Why RFP Pipeline
The fastest, cheapest way to win non-dilutive federal R&D funding.
Whether you've never heard of SBIR or you've already won three, the bottleneck is the same: finding the right opportunities and building compliant proposals without burning a month of payroll. We remove it.
New to federal R&D
There's money you don't know exists.
Federal agencies award billions a year in grant-like R&D funding. It is non-dilutive — you keep your equity and your IP. Most qualifying companies never apply, because the process looks impenetrable. It is not, with the right system behind you.
Already in the game
You're bleeding time and margin.
You know the drill: a monitoring service you overpay for, a consultant who takes a cut of your award, deadlines that slip, and your best engineer pulled off the product to write proposals. There is a better stack — and it costs a fraction of what you pay now.
The cost of the old way
What you pay today vs. what you pay us.
Small businesses chase federal R&D the expensive way: a monitoring service, a consultant who takes a cut, a BD hire, or the founder’s own nights. Here’s the same job, re-priced.
Active opportunity monitoring
$5,000 / mo
what our founder paid for a monitoring service
With RFP Pipeline
$299 / mo
Expert-curated monitoring for about 6% of the price — a human reads every solicitation, not just a keyword feed.
A proposal consultant
10% of award
a $1M Phase II is $100,000 — or a heavy monthly retainer
With RFP Pipeline
$999 / $1,999 flat
Keep the $100K. Pay for the build, never a cut of your win.
An in-house BD hire
$90–150K / yr
loaded salary, plus the months to find and ramp them
With RFP Pipeline
$299/mo + per-proposal
Your business-development department, without the headcount.
Your founder's nights & weekends
Your scarcest hours
your best engineer pulled off the product to chase RFPs
With RFP Pipeline
Hours back
Stop trading product velocity for proposal paperwork.
Why it wins
Expert + AI + Process.
Not just software. Not just a consultant. A structured system where a human expert, your own isolated AI, and a stage-gated process do what neither people nor tools do alone.
Your data. Your AI.
Every company gets isolated AI agents that see only their data. No shared context, no cross-contamination, no leakage between tenants.
The AI drafts. The expert verifies.
Every opportunity is curated by a human with 25 years of federal R&D experience. Every AI draft is marked and reviewed. Nothing unvetted reaches your submission.
Stage-gated quality.
Proposals move through defined stages with compliance checks at every gate. No shortcutting the review. No submitting without verification.
The compounding advantage
Every cycle gets cheaper, faster, and better.
Your library grows.
Every upload, every proposal section, every past-performance narrative becomes reusable material. Your AI team gets smarter with every document.
Compliance pre-fills.
Verified values from your last cycle auto-suggest for the next. Page limits, font rules, submission format — the system remembers what the expert already verified.
Your win rate compounds.
More proposals submitted. Higher quality each time. Less time per cycle. Your cost-per-proposal drops while your pipeline scales — no BD department required.
How it works
Find. Build. Submit. Improve.
Find
Daily ingestion across SAM.gov, SBIR.gov, Grants.gov, and agency portals — expert-curated and ranked to your tech areas.
Build
Buy a portal when you find a fit. Your isolated AI drafts against your library; you and your team revise in a stage-gated workspace.
Submit & improve
Export a compliant, submission-ready package. Every cycle feeds the next — the system gets more accurate and less expensive over time.
The proof
Curated by an expert who's done it for 25 years.
Eric Wagner has personally secured hundreds of millions in SBIR, STTR, BAA, and OTA funding. He reviews every application and curates every opportunity in your pipeline — you always know who curated it, and why.
Meet the expert →Applications open · Founding cohort
Make federal R&D your next non-dilutive raise.
Apply to the founding cohort. Eric reviews every application within 72 hours.