CLEATUS Blog

SBIR and STTR are the federal government's largest non-dilutive R&D programs — roughly $4 billion a year across 11 agencies. Here is how to find SBIR/STTR opportunities, understand the phases, qualify, and stop missing topics buried across agency portals.

CLEATUS is now a ChatGPT app for government contractors. Find federal contracts, track competitors, manage your pipeline, and draft proposals without leaving ChatGPT.

Grants.gov is the official database of every federal grant and cooperative agreement, with ~1,820 active opportunities at any given time. Here is how to find federal grants you actually qualify for, set up alerts, and avoid the noise.

A 22-year low-voltage technology integrator uses CLEATUS to turn opportunity discovery from a weekend job into a sorted feed, and proposal drafts from blank-doc rewrites into past-performance-grounded responses.

CLEATUS raised a $4M seed round co-led by Las Olas VC and REVO Capital to make government contracting accessible to every small business through AI.

Every major GovCon intelligence platform now markets AI features. But most of what is shipping is search with a chatbot skin. We break down what is real, what is marketing, and what contractors should actually care about.

Dorsey's intelligent company thesis describes how AI will run the inside of every business. But contractors win or lose on what happens outside. Here's the missing layer, and why CLEATUS fills it.

What real AI proposal writing for federal, state, and local contracts actually looks like in 2026: planning before drafting, structured bid packages, requirement cross-checking, cited past performance, and agentic editing. A practical guide for contractors evaluating the tools claiming to do it.

Every federal contract award is a signal — someone just got paid to deliver work that almost always needs subcontractors, vendors, and suppliers. Here's the manual process most GovCon BD teams use to generate leads from contract awards, why it breaks down at scale, and how automated workflows are changing the economics of post-award business development.

26 pre-built GovCon workflow templates inside CLEATUS. Automate opportunity screening, capture planning, monitoring, reporting, and CRM integration in minutes.

CLEATUS launched the Prompt Library in January 2025 — a purpose-built system for government contractors to create, organize, and share AI prompt templates across capture and proposal workflows. Here's what makes it different from what everyone else is now copying.

OASIS+ is now the government's primary contract vehicle for non-IT professional services — with 13 domains, no spending ceiling, and continuous on-ramps. Every task order flows through GSA eBuy. Here's how OASIS+ works, how eBuy fits in, and how CLEATUS surfaces task orders automatically.