Why a tender was matched or unmatched
Every evaluated tender in Tender Navigator carries the AI's reasoning next to its verdict. The reasoning refers to the filter's prompt as it was at evaluation time, which is stored with the result, so the answer to why a tender was matched or unmatched is always on the result itself.
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Open the reasoning
- Open Results in the dashboard.
- Click the tender. The Tender Info panel opens.
- Under Evaluation completed, read the verdict and the reasoning. The reasoning is the model's own explanation of how the tender compares with the criteria in your filter's prompt.
The same reasoning is in the digest email for that tender and on a shared tender page.
Check what it was judged against
Further down the panel, Filter info shows the filter as it was when the tender was evaluated: keywords, countries, codes, deadline offset, budget rule and the LLM model. Editing a filter later never rewrites this snapshot, so a verdict from three weeks ago is explained by the prompt of three weeks ago.
Common reasons for a verdict you did not expect
- The prompt said less than you meant. "IT services" matches a lot; the model can only apply the criteria you wrote. Add the concrete signals and exclusions the reasoning missed.
- The prompt said more than you meant. A requirement phrased as a hard rule ("only tenders above EUR 1 million") is applied as one. Soften it, or say how to treat uncertainty.
- The notice is thin. Some portals publish a title and two lines. The model works from the text Tender Navigator ingested; it does not open attachments. See Why some tender fields are missing.
- The keywords selected the wrong tenders. A keyword such as "cloud" also appears in weather and printing notices. Unmatched is the correct verdict there; tighten the keywords or codes so the filter reads fewer irrelevant notices and spends fewer evaluations on them.
- Two filters disagree. Each filter has its own prompt, so the same tender can be Matched by one and Unmatched by another.
Change future verdicts
Edit the filter's AI prompt and save. The change applies from the next daily run. Existing results are never re-evaluated. See Writing the AI prompt for how to sharpen it, and Too many irrelevant tenders for the most common fixes.
Ask the assistant
The dashboard AI assistant can help you read a reasoning and rewrite the sentence in the prompt that produced it.
Related articles
- Understanding Matched and Unmatched resultsHow to read the Results page in Tender Navigator: the Matched and Unmatched verdicts, the reasoning, the filters and date range, the seven-day default window, and the actions on a result.
- Writing the AI prompt for a filterHow to write the business criteria that Tender Navigator's AI evaluation judges every tender against: what to include, what to leave out, worked structure, and how to sharpen a prompt when verdicts look wrong.
- The Tender Info panel on the Results pageThe Tender Info panel Tender Navigator opens for an evaluated tender: the verdict and reasoning, days left, tender details, the Open original tender link, the archived filter snapshot, translated keywords, sharing and saving to a list.
- Too many irrelevant tendersHow to reduce irrelevant results in Tender Navigator: tighten keywords and codes so the filter reads fewer notices, sharpen the AI prompt so the verdicts are stricter, use budget and deadline rules, and read the Unmatched reasoning.