We only know what's on your CrewFinder profile. If you're seeing too few matches, too many off-target ones, or the right region but the wrong kind of work, the fix is almost always one of three things: locations, services, or sector.
This goes for every part of the feed — news matches, regulator permits, capex announcements — but it matters most for the Tenders tab. SAM.gov and CanadaBuys ship hundreds of new federal opportunities every day; we only surface the ones tagged with industry codes that map to your services and posted in regions you serve. A US contractor with 6 services and 3 states might see 30 tenders a week in My tenders. The same contractor with 1 service listed sees 2.
Save tenders to train the matcher
There's a fourth lever, on top of locations / services / sectors: tap Save on any tender in the All tenders sub-tab. We use your saves to extend the industry-code → service mapping so contractors with profiles like yours get those tenders matched automatically next time. Save liberally — there's no downside. See The Tenders tab.
Quick check first
Open crewfinder.info/company/your-company in a private browser window (so you see what a visitor sees). If your locations and services don't look like a fair description of what your company actually does — that's the picture we're working from too.
1. Add every place you really dispatch from
Your locations matter most. Each one is a pin we use to find nearby work. A single head-office pin will miss work happening 300 km away from a yard you actually staff.
- Add yards and branch offices, not just the head office. If you have a shop in Grande Prairie that crews mobilize from, add it. Two locations beat one even if they're in the same province.
- Use full street addresses where you can. They put your pin in a more accurate spot than just a city name. If it's a rural yard with no street address, the city and province still work.
- Don't pad the list with fake offices. Padding makes you look less trustworthy to operators browsing your profile — and it teaches us to show you work you're not actually placed to win.
Full walkthrough at Managing your locations and service areas.
2. List the services you actually offer
We read your services list to decide whether a story is the kind of work you do. Two common mistakes to avoid:
- Empty or very short list. A profile with one or two services listed will only match a very narrow band of work. We can't guess that a welder also does fabrication unless you tick both.
- Ticking everything. A profile with 40 services ticked — including ones you don't really do — pulls in too much. We take you at your word: tick the boxes that match what you actually bid on.
Aim for the real list — maybe five to fifteen services that describe the work you actually do. Re-check it every six months as your business shifts.
Full walkthrough at Managing your services and equipment.
3. Tick the right sectors
Your sector tags help us decide which kinds of stories matter most to you. An "oil & gas" company sees more permits and well licences; an "industrial construction" company sees more tender postings; a "utility" company sees more transmission and substation projects.
If you work across more than one sector, tick every one you actually serve. There's no penalty for ticking several — it just gives us a wider view of what kinds of stories might apply to you.
Full walkthrough at Sectors and regions.
When you still aren't seeing matches
A few realistic cases where the feed will look quiet even on a well-built profile:
- Very specialised work. If you only do one narrow kind of job, fewer stories will fit. That's accurate, not broken — we're doing what we're supposed to.
- Quiet season. Tender-board postings drop off from Christmas through mid-January every year. The feed picks back up by late January.
- Missing sources. If the places your sector announces work first aren't in our list yet, we'll miss things. Email hello@crewfinder.info with the publications or boards you wish we watched — we add them when we hear about gaps.
Profile changes take effect right away
When you edit your locations or services, we immediately re-rank existing signals against your updated profile — no waiting for the next cron cycle. New signals coming in from our sources still arrive on the source's schedule (every six hours for news, daily for SAM.gov, CanadaBuys, and the AER well-licence feed).
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