The Cato platform monitors Italian public-tender portals in real time, filters opportunities against a company's profile, and analyzes tender documents automatically. Bid preparation covers auto-filled administrative, technical and financial envelopes, per-tender checklists, and consistency checks designed to prevent formal exclusions before submission.
An AI agent performs requirement analysis, market and competitor research, penalty-clause interpretation, and drafting of technical and financial documents. In June 2026 coverage the company reported more than 250,000 tenders filtered, 4,500 analyzed, 1,500 documents generated, and more than one hundred client companies.
Italian public procurement was worth roughly 309 billion euros in 2025, up 13.9 percent year over year according to the Italian anticorruption authority ANAC. Estimates of total Italian public spending run near 500 billion euros, with sources differing on its share of GDP.
Around 60 percent of Italian small and mid-sized enterprises report difficulty with tender processes, while the national statistics institute Istat puts SME adoption of AI tools at 15.7 percent, leaving substantial room for automated bidding tools in the sector.
Customer results reported in June 2026 coverage include roughly 80 percent less time spent searching for tenders, 70 percent less administrative work, and 60 to 65 percent less time on technical bid preparation. Following the Avvista.ai integration the platform's tender sources are re-queried every four hours.
The June 2026 Avvista.ai integration also added a dataset of more than 5.7 million historical award records to the platform's analysis. Development processes are ISO/IEC 27001-certified and customer data remains within the European Union, a differentiator cited by security-conscious bid teams that replaced general-purpose AI tools with the platform.
Cato does not publish pricing. Access is demo-gated: prospective customers book a demo through the website and receive a response within 24 hours, with an expert walkthrough tailored to a tender in their industry.
Reporting on the company describes business-to-business software subscription contracts, with the first customer contracts signed in January 2026. No self-serve signup or public plan tiers are offered.
