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What we do

What we do,
and how to start

How engagements work

Most engagements start with an assessment, not a proposal

Engagements fall into three stages: deciding whether federal work is worth it, doing the work itself, and rebuilding the process in software when that's the real bottleneck. We organize the work into five solution areas: Strategy, Operations, Growth, Delivery, and Product.

Most engagements open with a federal readiness assessment rather than a proposal, because that's the fastest way to find out whether the effort is worth it. Two of the five areas, Operations and Product, apply just as directly to commercial clients as to federal ones.

Solutions

Start with an assessment, then five solution areas

Start here: PathFinder and PathWERX

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Strategy

Business and technology strategy, roadmap development, organizational assessment. We start by clarifying what the actual problem is, which is often not the one you were told about. Then we work out what has to be true for the organization to get where it's going, and what the sequence looks like. This is the area that most often surfaces the thing nobody wanted to say out loud.

Operations

Business process improvement, AI and automation, compliance architecture, operational readiness. Most of our AI work lives here, aimed at how an organization runs rather than at a product it sells. We look for the repetitive work that shouldn't need a person, the decisions being made without the information to make them, and the compliance obligations being tracked in somebody's head. Automation is only worth doing after the process is worth keeping.

Growth

Market analysis, pipeline development, opportunity qualification, positioning and pursuit communications, and proposal management and development, across contract, grant, and SBIR/STTR pursuits. Positioning here means the materials federal buyers actually read: capability statements, past performance write-ups, industry day materials, teaming pitches. It's marketing for an audience that reads nothing like a commercial one. We run our own capture. We just don't sell it as a service, which means no relationship campaigns and no requirement shaping on your behalf.

Delivery

Program and project execution for federally funded work, including SBIR/STTR and applied R&D. That covers the unglamorous parts, like standing up a reporting cadence and keeping a technical volume honest against what the team can actually build. It also covers the research itself. Validating a concept, building a prototype, getting to something testable. We hold and perform under a NASA STTR. Advising on research pursuit is common. Having done it is less common, and it changes the quality of the advice.

Product

Product lifecycle management, custom software development and deployment, interface and experience design, website design and development. Platforms, internal tools, prototypes, and first releases. Design is part of the build rather than a separate engagement, because complex software nobody can figure out how to use is just a more expensive problem. This is the area that produced BidWERX and FlytWERX. We build in Webflow, and our own three sites are Webflow, so you can look at the work before deciding whether to hire us for it.

Not sure where you'd start?

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