chromie.dev (YC S26) is an all-in-one business development, capture, and proposal platform that helps firms find, qualify, and win federal and state, local, and education (SLED) government contracts. Built on the founders' 'deterministic stack for web agents' - browser agents that pair LLM reasoning with the reliability of RPA - the platform continuously scrapes procurement portals, fit-scores opportunities, predicts recompetes before they hit the market, extracts buried requirements from RFPs and SOWs, and drafts compliant proposals, with every parsed field traced back to its source clause for audit and QA.
Procurement Sciences is a Washington, D.C.-based company building Awarded AI, an AI-native platform that helps businesses find, win and deliver government contracts. Founded in 2022 by Marine Corps veteran and former contractor Christian Ferreira, the platform automates opportunity discovery, bid decisions, proposal drafting, compliance review and delivery across federal, state, local, education and international markets. After its May 2026 acquisition of market-intelligence platform HigherGov, the combined company serves more than 3,000 government contractors - including close to half of the industry Top 100 - and has contributed to over $100 billion in AI-assisted awarded contracts.
Usul is an AI platform that helps companies win government and defense contracts. Founded in 2024 and part of Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch, it monitors trillions in annual government spending, scrapes DoD contracts, budgets, and Program Executive Offices, then matches companies to relevant opportunities and connects them with the right decision-makers. Often described as 'PitchBook for Government,' Usul aims to make an opaque, insider-driven procurement world navigable for any technology company.
GovDash is an AI-native platform that helps companies win and run U.S. government contracts. It pulls capture, proposal writing, contract management, and post-award delivery into one system of record, powered by an AI agent named Dash. Founded in 2022 and backed by Y Combinator, GovDash says its customers won more than $5 billion in government work in 2025, sometimes turning proposals around in as little as 24 hours.