Built by someone who lived the problem.

I spent years delivering federal contracts — managing programs for agencies including USCIS, and working across the DC metro corridor where federal contracting is the lifeblood of hundreds of small businesses trying to compete against firms ten times their size.

What I saw repeatedly was this: companies losing not because they couldn't do the work, but because they were chasing the wrong opportunities. They'd spend $60,000 writing a proposal for a contract the incumbent was never going to lose, or bid on a set-aside their certifications didn't qualify them for, or price below cost because they didn't know what market rates looked like.

The tools that existed were built for large primes — $30,000 a year minimum, requiring a dedicated administrator, with interfaces that looked like they were designed in 2008. The small and mid-size firms that make up the backbone of the federal contracting ecosystem were running their entire capture operation on spreadsheets and SAM.gov bookmarks.

I built CaptureVantage to change that. The eligibility gates came first — because the most expensive mistake in this business is writing a proposal for something you were never legally allowed to win. The scoring came second — because not all eligible opportunities are worth pursuing. The incumbent intelligence came third — because positioning starts 18 months before the RFP drops, not the day it posts.

Every feature in CaptureVantage exists because I either lived the pain myself or heard it from a BD director who was tired of guessing.