borough sites, school districts, utilities, tribal orgs. Nobody can watch them all. We do, around the clock. SAM.gov Grants.gov AK-OPN DOT&PF RFPs DOT&PF Construction AIDEA / AEA AK Housing (AHFC) AK Railroad Chugach Electric Matanuska Electric Golden Valley Electric AK Power co-ops Housing authorities Anchorage Kodiak Island Borough Mat-Su Borough Kenai Peninsula Soldotna CivicPlus cities AK Drupal cities BidNet Alaska ADN bid notices Anchorage SD Mat-Su SD Fairbanks SD Juneau SD North Slope SD Sitka SD Ketchikan SD Lower Kuskokwim SD University of Alaska Southcentral Foundation Tanana Chiefs Kawerak Yakutat Tlingit Tribe Cordova Tue 4:12 PM · kodiakak.us · “East Elementary Roof — Hazardous Material Testing RFQ” Thirty-plus channels, checked around the clock. Every source is a publicly posted government solicitation, bid, or grant notice — always verify details with the issuing agency before bidding. 02 read ## Read like an estimator would A 42-page packet becomes the facts you’d check first — scope, owner, deadline, site, bonding, the gotchas. Done once, for everyone. RFQ packet · 42 pages → one structured record · built once, shared by everyone Scope Hazmat testing & reporting — school roof replacement Owner Kodiak Island Borough Deadline quotes due · watch the addenda Site East Elementary, Kodiak — pinned on the map Work type asbestos / lead survey ahead of re-roof Documents RFQ + drawings, parsed — tables kept as tables Digital PDFs are read in-house; scanned plats go to a layout-aware parser, and site maps are captioned by vision AI. Nobody ever re-reads the packet — the record is computed once and shared across every client. 03 you ## Your shop, described once The other half of every judgment is you: what you do, the words a bid clerk would use for it, what you can bid as, and how far you’ll travel. yourcompany.com Give us your website — or a couple of sentences — and onboarding drafts your profile: the work you do, the terms a bid clerk would use for it, what you can bid as, and how far you’ll travel. Every piece is editable, at signup and any time after. your matching profile Phase I / II ESAs Hazmat surveys UST removal Site remediation Spill response watch for: asbestos contaminated soil monitoring wells travels: all of Alaska · adjustable 04 judged ## Then we judge all of it. Every single one. A search engine hands you a shortlist — and everything it didn’t retrieve is invisible. You can never ask “what did it miss?” So we don’t search. We fill in the whole grid. your shop × 0 open opportunities · every cell judged Likely fit Potential fit Maybe fit Unlikely fit Not a fit — outside your filters the cell with our RFQ in it ↓ Kodiak Island Borough · posted Tue 4:12 PM · judged 4:19 PM East Elementary Roof — Hazardous Material Testing RFQ Potential fit LIKELY FIT Nome — Former FAA Station Remedial Action MAYBE FIT Eagle River WWTF Sludge Hauling UNLIKELY FIT JBER Pest Management Services Not a search. Not a shortlist. A verdict for every open opportunity in Alaska — new postings judged within minutes, and if a single pair is ever missed, the system trips its own alarm. 05 your morning ## Everything, accounted for Your feed opens with a number you can check — and every opportunity behind it is somewhere on the page. All 466 open Alaska opportunities evaluated against your profile · updated 14m ago Likely fits 2 Potential fits 8 Maybe fits 36 Unlikely fits 320 Not a fit — outside your filters 96 The likely fits open your morning. The unlikely pile stays on the page. And what your own travel or size filters exclude stays visible — a setting you can change, never a blind spot. Same verdicts drive search, filters, and the map. under the hood, for the curious unpdf + LlamaParse parsing Claude structured extraction Claude vision on plats Nominatim geocoding Postgres full-text evidence excerpts Jev decision model pre-screen judged by Claude · every pair self-checking coverage invariant how the judge gets its evidence ## The evidence layer A fit that only shows up on page 19 of the attachments is still a fit. So for every opportunity, we search the parsed documents for the words that are distinctive to your profile — the rare ones, not “contractor” or “Alaska” — and cut short passages around each hit. Those passages go to the judge with the title and summary, and the rule is strict: a bucket above unlikely needs something the text actually says. Insurance clauses, cited regulations and safety boilerplate don’t count, even when they contain your words. The judge reads every opportunity regardless, so a weak signal can’t hide a good fit. The excerpts make the judgment sharp; the judge makes the coverage complete. document excerpts · 3 of 61 chunks - …disciplines required of the design team: civil, structural, and a HAZMAT consultant for the pre-renovation survey… - …remove and dispose of asbestos -containing floor tile and mastic in rooms 104–112 per 18 AAC 50… - …Contractor shall maintain pollution liability insurance of… ignored · boilerplate → names your discipline as a required consultant: at least “adjacent” Made in Alaska Built by someone who's worked the sites. AK RFP Hub is built by Kai Myers, an environmental scientist in Anchorage who ran remote contaminated-site investigations for an Alaska remediation contractor before building software for the field. K.AI Consulting builds applied-AI tools that put serious automation in reach for Alaska businesses, no enterprise contract required. [kaiconsulting.ai ↗](https://kaiconsulting.ai) ## See your own grid filled in Create an account and every open Alaska opportunity is judged against your shop — the fits up top, everything else listed underneath, every morning. [Get started](https://akrfp.com/signup) $0 today · 14-day free trial · cancel anytime --- This is the text of https://akrfp.com/about. AK RFP Hub, Anchorage, Alaska. kai@akrfp.com