Frequently Asked Questions

It's a research surface for federal capture work, built on the public federal contracting record. You can pull up any contractor's federal profile, any buying office's purchasing behavior, or any individual contract award — and then compare companies, size a market, or run a requirement-by-requirement gap check on a pursuit. Everything it shows is backward-looking: what has been awarded, to whom, by whom. It does not predict awards, score your win probability, or tell you who to call.

Four things, in this order, will tell you fastest whether this is useful to you. (1) Look up a contract you lost — see who holds it now and how it's been modified. (2) Pull up the buying office behind your biggest upcoming recompete. (3) Look up your own company and tell us what's wrong with it. (4) Run a Gap Analysis with your team against a real pursuit. If any of those comes back thin or wrong, that's exactly what we want to hear about via the Feedback button.

Click Companies in the top nav. The search box opens on the Company tab — type a name, UEI, or CAGE into the "Enter company name, UEI, or CAGE..." field and pick the match. That opens the full profile: identity and registration, federal award revenue, capability evidence, customer base, vehicles held, contracts, leadership, and news. If you don’t know the name yet, switch to the Capability tab and describe the work in plain English ("systems engineering support for fighter aircraft sustainment") — results come back ranked by how well each company’s federal evidence matches. A third tab, Customer, finds companies by the agency or office they already sell to. If Companies isn’t in your nav, your plan doesn’t include it — see "What does my beta access include?" below.

Click Customers in the top nav, then search the box labeled "Search office name, code, or alias (e.g. FEDSIM, NAVAIR)…". Common nicknames work, not just formal office codes. Clicking a result opens that office’s profile — its vendor roster, contract-type and set-aside mix, how competitively it awards, and its currently active contracts with the government point of contact where the award record carries one.

Click Contracts in the top nav and search by keyword, or click through from any contract listed on a company or office profile. The contract profile shows the awarding and funding office, who's performing it, the full modification history, competition posture, subawards, the extracted requirement profile, and the vehicle it was awarded under. Two buttons at the top of that page — Compare against incumbent and Find teaming partners — carry the contract straight into the comparison and gap tools with everything pre-filled.

Because we only show what the federal record can prove, and the federal record is narrower than your actual business. Capability evidence is built from award language on prime contracts and from subcontracts your primes chose to report — so work you performed as a sub under a non-reporting prime, classified or intelligence-community work, and all of your commercial business are invisible to us. A thin capability panel is a statement about federal reporting coverage, not a judgment about your company. If it's thin and you know why, tell us via Feedback — that's genuinely useful to us.

No, and we’re deliberate about never claiming it is. The federal data window doesn’t reach back to a company’s founding, so the oldest award we can see is the oldest award in the period we can see — not the first one ever won. A company registered in SAM in 2011 whose earliest visible award is 2019 may have been priming for years before that, or subbing the whole time. You’ll see us phrase this as "earliest award in the period analyzed," never "first award," and our AI-written sections are explicitly barred from making a first-award or market-entry claim.

Federal subaward reporting is incomplete government-wide — it depends on each prime contractor filing its subawards, and many don’t, or file partially. This is not a gap specific to us; it’s a gap in the source. Practically, it means a company that has quietly subbed under the same prime for years can show close to nothing in our capability evidence and revenue figures. Read a low sub number as "not visible in federal reporting," never as "didn’t happen."

Click the Feedback button in the top-right of any page. Nothing is pre-selected, so pick Bug first, then describe what looked wrong — the company name or contract number plus the figure is enough — and click Submit Feedback. You don't need to say where you were; the page, your account, and session details are attached automatically. You'll get a ticket number on the confirmation screen, but it closes itself after a couple of seconds — note the number down if you want to reference it later. During beta this is the fastest path to us and the one we're actively watching; a wrong number with a specific ID attached is the single most valuable thing you can send.

Usually not. A profile can honestly show no visible federal award activity when the company’s work sits entirely outside what public federal reporting captures — sub work not reported by the prime, classified or IC programs, or purely commercial business. Rather than fabricate a trend or leave the panel blank, the profile carries a fixed "visibility note" saying exactly that. If you believe the company genuinely has prime awards we’re not showing, that’s a real bug and we want the report — use Feedback and include the company name.

It's a fixed, human-written disclosure that appears when a company's federally visible evidence is thin. It says the profile reflects federally reported activity only, that the company's actual scope of work may be substantially larger than what's shown, and that this reflects a limitation of federal reporting rather than an assessment of the company. It is never AI-written and never varies company to company — it's the same sentence every time, on purpose.

Four public federal sources do the heavy lifting: SAM.gov (entity registration, NAICS codes, size standards, socioeconomic certifications), USASpending.gov (contract awards, subawards, obligated amounts, agency relationships), GSA eLibrary (vehicle awardee lists, schedule positions, SIN and pool awards), and the public federal award records that carry contracting-officer contact details. Some leadership and business-development context comes from licensed commercial data, and it's labeled where it appears. You'll find this list, in full, behind the About this report link at the bottom of any profile.

No, and we won't describe it that way. The federal award data is a periodic snapshot, refreshed on roughly a monthly cycle — so an award or modification filed last week generally won't be visible until the next refresh, and a contract's obligated total can lag the official USASpending figure by one cycle. The specific vintage of the load you're using is stated in your beta welcome letter. The product doesn't yet show an as-of date on every page; if the exact currency of a figure matters for a decision, ask us via Feedback and we'll tell you precisely.

An asterisk marks a section that is our analysis rather than a sourced fact — company narratives, capability classification, and growth trajectory are the main ones. Those are written with AI assistance (Claude, by Anthropic) working only over the federal data already on file, using our own methodology. Sourced figures — contract values, dates, agency names, NAICS and SIN awards — carry no asterisk because they come straight from the federal systems above. The two layers are deliberately kept visually distinct so you always know which one you’re reading.

Treat them as an analytical starting point, not a conclusion. They're interpretations, they're probabilistic, and they can be wrong — which is why they're badged rather than blended into the factual data. The guardrails are real: narratives are barred from stating dollar amounts, contract counts, growth percentages, and first-award claims, and every one is generated only from evidence already on the company's profile. Still, before you put a claim from an AI-written section into a proposal, a teaming decision, or a bid/no-bid, verify the underlying fact against the source. That's the standard in our Terms of Service, Section 6, and it's the honest standard regardless.

Because we’d have to make it up. Every number here is award history — it describes what has been bought, not what will be. We took this seriously enough to build and then delete a feature that would have used dollar volume to assert whether a company is "small," because obligated dollars aren’t a reliable proxy for SBA-countable receipts and size status is the most protest-litigated status in federal contracting. So we show self-certifications, contracting-officer determinations, and the applicable standards side by side, and we stop. Same rule everywhere on the platform: show the evidence, never conclude — the judgment is yours.

Open the company's profile and click the star button captioned WATCH in the identity header next to the company name — it fills gold when the company is on your list. You can also star companies directly from search-result rows without opening each profile. Click it again to remove. Everything you star lands on your Watchlist.

Click the gold Watchlist chip in the top-right of the nav bar. It lists every company you've starred with its location, average federal revenue, when you added it, and how many notes you've written on it — searchable by company name, UEI, or city. Clicking a company name opens its full profile in a new tab so you don't lose your place in the list.

On the company’s profile, click the NOTES button in the identity header next to the star. A "Capture Notes" drawer slides in. Type your note in the "Add a capture note…" box (markdown formatting works), optionally pick a relationship tag from the dropdown — Competitor, Teaming Partner, Incumbent, or Customer-Adjacent — and click Add Note. If you opened the company from a specific vehicle’s report, the note is auto-tagged with that vehicle; remove the tag if the note is evergreen company intel instead.

Click the gold Notes chip in the top-right nav. That's your notes hub — every note across every company, searchable by company name or note text and filterable. Set whatever filters you want, then click Export CSV or Export DOCX; both export the currently filtered view, and the count in the button tells you exactly how many notes you're about to export.

Gap Analysis can assist your initial teaming decisions — and it works just as well pointed the other way: load a competitor's known team and see what the federal record says about them. Our goal is a fact-based vantage point into any team's federally documented capabilities. It measures demonstrated capability evidence against a specific contract or buying office, requirement by requirement. Coverage is a dollar ratio, not a score. It shows what the federal record supports and stops there: no fit scores, no recommendations. You decide who to call.

In the top nav, open Intelligence Tools and pick Gap Analysis. In the first row, add 1–5 companies to "My Team" (start with your own in the first slot — the boxes are labelled "My Team 1," "My Team 2," and so on). Then, under TARGET FRAME, pick Contract Pursuit and search for the contract or program you’re chasing, or Customer Pursuit and search for the buying office. Click Find Gaps →. You’ll get a requirement-by-requirement coverage matrix, plus a ranked Teaming Options list of companies that could fill what your team doesn’t cover. Faster route: from any contract profile, click Find teaming partners and the target is pre-filled for you.

They're a dollar ratio against the requirement's own recorded value: under 50% is a gap (red), 50–99% is partial (yellow), 100% or more is covered (green). Two things they do not mean. First, a red row doesn't mean your team can't do the work — it means the visible federal record doesn't show that work as a prime, under a code the extraction caught, inside the visible window. Second, the Incumbent column is that company's whole portfolio-wide, family-rolled federal record, not what they've delivered on this specific contract — read a big incumbent number as "how real a company this is," not "how hard they'll fight for this award." Sanity-check any hard gap against what you actually know before you act on it.

Open Intelligence Tools in the top nav and pick Compare. Use the Companies tab to pick 2–5 companies yourself. Or use Vs. Field: pick one anchor company, then click Show Peers → to pull in the companies ranked near it on the Leaderboard. The Vs. Contract tab is launched from a contract profile’s Compare against incumbent button rather than picked here — it pre-fills the incumbent and the contract’s own requirements. There’s also a NAICS tab if you want to frame the comparison around a market code. Compare shows evidence side by side — capability, rank, vehicles, customer overlap — with no fit score and no verdict, by design.

Yes. Notes and watchlist entries are scoped to your account and visible only to you — nobody else on your team, and nobody at Intelligent Win, sees them in the product. Their content is never used to train any model and is never included in any AI-generation prompt; the AI analysis on the platform runs only on our own federal-derived data. They're yours to export at any time. One caution that's on us to say plainly: don't paste CUI, ITAR-controlled, or proposal-sensitive text into a note — the Terms already prohibit it, and it's an easy reflex to slip into.

Your beta account is comped — no credit card, nothing to cancel, and nothing converts to a paid plan on its own. Feature access is set on your account when we create it, so what you can reach depends on what we provisioned; if a menu item like Intelligence Tools or Watchlist isn't in your nav, that's the reason, and we can turn it on. When beta wraps, we'll have a pricing conversation with you directly — there's no automatic anything.

Use it through the app, as a person. That means: no scripts, bots, scrapers, or crawlers against the platform; no bulk export of our derived data; no reselling or redistributing outputs outside your organization; and no building outreach or marketing lists out of the contact information you find here. The government contact names and emails on the platform come from public federal award records and are there for competitive research and legitimate, contract-specific contact — not campaigns. The binding version of all of this is in our Terms of Service, Sections 5.4 and 7.

No — logins are per person. Sharing credentials or running concurrent sessions beyond your authorized-user count is prohibited under the Terms of Service, Section 7. If you want colleagues on the platform during beta, tell us and we’ll create accounts for them; that’s a better outcome for you anyway, since watchlists and notes are private per account and a shared login means shared everything.

Click Account in the top-right of the nav bar. That page shows your current plan, whether you're in a trial window, and which features and vehicles your account can reach. Plan changes are handled by us directly during beta — there's no self-service upgrade or payment flow yet.