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Comparison · 2026

SEQUESTO vs Brainial: Brainial Reads the Tender. SEQUESTO Runs the Whole Bid.

Brainial alerts you to new public tenders, reads the documents for deadlines, requirements and risks, and creates a first draft from earlier proposals. SEQUESTO does the whole bid: James, our AI bid agent, reads the tender pack and sets out the key dates, assigns the work, writes the full response, tailors the CVs, builds the presentation, fills the buyer's forms and gathers every certificate into one zip, ready to upload. One workspace, set up around your process in days.

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Honest Positioning

Where Each Platform Shines

Brainial is a good fit if you…

01Bid mostly on Dutch and Belgian public tenders, in construction, infrastructure or engineering
02Want tender alerts from TED, TenderNed and Mercell and a quick read of each tender's risks
03Want to track clarification rounds and learn from the buyer's scores on past bids

SEQUESTO is a better fit if you…

01Want one tool for the whole bid: the tender summary and key dates, the tasks, the full response, the CVs, the presentation, the buyer's forms and every attachment, in one zip
02Want dashboards on your own pipeline, deadlines and win rate, built without code
03Want your company to set the bid process, and each person to work it in their own way, seeing only what they need
04Answer tenders in Dutch, French, German or any of 30+ languages, written directly in the buyer's language
05Want the aOS set up around your process, and to start on a live bid within days

Common Frustrations

Where Brainial Runs Out of Room

Based on Brainial's own published material, checked November 2026. These are the situations where, in our view, an analysis-first tool asks the most of a bid team.

Brainial Creates a First Draft. Finishing the Bid Is Still Yours.

Brainial reads the tender and creates a first draft from earlier proposals. A bid is scored on more than a draft: the plan of approach and the method statement written to the buyer's criteria, the CVs rewritten for this buyer, the buyer's own forms filled in, the presentation, and this year's certificates found, renamed and zipped before the deadline. In SEQUESTO, James does each of those steps, in the same workspace as the analysis.

The Report Your Management Asks For

Brainial's reporting centres on Evaluation Insights: the scores and feedback a buyer gave on bids you have submitted. Management usually asks a broader question: how many bids are in the pipeline, which deadlines are at risk, and what the win rate is by number and by value. In SEQUESTO you build those dashboards yourself, without code, from the same workspace the bids are run in, and decide who sees each one.

A Bid Team Is Not One Kind of User

A bid brings together one bid manager and a dozen experts who open the tool twice a month, each working their own way, next to price sheets and CVs not everyone may see. In SEQUESTO the company sets the stages, fields and workflows itself, without code, and decides who sees what: each team or person gets view or edit access to a project, a folder, a single document or even a single question. James works inside the same permissions and adapts to each person: their role, their language, and only the work assigned to them.

Feature Comparison · Checked November 2026

Where SEQUESTO Goes Further Than Brainial

01Run the Bid

From the Tender Pack to the Submission, in One Workspace

SEQUESTO
Brainial
Summarise the tender pack, track its deadlines and clarification rounds
Build your own dashboards: pipeline, deadlines and win rate, by number of bids and by € value
Not included
Experts write, comment and sign off on the finished document, without leaving the tool
Not included
Set up your own stages, fields and workflows yourself, without code
Not included
02Build the Response

Every Document the Buyer Asks For, Not Only a First Draft

SEQUESTO
Brainial
Write the full response as a finished document: technical response, method statement, executive summary and cover letter
Not included
Tailor CVs and references to the buyer's criteria
Not included
Build the bid presentation in PowerPoint
Not included
Fill the buyer's Word, Excel and PDF files and hand them back in their own format
Not included
Gather the certificates and attachments, named and grouped the buyer's way, in one zip
Not included
03Set-Up & Governed AI

Ready the Next Day, Traceable to the Source

SEQUESTO
Brainial
Ready for a live bid the day after set-up, not after weeks of implementation
Not included
ISO 27001 certified, with data hosted in the EU
Brainial

Where Brainial Wins

Brainial is built for complex public tenders, with its roots in construction and infrastructure. It sends alerts from TED, TenderNed, Mercell and other platforms, picks out the deadlines, requirements and risks in the tender documents, and keeps track of clarification rounds, comparing each new round with the one before. Its Evaluation Insights records the buyer's scores and feedback per award criterion, so the next bid can learn from them. Every answer cites its source, it is ISO 27001 certified and it hosts data in the EU. If your team mostly bids on Dutch and Belgian public tenders, it takes a lot of the reading off your hands. But reading the tender is one step of a bid. SEQUESTO runs all of them.

Migration

Switching From Brainial: How It Works

01

Bring Your Past Bids and Documents

Gather the past bids, policies, CVs, certificates and slide decks you work from, in the formats you already have. There is nothing to restructure first: SEQUESTO works from any file, with no question-and-answer pairs to build.

02

Drop It Into the Knowledge Hub

Upload Excel, Word, PDF, images or slide decks, in any language, or connect SharePoint and Google Drive. Everything is converted and indexed automatically: no preprocessing, no tagging, no mapping answers to questions.

03

We Tailor It to You

Our team does this step for you. In a one-hour session you walk us through how you work, and we set the aOS up around it: your process, your tone of voice, your personas, the properties you track and your dashboards. Nothing to build on your side. Included on every plan.

04

Start a Full Bid the Next Day

Documents uploaded, one hour with us, and the aOS can be ready the next day, set up properly around your process. Then start on a live tender, from the tender pack and the go/no-go decision to the submission package, with every access, change and approval logged from the first submission.

See How SEQUESTO Runs Your Bid Operation

Book a demo and see your next tender run end to end in SEQUESTO: from the tender pack and the go/no-go decision to the submission package, in one workspace.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Brainial reads the tender; SEQUESTO runs the whole bid. Brainial alerts you to new public tenders, picks out the deadlines, requirements and risks, tracks clarification rounds and creates a first draft from earlier proposals. In SEQUESTO, reading the tender is where James, our AI bid agent, starts. He also assigns the work and follows up on what is missing, writes the full response, the executive summary and the cover letter, tailors CVs and references, builds the presentation, fills the buyer's Word, Excel, PDF and PowerPoint files, and gathers the certificates and attachments into one zip, named the buyer's way. The company builds its own dashboards and sets the stages, fields and workflows itself, without code.

Yes. The company sets the process: stages, fields, document types and workflows, configured without code or copied from ready-made set-ups for public tenders, RFPs, security questionnaires and DDQs. It also decides who sees what: each team or person gets view or edit access to a project, a folder, a single document or a single question, a Knowledge Hub document or a dashboard, and James works inside the same permissions. Within that process, James works in the role the company defined for each person, remembers how they like to work and writes in their language. An expert who opens the bid twice a month sees their assigned questions and nothing else.

Yes. James drafts from your past bids, policies, CVs and certificates and shows, for every answer, the sources it used and how it was built, step by step. Every file created, moved, shared or deleted, every comment and every access change is on record with the person who did it and when, and every approval is logged. Before a bid is marked complete, James checks every requirement against the finished document and grades it as compliant, partial, missing or needing clarification. Brainial also cites the source of every answer.

Both are built for public tenders, and Brainial focuses on the Netherlands and Belgium. SEQUESTO writes the documents a tender is scored on, plans of approach, method statements and mandatory forms, directly in the tender's language, in 30+ languages on every plan, from content in any language, so a Dutch tender can be answered from an English or French library. It runs public tenders, ITTs and PQQs in the same workspace as RFPs, DDQs and security questionnaires.

In the EU or the US, as the customer chooses when the account is created, on every plan; the choice cannot be changed later. The AI runs in the same region, with full tenant isolation. Customer data is never used to train AI models. SEQUESTO is ISO 27001 certified and SOC 2 Type II audited.

Switching can go fast. Upload your past bids, policies, CVs and certificates as they are, with no question-and-answer pairs to build. Walk us through your process in a one-hour session, and our team configures the aOS around your process, tone of voice, personas, properties and dashboards. It can be ready the next day, so you start on a full bid straight away. Onboarding is included on every plan.

The tools most often weighed against Brainial fall into two groups. Tender-analysis tools such as Altura read the tender pack and help qualify it; library tools such as Loopio and Responsive answer questions from approved content. SEQUESTO runs the whole bid, from the tender pack and the go/no-go decision to the submission package, in one workspace that adapts to each team and each person, with every AI answer traceable to its source.