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Built from procurement professionals' own needs

Deep procurement expertise combined with effective tooling makes tenders better.

Story

As long-standing public procurement professionals, we know what procurement needs and how much work goes on behind every tender. Preparing the invitation to tender and its requirements, the award criteria, the reviews, the decision and the contracts – and a great deal of repetitive technical work from one procurement to the next. A great deal of everything other than the expert work we ought to be doing first and foremost.

We were not satisfied with what the current tools make possible. Too much of the time went on routine instead of the real expert work that benefits the client.

We kept asking why this work could not be done more intelligently. The answer was clear to us – it could be, and it should be.

So we combined our procurement expertise with IT and AI expertise and set out to build the tool we had long wanted for ourselves.

That is how BIDI came about.

BIDI is a complete solution for the entire lifecycle of a tender. It brings the procurement process, the expertise and AI tools together into a single whole. It supports building a tender stage by stage, actively helps with drafting and reviewing it, and keeps the whole process manageable in one place, from preparation to contract.

Technology will significantly change the way procurement is done in the future. What it will not replace is the expertise and tacit knowledge built up over many years – a tool that genuinely works can only come from deep subject-matter expertise.

BIDI gives the professional better tools to apply their expertise where it matters.

We are building BIDI around a single goal: less time on routine, more time on the substance.

Better use of time. Better procurement. Greater impact.

Team

A team of procurement professionals

Behind BIDI is a group of procurement, legal and technology professionals united by one idea: competitive tendering can be done more intelligently and with greater impact.

Get to know the people behind BIDI and their stories. Do get in touch!

Jussi Ailisto

Chair of the Board, sales

I have over 15 years of experience in management consulting and in numerous projects supporting public contracting entities: making procurement more efficient, developing leadership and renewing operating models.

My goal is to bring strategic thinking and efficiency across the whole procurement lifecycle. Procurement is not just an administrative obligation, but a genuine way to create value and support an organisation's core work.

I joined BIDI because tendering still consumes an unreasonable amount of specialist time without the outcome matching the investment — and the market offers no proper solutions for managing procurement.

I serve as Chair of the Board, supporting the team especially on strategy, commercialisation, and financial and funding planning.

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Katariina Männistö

Chief Executive Officer, product development

I am among the most experienced public procurement professionals in Finland, both in practice and in law. Across hundreds of competitive tenders, the same development needs kept recurring from project to project.

My goal is for procurement to support an organisation's core work and free up resources elsewhere — to be more effective, more cost-efficient and genuinely value-creating.

We built BIDI to solve the inefficiency of the tendering process. Through it, years of my experience — particularly in large supply and equipment procurements — are available to everyone.

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Iina Kajander

Legal, product development

I am among the most experienced public procurement specialists in Finland, with over ten years in procurement and procurement law. I know from practice where procurement works and where it becomes needlessly difficult.

My expertise centres on demanding procurements and on data law. It is not only about complying with regulation, but about actually using data to produce a better outcome. A well-run procurement supports operations and saves time; a poorly run one drains resources for nothing.

I joined in founding BIDI because consulting is changing and I do not want merely to adapt to it. Expert work has to become more practical, faster and easier to put to use — and tendering has to take less time and energy.

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Tony Träskelin

Technology

I have over 20 years of experience in technology leadership across fintech, digital post and other regulated services: building R&D teams, modernising architectures and taking demanding services to market.

GDPR, accessibility and information security are design work to me, not a form to be filled in afterwards. In public procurement, regulation is likewise a starting point, not an obstacle.

My goal at BIDI is to make technology the part a user never has to think about: secure and scalable from its foundations, and easy enough that no one has to learn new routines.

I joined because tendering swallows specialist time on work a machine does better — time that is needed where human judgement decides the outcome.

Jan Borgelin

Technology

I have over 30 years of experience in IT: software development, product design and leading technology organisations, in agile startups and large corporations alike. In recent years my focus has been on applying AI and building AI-native products.

My goal at BIDI is to bring the real potential of AI into renewing public procurement — at the core of the solution, not as a superficial add-on. The technology has to be durable and scalable, and it has to genuinely change how the work is done.

I joined because few teams combine this depth of domain understanding with a genuine appetite for renewal. Add modern AI technology to that, and the situation becomes truly interesting.

Mikko Aaltonen

Advisor

I have over 20 years of experience in IT, from product development and product design to leading R&D organisations, in agile startups and large corporations in both Finland and the United States.

My goal as BIDI's technical advisor is to support the team in making technology a genuinely effective tool: technically durable and scalable, but above all user-led and built to last.

I joined because the team's expertise in the field of public procurement is unmatched. It is rare for deep domain understanding, strong business skills and a genuine desire to renew to meet this strongly.

I support the team especially on technology choices, on the direction of product development, and on building the engineering organisation through the stages of growth.

Careers

Build a career where procurement meets AI

We are always interested in people who want to make public procurement more effective.

Compliance first

Every feature is built to meet the Act on Public Procurement and the EU directives.

A team of procurement professionals

Much of the team comes from procurement itself. The product is built from our own real needs.

AI in a supporting role

We build AI that assists and accelerates. A human always makes the decision.

Let us look at how BIDI works for your procurement.

Book a 30 minute demo. Tell us in advance what you want to focus on and we will build the demo around it.

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Or write to us directly: myynti@bidi.fi