How a solo founder runs a five-continent tender platform on AlloyDB and MCP

Editor’s note: Lucius AI, a tender-intelligence startup covering markets across five continents, runs its entire data platform on AlloyDB for PostgreSQL with a single operator. By migrating semantic search to a ScaNN index and managing database operations through Model Context Protocol (MCP), query latency dropped by 47x while automating day-to-day administrative tasks via MCP. Executive summary Lucius AI runs a global tender platform spanning more than 210,000 tenders across the UK, EU, India, and Australia, requiring minimal operational overhead for a solo founder.