Your business consulting team.On retainer.
Six practices, one senior team: Business Development, Capture Management, Proposal Management, Sales Management, Program Management, and Project Management. Most small businesses cannot carry that bench full time, so the work happens at night, by whoever is free, against a portal deadline. We are that team - for a fixed monthly cost, with priority turnaround.
Senior support, at a cost you can plan around.
A full-time capture manager, proposal manager, BD lead, and sales manager cost more than most small businesses can carry. A retainer buys the same bench for a fixed monthly number. Select any tier to see what it includes.
- ◆Capture or proposal management for one opportunity
- ◆Compliance matrix and annotated outline
- ◆Color team reviews for that proposal
- ◆Final production and submission support
- ◆Priority turnaround for the length of the pursuit
- ◆Pipeline monitoring and opportunity identification
- ◆Written bid or no-bid recommendations
- ◆One RFI or sources sought response per month
- ◆Monthly pipeline review call
- ◆Dedicated senior team, priority turnaround
- ◆Everything in Bronze, plus:
- ◆Active capture management on one pursuit at a time
- ◆Compliance matrix and annotated outline
- ◆Color team review participation
- ◆Pipeline review calls twice a month
- ◆Everything in Silver, plus:
- ◆Multiple concurrent pursuits
- ◆Full proposal management through submission
- ◆All four color team reviews run for you
- ◆Capture plans, teaming support, and price-to-win input
- ◆Weekly pipeline reviews and post-award debriefs
Every retainer includes a dedicated senior team and priority turnaround. Not sure which tier fits? Bring us your pipeline and we will tell you which one your volume actually calls for - including if the answer is project-based.
Services Provided
By the time the RFP posts, most of the decision is already made.
Agencies talk to industry for months before a solicitation drops. They shape requirements around what they have seen work. By release day, the competitors who were in those conversations are writing to a requirement they helped inform, and everyone else is writing to a document they are reading for the first time.
That gap is not a writing problem, and no amount of polish at the deadline closes it. It is a capture problem, and it is solved twelve months earlier by knowing which pursuits are worth that year of attention.
That is the work we do. The proposal is where it gets proven, but the contract is won well before then.
What actually lands in your inbox.
Consulting engagements go wrong when nobody can point to what was produced. These are the artifacts you keep, whether or not you keep us.
Qualified pipeline
A prioritized opportunity list with agency, vehicle, value, dates, and a qualification score on each - not a spreadsheet of everything on SAM.gov.
Customer call plan
Who to contact at which office, in what order, with what message, and what to ask for on each call.
Capture plan
Win strategy, discriminators, competitor assessment, teaming approach, and gate milestones with owners and dates.
Competitive assessment
Who else bids this, what they will claim, where the incumbent is exposed, and what it will likely take on price.
Compliance matrix
Every Section L and M requirement mapped to a section, a page, an owner, and a due date. Nothing gets missed because it was buried in an attachment.
Annotated outline
The proposal skeleton with win themes, evidence, and graphics placed before a single paragraph is written.
Color team reports
Pink, Red, Gold, and White Team findings written as actions - what to change, where, and why it costs you points if you do not.
Submission package
Final volumes, forms, reps and certs, and a portal upload rehearsal completed before the deadline, not during it.
Monthly pipeline report
Movement, wins, losses, forecast, and what changed - one page your leadership can read in five minutes.
From first call to first win.
Discovery call
Thirty minutes. What you sell, who buys it, what you have won, and what you have lost. No deck.
Pipeline audit
We score what you are already chasing. Some of it usually should not be on the list, and saying so is the fastest money we save you.
Bid or no bid
A written gate decision on each live pursuit, so effort concentrates instead of spreading.
Execute
We run capture and manage the proposal. You stay in your business while the pursuit stays on schedule.
Debrief
Win or lose, we request and work the debrief. Losses become intelligence for the recompete instead of a sunk cost.
Four reviews stand between a draft and a submission.
Nothing goes to the portal that has not survived all four. Select a review.