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Our story

We watched good companies lose on paperwork.

Public contracts should go to the best offer, not to whoever can afford a full-time tender team. Gunly exists to level that playing field.

Every week, skilled contractors, IT firms and care providers skip tenders they could win. Not because their work isn't good enough, but because a single bid takes dozens of hours of reading, cross-checking and writing — time a growing company simply doesn't have.

Lotte saw it from the inside as a tender manager: brilliant teams losing points on missing KPIs, or being disqualified over one overlooked requirement in an annex. Daan saw that modern AI could finally read and reason over documents of that size.

So in 2026 they started Gunly: an AI bid assistant that does the heavy reading and drafting, while people keep doing what they do best — making the decisions and building the relationships.

OUR MISSION

Make every capable company a serious contender for public work.

The team

The people building Gunly.

LV

Lotte Verbeek

Co-founder · CEO

Former tender manager who has written and reviewed bids for construction and facility services. Leads product and customers.

DH

Daan Hoekstra

Co-founder · CTO

AI engineer focused on document understanding and language models. Leads engineering and the AI platform.

What we value

How we work.

Customers build it with us

Every feature starts as a conversation with someone who writes bids for a living.

Trust over hype

We show sources, admit limits and keep people in control of every decision.

Small team, high standards

We would rather ship one thing that works perfectly than five that almost do.

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