Pursuit triage
A structured read on an opportunity before the bid decision: fit, competitive reality, staffing exposure, and the margin shape after award. The output is a recommendation you can defend to a board, not a score.
Federal capture and delivery
Winning the work is the easy half.
Most small federal contractors do not lose because they cannot write a proposal. They lose because they pursued the wrong opportunity, or won one that became a staffing and margin problem ninety days after award. CLU brings the judgment to tell those apart, and the operating discipline to deliver what you sign.
Capture
Decide what is worth pursuing before you spend a bid budget proving it was not.
Lead
Program judgment from people who have carried federal work through award and transition.
Unify
One operating picture across pipeline, delivery, and governance, so nothing lives only in someone's head.
What we actually do
Delivery operating system
The cadence, artifacts, and reporting that let a small team execute like a larger one. Built so a program survives the departure of any single person who understood it.
AI governance
Practical controls for teams putting AI into federal work: what gets logged, who approves what, and where the human stays in the loop. Built to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and structured to ISO/IEC 42001.
CLU is not certified under NIST or ISO/IEC 42001, and holds no set aside status, exclusive arrangement, or special access to any federal agency. We are an advisory and delivery firm, and we compete on judgment.
Resources
Working material we use with clients. No sales sequence attached, and we will not pass your address to anyone.
The Bid/No-Bid Scorecard
Score your own pursuit across seven weighted dimensions, plus four disqualifying gates that override any score. If you are bidding everything, this is the tool that tells you which ones you were never going to win.
Request itThe Dormant Vehicle Checklist
You hold the vehicle. You are not winning task orders. Fifteen questions that locate the reason, and the four fixes in the order that actually works.
Request itAI Governance Starter Set
The minimum viable control set for a contractor introducing AI into federal delivery: an acceptable use policy, an approval path, and a logging standard you can hand to an assessor.
Request itWho you would be working with
A small team of operators, not a bench of generalists.
Program leadership
Federal programs carried through capture, award, transition, and delivery. That is the experience that separates an opportunity worth pursuing from one that becomes a margin problem later.
Operations and security
Decades in IT and security, including federal system security authorization work. Builds the operating systems that let small teams deliver like large ones.
Business development
Two decades in federal business development and capture. Owns the relationships and the pipeline motion that generate the first client conversations.
Start a conversation
Tell us the pursuit you are weighing, or the resource you want. We answer personally, usually within a business day.