Stotles

Stotles is a web-based platform for finding sales opportunities and handling tender work. Its listed capabilities include opportunity discovery, tender document management, and a reusable content library. The Free plan includes three AI bid/no-bid reports. Sales Studio Basic is listed at £75 per month and includes information about upcoming expiring contracts and live chat support. Sales Studio Growth is listed at £475 per month and adds buyer and competitor or partner intelligence, framework and document data, and decision-maker contacts. Bid Studio Growth is listed at £990 per month, with 15 AI bid/no-bid reports each month and five bid projects a month. Sales Studio Expert has no listed price and includes a market analysis suite, multi-team configuration, and integration support. Bid Studio Expert also has no listed price; its listed features include unlimited AI bid qualification, uncapped response generation, and tools for large-scale bid processes. The platform is made by Stotles, founded in 2017.

Stotles combines opportunity discovery with tender and bid tools across several plans. Compare the listed plan features and confirm pricing for the Expert options before selecting one.

Stotles suits teams looking for sales opportunities and tools for tender work. The Sales Studio and Bid Studio plans address different listed needs, from buyer intelligence to bid qualification and response generation.

Stotles is a public-sector sales and bid platform for teams that need to find procurement opportunities and prepare responses. It suits go-to-market and bid teams working across tenders; its strongest case is the combination of early buying signals, tender tracking and bid tools, while the right plan depends on whether sales research or bid production is the priority.

Overview

Founded in 2017, Stotles connects opportunity discovery with tender document management and a reusable content library. Its market data spans tenders, contract awards, government buyers, buyer contacts, invoices and buyer documents. Stotles says it draws procurement data from more than 100 portals and refreshes it every two hours, giving sales teams a broader base for pipeline research than tender notices alone.

That breadth is useful when a team wants to spot public-sector demand before a formal procurement begins, then follow the tender and prepare a bid. It is less compelling for a supplier that needs only a narrow bid-writing workspace or only a tender feed.

Key features

Finding and qualifying opportunities

Stotles AI scans budgets, board minutes, strategy papers and policy announcements for signs of buying intent before a tender is published. For teams building pipeline early, those signals can support planning ahead of the formal bid window. Once tenders appear, a combined feed draws from hundreds of portals, with AI relevance scoring and email notifications to help teams focus on likely-fit opportunities.

For bid qualification, AI reads tender packs, scores viability and flags risks, citing requirements back to their source. That makes it more useful for screening a live opportunity than a simple alert feed, though teams still need to decide whether a bid is commercially worthwhile.

Preparing bids and connecting workflows

AI can draft responses using a customer's content library, market data and internet sources. A reusable library gives teams a basis for repeated answers, while the bid-project and report allowances in Growth plans put a ceiling on some workflows. Expert removes stated generation and qualification caps, which matters most to high-volume bid teams.

Integrations include Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, SharePoint, Google Drive, Microsoft Teams and the Stotles API; an MCP integration is in beta. MCP users need their own paid Stotles account and connect with their existing Stotles login. Stotles states that it is SOC 2 Type II certified, supports single sign-on and MFA, and is GDPR compliant.

Pricing

Stotles uses a freemium model, with sales-focused and bid-focused plan families. The free options let teams begin without a subscription, but their narrower scope and limits make them a starting point rather than a substitute for the paid workflows.

The free plans cap bid/no-bid reports at three and divide sales tracking from bid alerts and support. The paid Sales Studio tiers climb from expiring-contract information to buyer intelligence and market analysis, while Bid Studio Growth sets explicit monthly report and project limits. Expert is the route beyond those stated caps, but custom pricing means teams should establish its cost before choosing it. Live chat is included on Basic, core customer success on Growth, and advanced support, advisory and enablement on Expert.

Platforms

Stotles is available on web and through an API. Its stated deployment is web, so teams seeking a native desktop or mobile app should not assume one is part of the offering.

Who it's for

Stotles is best suited to public-sector go-to-market, sales and bid teams that want procurement intelligence and bid preparation in a connected workflow. Sales Studio Growth is the stronger fit for buyer research and decision-maker discovery; Bid Studio Growth is more appropriate for regular bid work with predictable monthly volume. Teams with only occasional bids may get sufficient value from the free Bid Studio allowance, while a sales team needing little beyond opportunity alerts may not need the richer research tiers.

Pros and cons

• Pros: Early signals drawn from budgets, board minutes, strategy papers and policy announcements can help teams investigate demand before formal tenders.
• Pros: Tender tracking, AI qualification and response drafting join discovery with bid preparation, reducing the need to treat those as wholly separate workflows.
• Pros: The stated portal coverage, two-hour updates and broad buyer data give sales teams several angles for researching public-sector opportunities.
• Cons: Bid Studio Growth costs £990 a month and limits use to 15 reports and five projects monthly, which may be difficult to justify for occasional bidding.
• Cons: Sales Studio Growth costs £475 a month, a substantial step above Basic for teams that need buyer intelligence and decision-maker contacts.
• Cons: Expert pricing is custom, making the cost of removing bid caps or adding advanced sales configuration less predictable.

Alternatives

Teams comparing bid tools can browse Bid Management Software. Choose BidNet Direct when a free web option focused on member-agency opportunities, bid browsing and real-time bid matches is the priority; its Basic plan is free. Smart Tenders is worth considering for a supplier testing a repeatable tender workflow: its Starter plan is £49 a month and includes one saved sector filter and one active tender pack.

Raspond is another option to compare. Projectory AI, Klarum, Orbit, Bid Responder and Sweetspot are also alternatives.

Verdict

Stotles is a strong fit for public-sector sales and bid teams that need to connect early opportunity signals with tender tracking and response work. Its combination of market data, qualification and reusable bid content is the main reason to choose it; the main reason to look elsewhere is cost, particularly for teams that would need the £990 a month Bid Studio Growth tier or custom-priced Expert features to handle their workload.