Company Profile
Build your company profile to power capability matching and tender relevance scoring
Company Profile
Your company profile is the reference Cothon uses when it matches your business against government tenders. It powers two things: capability matching during bid analysis (each extracted requirement is compared against your documented capabilities) and tender relevance scoring (which opportunities are ranked highest for you).
Note
A more complete profile produces more accurate requirement matches and a more relevant tender feed. You can start analyzing bids with a minimal profile and expand it over time.
The Five Profile Tabs
The profile page is organized into five tabs:
1. Basic Info
Core business identifiers and company details:
- Legal and operating names, Business Number (BN), GST/HST number, Procurement Business Number (PBN), supplier code
- NAICS codes, city, province/territory, postal code
- Annual revenue and fiscal year end
- Procurement Industries — a UNSPSC category picker that drives tender matching
- Diversity Certifications checkboxes and Business Size
2. Capabilities
A structured capability picker organized by industry (IT, construction, staffing, goods supply, and more) plus an auto-generated capability narrative you can edit. The industries shown are filtered by the UNSPSC categories you selected in Basic Info.
3. Certifications
Free-form certification entries: name, issuing organization, issue date, and expiry date — ISO standards, security clearances, professional accreditations, and similar credentials.
4. Past Projects
Your contract history: client, project name, contract value, dates, description, key outcomes, and reference contact details.
5. Content
Reusable proposal content: company overview, value proposition, key differentiators, sustainability statement, and Indigenous participation plan.
Profile Strength
A completeness meter at the top of the page tracks how filled-in your profile is, with a per-section breakdown and status dots on each tab. Filling in identifiers in Basic Info, writing a capability narrative, and adding at least one certification and past project all increase the score.
Tip
The capability narrative and past projects carry the most weight in matching quality. If you only have 20 minutes, fill those in first.
How the Profile Is Used
- Bid analysis — when Cothon extracts requirements from an RFP, each one is assessed against your capabilities, certifications, and past projects to produce Fully Meets / Partially Meets / Cannot Meet verdicts.
- Tender relevance — your UNSPSC selections and capability profile influence which open tenders are surfaced and how they are ranked.
- Proposal content — the Content tab and past projects feed AI-generated proposal sections.
Getting Started
- Complete Basic Info, including your Procurement Industries (UNSPSC) selections.
- Pick your capabilities and review the generated narrative in Capabilities.
- Add current Certifications and check the diversity boxes that apply.
- Add representative contracts under Past Projects.
- Analyze a tender and review the capability matches to see your profile in action.
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