Stop carrying the panic alone
Start with a Capture Readiness Assessment. Bid/no-bid recommendation, capture risk map, missing-artifact list, and sequenced next-step plan — delivered in 1–2 weeks with a written brief and executive readout.
What is the Capture Readiness Assessment
A one-to-two-week fixed-fee engagement for small defense businesses facing a real opportunity, a looming deadline, or a strategic decision their team cannot keep carrying alone. You walk out with a written brief and a sixty-minute executive readout.
What you get
- Bid / no-bid recommendation — A written, defensible recommendation on the specific opportunity, with reasoning your leadership can hand to a board or an investor.
- Capture risk map — The specific risks that will quietly cost you the bid — incumbent posture, evaluator preference, pricing dynamics, schedule traps — laid out where leadership can act on them.
- Missing-artifact list — White papers, capability statements, RFI responses, and compliance documents you need before the RFP drops, sequenced by leverage and effort.
- Sequenced next-step plan — A what-to-do-Monday plan phased over the next 30, 60, and 90 days so the team is not staring at a blank slate after the readout.
- Executive readout — A sixty-minute live readout with your leadership team. Q&A, pressure-test the assumptions, and align on next moves before the engagement ends.
Common fires we hear
- RFP is coming and we are not ready — Pre-solicitation positioning so your team is not behind on day one.
- We need an artifact fast — White paper, RFI, capability statement, or proposal volume on a compressed cycle.
- Which opportunities are worth chasing — Market intelligence translated into a target list with capture rationale.
- CMMC is threatening our pipeline — Gap assessment, SSP, POA&M sequenced by remediation cost and bid-calendar impact.
- Teaming is a trap — Teaming review with IP firewall clauses and pricing-to-win analysis.
- Executive overload — Senior capture judgment on retainer instead of a VP of Capture you cannot yet justify.
How the engagement actually moves
Thirty-minute fit call. Mutual NDA. Fixed-scope proposal. One to two weeks of work, then the written brief and executive readout.