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LeadershipFounded February 2020 · Savannah, GA

Two sides of the same table.

One spent forty years deciding which proposals won. The other builds the software that helps you write them. VETR Proposal is what happens when those two jobs meet.

Evaluated the bids
Dr. Lori Smith, founder of Acu-Elligent LLC and VETR Proposal

Dr. Lori Smith

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Acu-Elligent LLC
Retired federal Contracting Officer

Lori spent more than four decades inside federal acquisition, on the side of the table that reads proposals rather than writes them. As a Contracting Officer she ran source selection and award across portfolios totaling $143B — which means she has read and scored more proposals than most contractors will ever submit.

She founded Acu-Elligent LLC in Savannah, Georgia in February 2020 to give small businesses the perspective she had from the inside, and developed the VETR methodology — Value, Experience, Teaming, Responsiveness — that the platform is built on. Every rule VETR scores against, and every claim it refuses to make, traces back to that experience.

In federal acquisition
40+ years
Portfolios awarded
$143B
Founded Acu-Elligent
February 2020
Based in
Savannah, Georgia
info@acuelligent.comLinkedIn profile for Dr. Lori Smith
Builds the platform
Raihan, Head of Engineering & AI at VETR Proposal

Raihan

Akteruzzaman Raihan Sikder
Head of Engineering & AI, VETR Proposal
Full-stack and AI/ML engineering

Raihan has built VETR Proposal end to end since the first commit in July 2025 — the Laravel and React application, the multi-tenant data model, the AI layer, and the AWS GovCloud infrastructure it runs on. He took it from an empty repository to a platform live at vetrproposal.com in ten months, then moved the whole thing into the government cloud.

The parts customers actually touch are his too: the parser that reads a solicitation into a compliance matrix, the four-pillar VETR Score, the win-probability model that refuses to predict from too few examples rather than guess, and the retrieval layer that keeps every AI draft grounded in the customer's own past performance.

His focus is the part of AI that government buyers ask about first: where the data goes. He moved every model call in-boundary to Amazon Bedrock and closed external LLM egress, and built the tenant-isolation and append-only audit layers that the SOC 2 Type II and FedRAMP 20x preparation work rests on.

Building VETR since
July 2025
Runs on
AWS GovCloud
Stack
Laravel · React · Bedrock
Focus
AI systems & compliance engineering
raihan@vetrproposal.comLinkedIn profile for Raihan
An Acu-Elligent Product

VETR Proposal is built by Acu-Elligent LLC, the federal contracting consultancy Dr. Smith founded in February 2020. The methodology came first and the software followed.

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