Why PursuitAI exists

Built for how small business pursuit actually happens

Federal contracting tools generally assume the user is bidding as the prime. The capture plan is for your win. The compliance matrix is your responsibility. The proposal is yours to write.

That assumption breaks immediately for small businesses. Roughly 95% of small business federal pursuit happens as a sub on a prime's team. You're not winning the contract — you're winning your sub-scope on someone else's contract. The capture plan should reflect the team's win themes. The compliance matrix should scope to your sub-responsibility. The proposal sections you write are limited to what you actually own.

PursuitAI is the only platform we know of where every AI feature shifts automatically when you commit to a teaming partner. Capture plans become sub-mode capture plans. Compliance matrices add responsibility columns showing what's yours vs. the prime's vs. shared. Proposal outlines scope to the sections you'll write, not the full proposal. This is what small business pursuit actually looks like, and the platform reflects it.

The 8(a)/SDB edge: compliance built in.

Set-aside work comes with rules the horizontal platforms ignore. The biggest is the Limitations on Subcontracting — FAR 52.219-14, the "50% rule": on most set-aside awards you must self-perform at least half the work, and only similarly-situated subs count toward your share. Get it wrong and you risk a finding, a protest, or a termination.

PursuitAI's Subcontracting Check models your prime/sub split — counting similarly-situated entities correctly — and returns a compliant / at-risk / over-limit verdict before you sign. We don't know of another platform that does set-aside compliance, because it doesn't generalize beyond small business. That's exactly why we built it.

And we don't drop you at award. My Contracts tracks the post-award lifecycle — modifications, CDRL deliverables, CPARS — then promotes completed work straight into your past performance, so your next proposal is grounded in the contract you just delivered. The whole pursuit, start to finish.

Transparent pricing. No sales gate.

Most platforms in federal contracting hide pricing entirely. You have to book a sales call before they'll show you what their tiers cost. Sometimes pricing varies per customer based on perceived ability to pay.

We publish every tier upfront. Start a free trial and use the product before any conversation about money. If you want a demo to walk you through it, we offer those too — but they're an option, not a gate.

Independent. Founder-owned. Not owned by primes.

Some platforms in this space are owned by, partnered with, or financially connected to large primes. This isn't always disclosed, but the implications are real: your search behavior, your tracked opportunities, your competitive analysis could theoretically inform a competitor's BD strategy.

PursuitAI is owned and operated by Reliable Cloud Services LLC, an 8(a) certified small business in Maryland. The platform was built by people who live in this workflow daily. The business model doesn't depend on extracting data from one set of users to advantage another. Your pursuit data stays yours.

Mobile native. Work from anywhere.

Native iOS and iPad apps with the same AI features as the web version. Not a stripped-down companion. The full product on your phone and tablet.

Federal BD pros don't sit at desks all day. You're at a networking event when an opportunity comes up. You're at a conference when a prime asks for a capability statement. You're on a flight reviewing solicitations. You're between meetings deciding whether to pursue. The tool you carry with you matters more than the tool that lives in a browser tab.

We don't know of another GovCon platform with native mobile apps offering the full feature set.

Honest scoring methodology

When a fit score is "87 out of 100," you should know how it was computed. PursuitAI's scores break down into five auditable dimensions: NAICS alignment, set-aside eligibility, agency experience, technical fit, and competitive position. Each dimension has a weighted contribution. You can see exactly why your score is what it is, and you can disagree with the weights if your judgment differs.

We don't generate "Probability of Win" percentages. The math doesn't support that precision in federal small business pursuit — you'd need decades of bid history to validate any specific percentage. Most platforms that show "PWin %" are showing AI-generated estimates dressed up as statistics. We use Fit Scores and qualitative win-probability bands (High / Medium / Low) instead. Less impressive on a sales slide — more honest when it's your bid on the line.

Built to still be here in five years.

A pattern in AI startups: launch with aggressive pricing to capture market share, run on venture capital while burning money per customer, then either raise prices dramatically once they have lock-in or shut down when the funding runs out.

PursuitAI's pricing reflects sustainable unit economics from day one. We're built to be here in five years. Your data stays with a platform that isn't optimizing for the next funding round.

What we don't do

We focus exclusively on federal contracting. We don't cover state and local procurement, federal grants, or international tenders. There are good tools for those — we're not trying to be one. We do federal small business pursuit deeply, not government markets broadly.

We don't promise win rates. Federal pursuit success depends on too many factors outside any tool's control — relationships, timing, agency priorities, evaluator subjectivity. We promise to make the work faster, more compliant, and better-organized. We don't promise to win contracts for you.

We don't generate generic government writing. Every AI feature drafts from your past performance, your capability data, and your team's voice — not from boilerplate scraped from the public web.