BUILT FOR THE 1.4% WHO BREAK IN

Every pursuit is one living thread.

From the first SAM.gov signal to capture, proposal, award, and delivery — one thread that never resets. Meridian is the AI chief of staff for the smallest teams in federal contracting.

VA Cybersecurity A&A / ATO Support
RFQ 36C10B26Q0844 · VA TAC · SDVOSB set-aside · $4.9M
PROPOSAL DUE JUL 29 · 4 DAYS
TODAY · SATURDAY JUL 25
Meridian NEEDS YOU 6:40 AM
Amendment 002 posted Friday — I re-shredded it overnight. Two changes, both live in your matrix now Amd 002 · p.2. The §M.4 staffing draft is still waiting on you — it is the last red section.
Technical volume shall not exceed 25 pages
+Technical volume shall not exceed 30 pages
+§L.3.2(e): quantified risk register, likelihood × impact
Approve §M.4 draft See the amendment diff
Bo Whitaker 8:12 AM
Risk register drafted against the new §L.3.2(e) — likelihood × impact on all 11 risks, built off our T4NG sub work PP · T4NG sub 2024–26. In your queue behind §M.4.
EARLIER · MONDAY JUL 20
Pink team passed MILESTONE MON
All 11 sections reviewed. Price locked at $4.62M — under the $5.0M Vets First ceiling and roughly 6% below the incumbent run-rate FPDS.

Same thread since the first signal on Feb 3. Nothing re-keyed, nothing lost.

Threads mode — the flagship pursuit, four days out. Demo data.
Reads the sources that matter
SAM.gov FPDS GSA eBuy SBIR.gov Agency forecasts

Public procurement data sources. Meridian reads them — they are not customers, partners, or endorsers of this product.

The problem

Govcon runs on fourteen tabs.

Every pursuit gets shredded across a dozen tools, and every tool forgets. The lesson that cost you the last bid is sitting in an inbox nobody will open again.

Today

One pursuit, scattered in five places

The opportunityan opportunity tool
The compliance shreda spreadsheet
The pricing modela different spreadsheet
The debrief lessonssomeone’s inbox

…and ten more tabs nobody closes.

When the amendment drops on a Friday, four of those five are already wrong. When the recompete lands eighteen months later, the person who learned the lesson has moved on and the lesson went with them.

With Meridian

Meridian keeps one thread

  1. SIGNAL
  2. QUALIFY
  3. CAPTURE
  4. PROPOSAL
  5. SUBMIT
  6. AWARD
  7. DELIVER

Seven stages. One thread. No handoff, no re-keying, no reset.

Signal, qualification call, capture notes, the shred, pricing, pink team, submission, award, delivery — all of it stays on the same thread. So when the recompete surfaces on the radar, the debrief that explains why you lost last time is already sitting three scrolls up, in context, with the citation attached.

What it actually does

Six things that decide small bids.

Not a CRM with a chatbot bolted on. These are the specific places where a seven-person shop loses to an eighty-person incumbent.

Amendments, re-shredded overnight

An amendment posts Friday evening. By the time you open your laptop, Meridian has diffed every change, updated the compliance matrix, and assigned the new requirements to owners. You read two lines instead of thirty pages.

The §M.4 loop

The section that killed your last two bids gets flagged before submission — not in the debrief. Then it gets drafted from your own past performance: the surge you actually ran, the staff you actually kept, cited line by line.

Honest P-win

35% means 35%. Every probability is trending, explained, and cited — which factor moved it, which evaluation criterion drove the change, which competitor signal came in. No vanity scores that make a bad bid feel survivable.

Radar sees recompetes 6–18 months out

Contract expirations in FPDS plus published agency forecasts, mapped onto a timeline before the RFP exists. Capture starts when you can still shape it, not the week the solicitation drops.

Past performance without CPARS

Under the $350K simplified acquisition threshold there is no CPARS record — which is exactly where small firms live. Meridian runs a PPQ engine instead: tracks the questionnaires, chases the references, keeps the proof current.

Compliance as a gate, not theater

CMMC Level 2 self-assessment status, your SPRS score, the C3PAO countdown — tracked on the thread and checked against eligibility before you spend three weeks writing. Posture stated exactly as it is, never dressed up.

The fine print is the product

Built on the real rules.

Federal contracting is won inside thresholds, ceilings and clauses. Meridian is built on the actual numbers — not a generic sales pipeline with agency names pasted in.

$350K
SAT

The simplified acquisition threshold. Below it, FAR Part 13 applies and there is no CPARS record — so your proof has to come from somewhere else.

$5.0M
Vets First ceiling

The VA sole-source ceiling for verified SDVOSBs under VAAR 819.7008. Price above it and the whole acquisition strategy changes.

$75K
AFWERX Phase I

What an Open Topic Phase I actually pays — not the generic SBIR guideline cap. Budget against the real number or the feasibility plan is fiction.

FAR 8.4
Schedule orders

How GSA schedule task orders — including HACS SIN cyber work — are actually competed. Different rules, different clock, different quote.

52.219-14
Similarly situated

Similarly-situated subcontractor hours count toward the prime’s 50% self-performance. That one clause is why a prime wants you on the team.

Who this is for

For the founders everyone else ignores.

Capture software is priced and designed for companies with a business development department. This one is designed for companies where the founder is the business development department.

01

Single parents building at the kitchen table

The proposal gets written after bedtime, in the ninety minutes that are actually yours. Meridian holds the thread while you are gone and hands back the one decision that genuinely needs a human.

02

Young entrepreneurs with no BD department

No capture manager, no proposal shop, no retained consultant on a monthly draw. The shred, the matrix, the pricing memory and the compliance clock all run without a headcount behind them.

03

Veteran founders turning service into set-asides

SDVOSB status is a door, not a win. VetCert currency, SPRS score, the CMMC assessment countdown — tracked on the thread instead of carried around in your head until something lapses.

1.4%
of federal contract dollars went to first-time primes in FY23
Third Way analysis of FY23 federal contracting data.
~3%
reported win rate for new bidders in their first pursuits
Commonly reported industry figure — treat it as directional, not audited.
22%
win rate for a year-three shop running the full loop
UVMG Federal, the demo composite: 2 of 9 decided, trailing twelve months.

Watch a 7-person shop swing at $4.9M.

UVMG Federal: $1.6M in trailing revenue, $8.4M of pipeline, and four days to the flagship. Open the thread and see exactly where the weekend stands.