Strong programs start before the call opens
How the problem is framed, who sees it, and how submissions move to award decide most of a program’s outcome. We work it out with your office, so your first cycle opens ready.
A better start for every cycle
The right field shows up
Your call reaches the companies and researchers already working on the problem, not just those watching the portal.
Day one is ready before day one
Intake, review, and award are designed up front, so nobody invents a process mid-cycle.
The office keeps the context
Scouting, criteria, and reasoning live in the program’s record, not a departing colleague’s inbox.
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What’s included
Program and solicitation design
A problem statement, evaluation criteria, and solicitation written with your office, starting from what you need to field and working back to the words.
Scouting and vendor discovery
Companies, labs, and researchers mapped against your requirement, with the relationships and track records a simple list doesn’t show.
What the office walks away with: A field map you can act on: who to invite, who to watch, and who keeps showing up.
Example: STRIKEWERX, where market research now feeds the problem definition workshop instead of holding it up.
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Workflow and experience design
The path a submission takes, from what applicants fill out to how decisions get recorded, designed with your office and built in your program’s branding.
Forward deployed engineer
An engineer working alongside your office to turn work you do by hand every cycle, like market research or a monthly brief, into a workflow your team reruns.
What the office walks away with: A workflow you own, with every finding traced to its source and its builder still on hand.
Example: STRIKEWERX, where vendors qualified per market research run went from 5 to 30.
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Your plan, built into the platform
What gets decided before the call opens is built into the platform the program runs on, so the office never has to carry it across by hand.
Intelligence
The field map and the scouting workflows live here, ready to rerun when the next requirement comes in.
Source
The solicitation, the criteria, and the intake-to-award path are configured here before the call opens.
Acquire
Funding program topics and the award path are set up here before the first proposal arrives.
Market research was gated by a six-month campaign cycle, and it was done by hand. Built as a workflow the team reruns, it went from 12.5 hours per report to about one; vendors qualified per run went from 5 to 30, and the research now feeds the problem definition workshop instead of holding it up.
The same team, every stage after
The same team can stay with you through the run and after the awards, with everything from planning already on the record.
Run
Stand it up and keep the ideas from getting lost. Everything while the program runs: the platform set up for the program’s rules, the sessions run and captured, the outreach done, and the community kept active.
Win
Carry the best ideas toward the field. Everything after the awards: the performers supported, the recurring work turned into something the office reruns, and the record ready before the next cycle opens.
Your next call starts with a better plan
A requirement, a rough problem statement, or a call that drew the wrong field last time. We’ll help you shape it into a program the right people answer.
Contracting vehicles
Direct award pathways, no new competition required.
Collaboration.Ai’s prior SBIR work makes it eligible for sole-source Phase III awards. Under 15 U.S.C. § 638(r)(4), those awards may be made without further competition.
Where Phase III does not apply, we’ll work with your office to find the contracting pathway that fits. Contracting vehicles →