Helping put the world’s ingenuity to work on its most important missions
Great ideas come from everywhere: small businesses, university labs, startups, and the people already inside your organization. Too often they never reach the missions that need them most. We exist to change that. Whether the mission is a defense program or a commercial innovation effort, we connect it with the people and ideas that can move it forward.
We’ve walked the path we’re making easier.
Collaboration.Ai began in 2017 and won our first Small Business Innovation Research contract in 2018. We learned firsthand how hard government innovation is to navigate as a small business: finding the right topic, writing to requirements you can’t always see behind, waiting on decisions, and then working out how to get from a first award to a program that actually fields what you built. Plenty of good technology never makes that trip.
Now we build the software and run the services for the offices on the other side of the table. That means a clearer, more accessible path for the small businesses competing for the work, and a faster, better-documented process for the program officers running it. When both sides can move with confidence, the best ideas reach the mission sooner.
Program offices are asked to find the best ideas, move them through a demanding process, and stand behind every decision, often with small teams and constant turnover. Our job is to give them software and managed services that make that work faster and more reliable, so the capability they’re after reaches the mission sooner.
Every breakthrough starts with someone who sees a better way. Too often, that person never gets the chance to prove it because the path to the right program is too hard to find or too slow to follow. We built Collaboration.Ai to unlock that potential, so great ideas don’t stall out before they reach the people who need them.
Our vision
Create a world where every important mission can draw on the best people and ideas, wherever they come from.
Today the easy path usually wins. Programs return to familiar vendors, proven solutions get lost between projects, and promising newcomers never get a fair look. We’re building toward a future where the best answer gets found and used, even when it comes from somewhere unexpected. Open solicitations and challenges make that possible, and we want them to be the norm.
Our mission
We give the people who run innovation programs one platform to find the right ideas, make better decisions, and carry solutions all the way to use, without losing what they’ve learned.
Innovation teams and program leaders do some of the hardest work in any organization. Our software and services support them at every stage. They can discover ideas from a wider range of sources, evaluate them with clarity and confidence, and turn the best ones into real outcomes. Every program also builds on the knowledge of the last one, so insight, relationships and proven solutions carry forward instead of starting over each time.
What makes us different
Software, people and proven programs, working together so good ideas don’t get lost on the way to the mission.
The software
Every Collaboration.Ai product runs on NetworkOS, one foundation for data, security and records. What a program learns stays on its own record, so each new cycle or product starts from what came before instead of from scratch.
The people
We don’t hand you a login and walk away. Our Mission Success team sets up the software around your program’s workflows and stays with you from planning through execution, so your program delivers results and not just activity.
The programs
Defense offices, federal agencies and companies already run their innovation programs on Collaboration.Ai, including open calls, funding programs and internal idea campaigns. The platform is proven where the stakes are high and the requirements are strict.
The people behind the work
Our team has built innovation programs from the inside, and we bring that experience to every mission we support.
Do work that matters
We believe the best ideas can come from anywhere, and that includes our own team. At Collaboration.Ai, you’ll help defense programs, federal agencies, and companies find and use the people and ideas that move their missions forward. If you want your work to have real impact, we’d like to hear from you.
Have a mission that needs the best ideas?
We’ll help you find them, wherever they come from.