Argus — Belgian public-procurement recon for Claude and other AI assistants

What Argus does
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Argus watches the Belgian Federal eProcurement (BelGov) platform and turns any
public tender into a recon dossier: the contracting authority's award history,
similar past contracts, and an anonymised peer benchmark. It then serves that
dossier to Claude — or any MCP-compatible assistant — over the Model Context
Protocol, so your AI can read tender intelligence directly while you work.
v1 does no predictive scoring: historical and aggregated facts only.

What an AI assistant can call
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Argus exposes a Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoint at https://argus.ing/mcp.
Two tools are available once a user has connected their Argus account:

- create_recon_report — given a tender (a fuzzy title or an Argus tender id),
  returns a recon report: contracting-authority history, similar past work,
  and a k-anonymised peer benchmark.
- upload_award_brief — upload an award brief / bestek (PDF) for a tender;
  Argus stores it and enriches the tender's dossier from it.

How a user connects their assistant
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1. Register at https://argus.ing/auth/register, verify the email, and log in.
2. Add Argus as an MCP server in the assistant, endpoint https://argus.ing/mcp.
3. Authorise it. Argus uses OAuth 2.0 with PKCE: the assistant opens the
   consent screen, the user approves, and it receives a scoped access token.
4. The assistant can now call the tools above on the user's behalf. Every
   call is scoped to that user's own workspace — cross-workspace access is
   structurally impossible.

Current market snapshot
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Argus is currently tracking billions of euros in open tender value across Belgian
public contracts.

Getting started without an account
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Not ready to register? Leave an email on https://argus.ing/ to join the alpha and be
notified when matching tenders open.

More info
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Homepage: https://argus.ing/
MCP endpoint: https://argus.ing/mcp
Contact: hello@argus.be