SamSearch is an AI platform for government contracting (GovCon), positioned as the "operating system for government contracting," designed to automate the entire government contracting process, from early intelligence gathering to proposal submission.
In terms of purpose, SamSearch serves the full lifecycle of government contracting business, including market intelligence, opportunity capture, pricing, proposals, contracts, and delivery. Through AI agents, the platform finds, reads, and filters opportunities across various markets, helping users identify qualified projects from massive amounts of solicitation information.
Key capabilities include:
- AI opportunity discovery and filtering: AI agents automatically find, read, and qualify opportunities across markets, extract requirements, build compliance matrices, and automatically present key insights.
- Capture management: Provides recompete predictions, predictive analytics, incumbent intelligence, and buying signals to help users shape requirements before competitors.
- GovCon CRM: Tracks pipelines, supports collaboration among business development, capture, and proposal teams, and keeps every project moving forward.
- Proposal generation: Generates complete bid packages, including proposal volumes and government form completion, with every response grounded in the solicitation documents and organizational knowledge.
- Financing connections: After award, the platform flags working capital gaps and introduces financing partners specializing in government contracts, providing up to $100 million in capital.
- Integration capabilities: Integrates with existing tech stacks, including Microsoft 365 Documents, Google Workspace Documents, GSA eBuy Vehicles, pipeline sync to CRM, alerts sent to Slack or Teams, and documents remain in place.
In terms of usage, SamSearch automates each stage through AI infrastructure, with AI agents carrying context between stages, eliminating duplicate entry or lost information. The platform provides enterprise-grade onboarding support, including a dedicated SamSearch expert responsible from launch through adoption. The onboarding process includes: workspace go-live on Day 1, building the company profile, migrating pipelines, and saved searches; a team meeting on Day 3 to calibrate criteria based on real opportunities; and production readiness by the end of Week 1, running projects, receiving alerts in Slack or Teams, and completing the first agent run. It supports SAML 2.0 single sign-on (using existing identity providers), with role-based permissions and enforced MFA.
In terms of use cases, SamSearch is suitable for various government contractingvendors, including federal, state, local, and education (SLED) markets. The platform covers more than 50,000 agencies. Case examples show users obtaining relevant opportunities and winning contracts by filtering large volumes of solicitations, such as filtering from 25,489 opportunities down to 6,969 matches and winning 28 federal awards totaling $37.5 million; filtering from 6,090 down to 2,413 viable SLED opportunities; and identifying 226 qualified retail bids from 11,260 solicitations.
In terms of limitations, specific pricing, free trials, or charging models for the platform are not yet provided in the available information. The platform has a rating of 4.9/5 on G2 and has helped win more than $3 billion in government contracts. In terms of security and compliance, the platform undergoes independent CPA-audited SOC 2 Type II, has completed a CMMC Level 1 self-assessment with Level 2 in progress, hosts data only in U.S. regions, does not use user data to train shared models, does not sell it externally, and has undergone third-party independent penetration testing with an A+ rating.
