Built by the people who used to award the contracts you're now bidding on.
VETR is the AI proposal co-pilot for small businesses competing in federal contracting — turning the slowest, most error-prone parts of proposal management into minutes of work, so you can bid more, bid smarter, and win on merit.
Retired federal Contracting Officer with 40+ years of experience and portfolios totaling $143B in awarded contracts.
Small businesses deserve every advantage when bidding for federal work.
We built VETR from the seat of a former contracting officer — so that the next generation of bidders walks in knowing what's actually being scored, what's actually being bought, and how to win on merit.
VETR automates the complexity so your team focuses on the work that actually wins. The platform reads the solicitation, builds the compliance matrix, drafts the volumes, scores the bid, and packages the submission.
Open to every small business serious about federal work. Every roadmap call starts with a customer conversation; every release ships with a veteran and a non-veteran small-business owner on the review.
Six jobs. Minutes, not weeks.
The slowest, most error-prone parts of proposal management, turned into minutes of work.
Reads RFPs in about 90 seconds
Drop in any solicitation and our AI extracts Section L/M requirements, FAR/DFARS clauses, and submission rules automatically.
See the RFP parserBuilds your compliance matrix
Every requirement auto-mapped, gap analysis with action items, and an audit-ready trail — exportable on demand.
See compliance trackingScores every opportunity
The VETR Score — a four-pillar bid/no-bid framework built on Value, Experience, Teaming and Responsiveness, with published weights you can audit.
How the score worksGenerates winning content
RAG-grounded drafts with inline citations to your past performance, NAICS-aware framing, and section-by-section generation.
See the AI copilotSurfaces the right partners
Teaming recommendations by complementary capability and small-business set-aside status, with agreement templates.
Browse the directoryPredicts your odds
A Win Probability engine trained on your own win history, and a past-performance library that makes every win tell the next bid what to do.
See win probabilityIn-boundary on AWS GovCloud.
Controls mapped to NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC Level 2 practices. Your proposal content never leaves the boundary and is never used to train shared models.
Who it's for
Veterans, women, minority and disadvantaged business owners across every set-aside programme — plus every small business serious about federal work.
Four disciplines.
One winning workflow.
The four pillars that govern how VETR thinks about every federal proposal.
Value
Quantify and communicate the measurable ROI your solution delivers to the government.
Experience
Showcase past performance and relevant capabilities that prove you can deliver.
Teaming
Build winning partnerships with complementary capabilities and certifications.
Responsiveness
Demonstrate agility, communication, and the ability to meet every deadline.
Operating principles, not platitudes.
Federal contracting should be winnable on merit
Businesses of any size, with the right preparation, can win federal work. Our job is the preparation.
Methodology beats magic
The VETR Framework is open. The software is the moat. Anyone can adopt the methodology; few can execute it under deadline.
Built by a retired Contracting Officer, open to all small business
Founded by Dr. Lori Smith — she awarded the contracts you are now bidding for. Designed for every small business serious about federal work.
Audit trail by default
Every change, every approval, every revision — logged to an append-only trail, retained, exportable. The procurement officer never has to ask twice.
From pilot to platform.
- 2020
Acu-Elligent LLC founded in Savannah, Georgia by Dr. Lori Smith.
- 2022
VETR Framework concept formed — Value, Experience, Teaming, Responsiveness.
- 2024
Methodology codified and prototyped against live RFPs.
- 2025
AI RFP Parser, four-pillar VETR Score, and compliance matrix built and validated.
- 2026
Early-access launch. First cohort of veteran-owned firms onboarded; Enterprise tier released and government-edition integrations entering preparation.
Acu-Elligent LLC helps small businesses win federal contracts.
Founded by Dr. Lori Smith, a retired federal Contracting Officer with 40+ years of experience and portfolios totaling $143B in awarded contracts, Acu-Elligent gives small businesses the insider perspective they need to navigate federal RFPs and win federal, state, and local awards.
VETR is the proposal-management product within the Acu-Elligent platform of tools for small business growth in the federal space.
What Acu-Elligent does
- Proposal analysis and writing
Position your business as eligible and compelling, even with limited past performance.
- Registration and compliance validation
SAM.gov, SBA certifications, VetCert, DSBS, and set-aside qualifications.
- 8(a) and set-aside program guidance
Including WOSB, SDVOSB, HUBZone, and DBE strategy for minority and woman-owned firms.
- Project management and CPARS positioning
Deliver clean past performance that unlocks the next award.
- Subcontracting and teaming strategy
Mentor-Protégé, JV, and prime/sub structures.
Industries served
The VETR Framework and VETR Proposal Platform
Acu-Elligent developed the VETR methodology — Value, Experience, Teaming, Responsiveness — and the VETR Proposal AI platform (vetrproposal.com) for federal contractors ready to move from consulting engagements to a scaled proposal system.
Government contracting doesn't have to be hard. Contact us to see how we can help you win.
Bid more. Bid smarter. Win on merit.
Founding-member pricing available now. 14-day free trial, no credit card required.
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