Explore

Explore is the front door of the workspace. It exists because most mornings a bid team does not arrive with a query — it arrives with a question like what happened yesterday that I should care about. The page answers that in a few blocks, and none of them ask you to know a search term first.

What you and your team opened

Three blocks at the top, built from the records people in your organisation open. Each is simply absent until there is something to show.

• Recently viewed — the last six records you opened, newest first. Only yours.
• Because your team follows … — the agencies and categories your team opened most in the last 90 days (once the team has opened at least three records), and under each the newest open approaches to market — or contracts, for an agency your team mostly reads contracts from — that nobody on the team has opened yet. The line under each says why, as a count: "Your team opened 7 Department of Defence records in the last 90 days".
• Your team is reading — records two or more people on the team opened in the last 30 days, each with "Opened by 3 people on your team". It only appears in an organisation of three or more: in a team of two, "opened by one person" would name your colleague.

Totals only. Nobody — including the owner and admins — can see what one person opened, and no page or API route says who. Your organisation's counts are never shared with any other organisation, and they never change the "Across the record" lists below, which are the same for every customer. A record page counts as opened when you open it; a link that is merely in view (a prefetch) does not count, nor does anything done with an API key.

You control your own part on the Account page: turn off Remember what I open (which also deletes everything you had opened), or Clear my history for this organisation. If you leave or are removed from an organisation, your opens stay in its totals without your name, and your Recently viewed goes with you. A record is forgotten 12 months after anyone last opened it.

Recommended for you

Your own saved searches, re-run. Each one shows the four newest records it matches today — the same rows its daily or weekly email would carry, with the date window taken off. "See all" opens the list page the search was saved from, with its filters back in the URL, so the page you land on is the page you saved.

Nothing is inferred here: this block knows only what you chose to save, not what you opened. Save a search from any list page or from Search, and it appears here on your next visit.

Two kinds of saved search cannot be re-run here, and the page names both under the block rather than showing you an empty row:

• Agency and supplier lists have no record date. Both are totals across every year loaded, so "the newest four" has no meaning that would not be invented.
• Some pages hold no rows yet. Panel refreshes have a page and no data behind it. A saved search on one of those waits, and starts working the day the rows land — there is nothing to re-save. State and territory tenders, forward plans and awards all hold rows now, and a saved search over them re-runs normally.
• Grant opportunities have no date to cut on. The list is ordered by closing date rather than by publication, and an ongoing round has no closing date at all, so "what is new since last time" has no honest answer here. A saved search that happens to match grant opportunities re-runs normally — search orders by the record's own date.

Across the record

Seven compact lists, one per record family: approaches to market, contract notices, planned procurements, panel awards, grant awards, the largest buyers and the largest suppliers. Each is titled by what it actually is, because each is exactly that — the first page of that family's own list, in that list's own default order.

Nothing here is ranked by what anyone looked at. These lists are shared across every customer, and what one organisation opens stays inside that organisation, so the five notice families are ordered by date, newest first, and the two participant families by contracted value. The line under the block says so.

The lists are read once and shared: they are the same rows for every reader and their sources refresh nightly, so the page does not pay for seven queries on every visit. If one of them cannot be read, that block says which rows are missing and the other six still render.

Start from here

Six standing views for when nothing is saved and nothing in particular is moving: what is closing soonest, what was awarded recently, who buys the most, which panels are taking new members, your UNSPSC categories, and the contracts expiring inside your bid window.

Related

• Search runs a keyword query with phrases, required and excluded terms, grouping, prefixes and fuzzy matching, and filters by agency, jurisdiction, open or closed status, value and date. It looks at the last two years first and falls back to the whole record when those do not fill the page. Semantic search over embeddings is deferred, not built.
• Saved searches is where the cadence lives: off, daily or weekly. The same saved search feeds the email and this page's first block.