Why PursuitAI exists
Most federal contracting software assumes you're bidding as the prime. Small businesses usually aren't — so we built PursuitAI for the way the work actually happens.
The federal small business contracting market has roughly a dozen tools competing for the same buyers. Most fall into two camps: market-intelligence platforms that help you find opportunities, or capture and proposal tools that help you respond to them. Almost none are built for how small business pursuit actually works — and none cover the whole thing end to end.
We built PursuitAI to be the platform we wished existed when our own 8(a) firm started competing for federal work.
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.
Everything inside PursuitAI
One platform for the entire pursuit — from the first agency forecast to the CPARS after you deliver. Not a point tool you bolt onto five others.
- SAM.gov + DHS APFS + 20 more agency forecasts + GSA eBuy
- Grants — Grants.gov assistance, for-profit-eligible flagged
- AI fit scoring across 5 auditable dimensions
- Recompete Radar — expiring contracts 6–36 months out
- Industry days & pre-solicitation intel
- Contract Awards tracker — who just won, where you fit
- Sub-Award Intelligence — primes who sub to small business
- Regulatory Radar — Federal Register FAR/DFARS rule changes
- Bid-protest intelligence — GAO + Court of Federal Claims
- Price-to-Win anchored to real incumbent obligations
- Smart Teaming & partner match
- Pursuit Copilot — one audited run drives the whole pursuit
- Solicitation analysis + RFI / RFP / RFQ extractors
- AI compliance matrix
- AI proposal drafting from your real past performance
- Pricing & Basis of Estimate — rate card → priced BOE
- Capability statement generator
- Bid / No-Bid recommendations
- Subcontracting Check — FAR 52.219-14 (the 50% rule)
- Mentor-Protégé JV compliance reminders (MPA · SBA review)
- My Contracts — modifications · CDRL deliverables · CPARS
- Promote completed work into past performance
- Pipeline with value + sub/prime work-share
- Executive analytics — coverage vs goal, weighted forecast, win/loss cohorts
- Win / Loss learning loop
- Team workspaces with @pursuitai inline AI
- Global search across the whole corpus
- Native iOS, iPad & Android apps
Intelligence the horizontal platforms don't have
The newest signals in PursuitAI exist because we build for one buyer — the small-business federal contractor. Each shipped in the last few releases, and none of them generalize to the broad market the other tools chase.
One verdict at the top of every opportunity
The Decide panel composes the signals you already have — your fit and its strongest and weakest dimensions, who actually wins at this sub-agency and where you rank, competitive intensity, agency affinity, the response clock, and set-aside eligibility — into a single go/no-go verdict pinned to the top of every opportunity. It reads your existing data, so it never runs a new AI call or spends a credit. Before you've generated the AI Bid/No-Bid it shows a deterministic lean and points you to it; the AI call, once run, is the authoritative direction and the other signals only temper it. Decide in seconds instead of digging through tabs.
An agent that runs the whole pursuit
Pursuit Copilot orchestrates every step over a tracked opportunity — fit → eligibility → bid/no-bid → compliance matrix → draft → color-team review → pricing → handoff — as one audited run. The deterministic sequence is the guardrail; Claude advises, but never decides. Hard human gates are never auto-crossed, there's a per-run budget, and it never auto-submits.
See the rule change before it hits the street
Regulatory Radar reads the Federal Register every night for acquisition rules across all of 48 CFR — FAR, DFARS, agency supplements — and surfaces the proposed and final changes that move your market, filtered to the agencies you sell to. Grants adds a second discovery stream from Grants.gov, flagging the assistance work a for-profit small business can actually win.
Two protest venues, and the clocks that end deals
Bid-protest intelligence now spans GAO and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims — Claude extracts agency, solicitation, and outcome from each decision, and one venue toggle switches between them. And for 8(a) mentor-protégé teams, JV compliance reminders track the MPA-expiring, SBA-annual-review, and unapproved-agreement clocks with red/amber banners plus a nightly push and email, so a missed date never ends a joint venture. It's a reminder, not legal advice.
Ask your pipeline from inside Claude
Connect PursuitAI to Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and any Model Context Protocol client. Mint a read-only access token and ask in plain language — which DoD opportunities scored above 80 this week, what's in your pipeline, which agencies you win with most. The token is scoped to your organization and read-only by design: it can browse your opportunities, pipeline, global search, and agency-affinity intelligence, but it can never change anything or spend AI credits, and you can revoke it in one click. Pro and up.
Team with firms that have actually won — not just names on a vehicle list.
Every other tool shows you who holds a GWAC. PursuitAI joins that roster to real federal award records, so each teaming partner shows how they win: their award-type mix — new contracts vs. task orders on vehicles you could hold too — the agencies and NAICS they've actually won in, and how competitive those wins were.
So you can filter the partner search down to exactly the firms that have won at your target agency, in your NAICS — then click any signal to jump straight to the backing awards: which agencies, what amounts, which contracts.
It's one live signal across three surfaces — the prime context in Sub-Award Intel, the filters and track record in the teaming search, and the "how they win" profile in the partner drawer. The difference between who holds the vehicle and who actually wins, where, and how.
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, iPad, and Android 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.
And "agency experience" means the real thing: your incumbency at the specific sub-agency buying the work — USCIS, not DHS writ large — plus how far behind that component is on its small-business goaling pace, and your own team's win/loss record. Contract-office reality, not a parent-agency average.
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.