Federal BD intelligence · Cited to the page
Every other platform is paid to show you more pipeline. FedSift reads the actual solicitation documents and ends on a bid / no-bid verdict — with the gate that failed, the clause that killed it, and the exact PDF page it came from. When the documents can't support a call, it says “insufficient evidence” instead of guessing.
Or read them without signing in: every open federal solicitation, by NAICS code, or by agency.
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The difference
A no-win pursuit costs a small shop $15–30K in capture and proposal labour. Incumbents take roughly 70% of recompetes. So the most valuable thing a BD tool can do is take a bad pursuit off your desk early — and be able to prove why.
FedSift ends every analysed solicitation on one of five verdicts — NO-BID, BID, BID AS SUB, BID WITH TEAM, or INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE — above a gate ledger showing exactly what passed and what failed:
Export it as a one-page cited memo — the thing you hand an owner who saw a big ceiling number and wants to know why you walked away.
Also
FedSift connects directly to Claude and ChatGPT, and to any other MCP client. Attach your account once and ask for recompete targets, fit-ranked matches, or agency intelligence in plain language — answered from your own profile and pipeline, not from the open web.
You ask “Which contracts in my NAICS expire in the next 12 months where the incumbent is a large business and we'd be credible as a sub?”
Your assistant answers using FedSift's recompete radar, urgency scores, incumbent tenure and your company profile — then links every row back into the app.
https://api.fedsift.app/api/mcp.
Thirteen tools that replace a stack of tabs, spreadsheets, and guesswork — grouped by how a capture actually runs.
Most federal tools do one slice — live search, or document Q&A, or analyst-grade market data at enterprise price. FedSift goes deep on the documents and runs the whole BD workflow, at a price a small business can carry.
| Capability | FedSift | Point search tools | Document-Q&A tools | Enterprise suites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search every live SAM.gov solicitation | ● | ● | ◐ | ● |
| Profile-scored Smart Matches (semantic + NAICS + set-aside) | ● | ◐ | — | ◐ |
| Deep document analysis — every requirement, risk & deal-breaker cited to its PDF page | ● | — | ● | ◐ |
| Matches & recompetes emailed to you automatically | ● | ◐ | — | ● |
| Recompete & demand prediction — engage before the RFP drops | ● | — | — | ● |
| Agency intelligence — spend, incumbents, offices, POCs, set-aside flow | ● | — | — | ● |
| Teaming-partner ranking (FAR 19 / SBA size standards) | ● | — | — | ◐ |
| Bid pipeline + cited PDF briefs | ● | — | — | ◐ |
| Built for | BD & capture teams | Daily searchers | SOW readers | Analyst desks |
| Typical price | Free forever · Pro $49/mo | Low | Entry SaaS | $$$ enterprise |
✓ full · ◐ partial · – not offered. Document-Q&A tools answer one question at a time; FedSift pre-extracts every requirement and deal-breaker up front, each cited to its source page — so you get the answers without knowing which question to ask.
A two-minute tour of the BD workflow end to end — from a NAICS search to a defended bid/no-bid decision.
Incumbents win ~70% of recompetes — but the team that engages 6–18 months out can still shape the requirement. FedSift's urgency score peaks exactly there, so the right pursuits surface at the right moment.
What FedSift does with that window
One missed recompete costs more than any software you'll buy this year.
Starter is free forever — no credit card, no expiry. And every account is on Pro at no cost until 31 March 2027, so you can try the whole thing before deciding.
No credit card, no expiry
Find the work. The full discovery stack, at no cost.
or $490/yr — 2 months free
The whole BD workflow — unlimited analysis, full intelligence.
Everything in Starter, plus:
5 seats included
Shared pipeline for a capture team.
Want it sooner? Tell us at support@fedsift.app.
No credit card, and nothing gets charged by surprise. Starter stays free forever — it is a real plan, not a trial. Every account is also on Pro at no cost until 31 March 2027, and you'll be emailed well before any charge. Questions? support@fedsift.app
Yes — and it goes one better than asking one question at a time. FedSift reads the entire solicitation and its attachments and pre-extracts every requirement, evaluation factor, key risk, win theme, and deal-breaker, each with a verbatim quote and the exact PDF page it came from. You get a full compliance matrix and an AI insight brief without reading the 100-page SOW yourself, and you can click any clause through to its source page to verify it.
Yes. Save any search as a custom filter, get in-app alerts the moment new matches or expiring-contract recompetes appear in your space, and schedule recompete and insight email digests on your own cadence. The new opportunities find you by email — you don't have to log in daily to look.
In a blind evaluation across 12 real government contractors spanning 12 sectors — IT, construction, healthcare, logistics, real estate, staffing, security, engineering and more — 9 in 10 of the opportunities FedSift surfaced were rated relevant. Every match was checked two ways: by an independent, web-grounded AI judge and by hand — and the two agreed on all 58 spot-checked pairs. Matching blends semantic similarity with NAICS, set-aside, and keyword scoring against your profile, and a relevance gate drops wrong-industry look-alikes rather than padding the list.
FedSift pulls deal-breakers, requirements, and win themes straight from the solicitation — each with a verbatim quote and the exact PDF page. In a blind, document-grounded evaluation, 96% of extracted deal-breakers were grounded in the solicitation text, and 100% of cited quotes were verifiably present in the source — no fabricated citations. Every one was checked two ways: by an independent AI judge and by hand, which agreed on all 23 spot-checked deal-breakers. Separately, FedSift reconciles its set-aside and competition-type labels against SAM.gov's authoritative data, so its classifications agreed with the government's own record in 100% of audited notices — an AI reading you can defend clause by clause.
Yes. Every score, match, and compliance matrix is tailored to your company profile, NAICS codes, set-aside certifications, and size. FedSift shows where 8(a) / SDVOSB / WOSB / HUBZone dollars flow, gives a deterministic prime-vs-sub recommendation, and ranks teaming partners — surfacing the larger primes a small business can sub under, not just other small firms. Starter is free forever, with no credit card.
Yes, and in two separate ways. Starter is free forever — a real plan, not a trial, with no credit card and no expiry date. It carries discovery and smart matches, the recompete radar, demand signals, saved searches, email digests, unlimited pipeline tracking, and 10 AI insights plus 3 compliance matrices every month, resetting on the 1st.
On top of that, every account is currently on Pro at no cost until 31 March 2027, so you can use the unlimited analysis and the full intelligence layer before deciding whether to pay for them. After that date Pro is $49/mo ($490/yr), with a 5-seat Team plan at $199/mo coming later. Annual is two months free. We'll email you well before any charge — nothing gets billed by surprise, and if you do nothing you land on Starter rather than losing your account.
Starter (free forever) is the find-the-work half: one company profile, discovery and smart matches, the recompete radar, demand signals, saved searches, in-app alerts, email digests, unlimited pipeline tracking, and 10 AI insights plus 3 compliance matrices a month.
Pro ($49/mo) adds the decide-and-win half: three company profiles, unlimited AI insights and compliance matrices, agency intelligence, incumbent dossiers, teaming-partner ranking, market research, contract vehicles, policy watch, the bid tracker, PDF briefs, uploading your own SOW / PWS / Q&A documents, the MCP connector for Claude and ChatGPT, and priority support.
The practical split: if you are chasing a handful of pursuits a month, Starter's 10 deep analyses cover it and cost nothing. If you are running a real pipeline, the unlimited analysis and the intelligence layer are the reason Pro exists.
SAM.gov for live solicitations, USASpending.gov + FPDS for award history. All public federal data — refreshed nightly. We never use scraped or paywalled sources.
Most tools do one slice: live opportunity search, or document Q&A, or analyst-grade market data at enterprise price. FedSift runs the whole BD workflow in one app — discovery and profile-scored Smart Matches, deep cited document analysis, recompete and demand prediction, agency intelligence, teaming, and a bid pipeline — and it goes deep on documents (every requirement cited to its page) and pushes matches to you automatically. Purpose-built for the BD director and capture manager, not for IT analysts — we surface the 6–18 month window where capture decisions actually happen, and cite every AI claim to the source PDF page so you can defend the bid/no-bid call to your CRO.
Three things: (1) extracting compliance requirements from solicitations with verbatim-quote citations + page numbers; (2) ranking teaming partners with a six-signal model anchored in FAR 19 + 13 CFR 121 rules; (3) computing a 0–100 urgency score per expiring contract using a transparent formula (time + value + incumbent + competition). No black-box scoring; every number has a breakdown.
Your company profile, saved searches, and bid-tracker state are stored in our database. We never share profile data between users. Cancel and we delete on request — see privacy.
Start on the free tier — no card required — and only upgrade to Pro once FedSift is surfacing recompetes in your space. We cover the federal services, supply, and construction NAICS families that account for ~85% of federal spend; niche codes get sparser data and we'll tell you that up front.
Yes — both, plus any other MCP client. FedSift runs a remote
MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, so you attach
your account as a custom connector and ask for recompete targets,
fit-ranked matches, agency intelligence, incumbent dossiers, or your
pipeline in plain language — answered from your own profile and data.
The connector URL is https://api.fedsift.app/api/mcp;
setup takes about two minutes and is
described above. In ChatGPT, turn on
Developer mode first (Settings → Apps → Advanced settings) —
that's what ChatGPT requires for a full custom connector.
It's read-only — fourteen tools that read your matches, recompete radar, agency and incumbent data, pipeline, and any compliance matrix you already generated. It cannot change your pipeline, spend your AI analysis quota, or read documents you uploaded privately. Access uses OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, is scoped to your account alone, and you can revoke it instantly from Settings → Integrations. Your assistant's own token usage runs on your Claude or ChatGPT plan — we don't add a charge for it.
