From the first SAM.gov signal to capture, proposal, award, and delivery — one thread that never resets. Meridian is the AI chief of staff for the smallest teams in federal contracting.
Same thread since the first signal on Feb 3. Nothing re-keyed, nothing lost.
Public procurement data sources. Meridian reads them — they are not customers, partners, or endorsers of this product.
Every pursuit gets shredded across a dozen tools, and every tool forgets. The lesson that cost you the last bid is sitting in an inbox nobody will open again.
…and ten more tabs nobody closes.
When the amendment drops on a Friday, four of those five are already wrong. When the recompete lands eighteen months later, the person who learned the lesson has moved on and the lesson went with them.
Seven stages. One thread. No handoff, no re-keying, no reset.
Signal, qualification call, capture notes, the shred, pricing, pink team, submission, award, delivery — all of it stays on the same thread. So when the recompete surfaces on the radar, the debrief that explains why you lost last time is already sitting three scrolls up, in context, with the citation attached.
Not a CRM with a chatbot bolted on. These are the specific places where a seven-person shop loses to an eighty-person incumbent.
An amendment posts Friday evening. By the time you open your laptop, Meridian has diffed every change, updated the compliance matrix, and assigned the new requirements to owners. You read two lines instead of thirty pages.
The section that killed your last two bids gets flagged before submission — not in the debrief. Then it gets drafted from your own past performance: the surge you actually ran, the staff you actually kept, cited line by line.
35% means 35%. Every probability is trending, explained, and cited — which factor moved it, which evaluation criterion drove the change, which competitor signal came in. No vanity scores that make a bad bid feel survivable.
Contract expirations in FPDS plus published agency forecasts, mapped onto a timeline before the RFP exists. Right now it is watching a real one — VA notice 36C10B26Q0654, where VA states it intends to solicit an SDVOSB HACS requirement on or about the week of Aug 31.
Under the $350K simplified acquisition threshold there is no CPARS record — which is exactly where small firms live. Meridian runs a PPQ engine instead: tracks the questionnaires, chases the references, keeps the proof current.
CMMC Level 2 self-assessment status, your SPRS score, and what the rule actually requires this month — CMMC Phase 2 was suspended in July 2026, so a third-party assessment is queued, not forced. Tracked on the thread and checked against eligibility before you spend three weeks writing. Posture stated exactly as it is, never dressed up.
Federal contracting is won inside thresholds, ceilings and clauses. Meridian is built on the actual numbers — not a generic sales pipeline with agency names pasted in.
The simplified acquisition threshold. Below it, FAR Part 13 applies and there is no CPARS record — so your proof has to come from somewhere else.
The VA sole-source ceiling for verified SDVOSBs under VAAR 819.7008. Price above it and the whole acquisition strategy changes.
What a Phase I actually pays on the current AFWERX release — Release 5 opens Aug 26, closes Sep 23. Budget against the real number or the feasibility plan is fiction.
How GSA schedule task orders — including HACS SIN cyber work — are actually competed. Different rules, different clock, different quote.
Similarly-situated subcontractor hours count toward the prime’s 50% self-performance. That one clause is why a prime wants you on the team.
This is the market a seven-person shop is bidding into this quarter. Every figure below comes from a public source you can pull up yourself.
Government-wide grade A, with SDVOSB awards at $32.5B — above the 5% statutory goal. The set-aside dollars are there.
The vendor base is shrinking. Fewer firms are splitting the same dollars, and the ones still standing are the ones who can keep up with the paperwork.
957 awards, $1.44B obligated under NAICS 541512 so far this fiscal year. Meridian is built for exactly that deal size — not for the multi-billion vehicles.
Q4 historically carries 30–40% of the year’s obligations. These are the weeks that decide whether a small shop files or watches.
Capture software is priced and designed for companies with a business development department. This one is designed for companies where the founder is the business development department.
The proposal gets written after bedtime, in the ninety minutes that are actually yours. Meridian holds the thread while you are gone and hands back the one decision that genuinely needs a human.
No capture manager, no proposal shop, no retained consultant on a monthly draw. The shred, the matrix, the pricing memory and the compliance clock all run without a headcount behind them.
SDVOSB status is a door, not a win. VetCert currency, SPRS score, the CMMC posture exactly as it stands — tracked on the thread instead of carried around in your head until something lapses.
UVMG Federal: $1.6M in trailing revenue, $8.2M of pipeline, and four days to the flagship. Open the thread and see exactly where the weekend stands.