captureagent.us• 3d ago• 1 min read
Show HN: CaptureAgent – find, price, draft, grade, run and fund federal workI’m a 2x defense founder and aerospace engineer.I initially built CaptureAgent for my own company, but now I want to share it with other founders. While running my defense startup, I lost days deciding which federal opportunities to pursue and weeks assembling teams, researching competitors, pricing work, checking compliance, negotiating with subcontractors, and writing proposals. I see startups and the small-business industrial base as one of America’s secret weapons, but small business win rate for federal funding is between 17-22% annually and competing for funding can push founders away from the companies they set out to build. To keep my company afloat, I sometimes pursued tangential tech areas instead of staying focused on our original vision. Pursuing poor-fit opportunities, or being disqualified over technicalities, consumed runway and pulled me away from engineering.The software, consultants, and proposal shops I engaged or worked with were expensive and still left much of the
