Your BD week is a receipt for tools that don't talk.
A typical 8-person federal shop runs GovWin for intel, a spreadsheet for pipeline, SharePoint for capture, Word for win themes, and a CRM nobody updates. The work lives in the gaps between them.
The question that should take 10 seconds, “what's our position on this pursuit,” takes a 30-minute meeting.
One workspace replaces a stack the primes use against you.
A typical 8-person federal shop runs four tools and 60+ manual hours a month to do what one workspace can do in the background.
| MANUAL / SPREADSHEETS | GOVWIN + SALESFORCE + SHAREPOINT | LEX CIVIS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup time | Weeks | 4–8 weeks of implementation | 24 hours |
| Annual cost (8-person firm) | 60+ hrs/month of labor | $25K–$40K/yr in seats & licenses | $13,430/yr |
| Contract length | — | 1–3 year lock-ins | Month-to-month |
| SAM.gov coverage | Manual searches | ✓ | ✓ |
| Opportunity scoring | Gut feel | Generic templates | AI-scored to your fit profile |
| Capture plan drafting | Word doc from scratch | Empty SharePoint folder | Capture read + win-theme starters |
| Win-theme generation | ✕ | ✕ | 3 starters per pursuit |
| Incumbent threat tracking | Manual research | Partial (GovWin) | Threat Ledger, continuous |
| Daily executive brief | ✕ | ✕ | Command Brief, configured during onboarding |
| Built for SDVOSBs / firms <50 | — | Built for primes | Purpose-built |
| Seats | — | Per-seat pricing | Per-firm, seats by tier |
GovWin and Salesforce Gov Cloud weren't built for your firm. They were built for the primes you compete against. Lex Civis is built for the 8-person team that wears 24 hats.
Run the full workspace for 30 days. If you don't use it, email me and I refund the month. No runaround. My address: kyle@lexcivis.ai.
Four surfaces. One shared brain.
Intel, Pipeline, Capture, and Command, in one workspace, with five agents doing the connective work between them.
Intel
Live SAM.gov feed · agency forecasts · recompete radar · incumbent tracking · threat ledger
GovWin IQ · HigherGov · manual SAM.gov searches · USASpending tabs
You stop missing opportunities. Every signal that matters hits one feed.
Pipeline
Pursuit board · IRL scoring · PWIN · target list · stage automation
Excel pipelines · Salesforce Gov Cloud · the whiteboard in your conference room
Your pipeline is the source of truth, not the file someone forgot to update.
Capture
Capture plans · win-theme drafts · teaming intel · past performance library · solicitation analysis
SharePoint folders · Word docs · tribal knowledge
Every pursuit walks into review with a capture read and win-theme starters.
Command
Daily command brief · exec dashboard · agent activity feed · decisions log
Monday status meetings · email threads · the gap between leadership and the BD team
Your principal opens one tab in the morning and knows exactly where every pursuit stands.
Your firm forgets what it promised. The workspace doesn't.
Every proposal you've submitted, every RFP you've answered, every go/no-go memo you've written holds the answer to the next pursuit. Today that knowledge lives in one person's head and a SharePoint folder nobody opens.
Drop those documents in. The workspace reads them, indexes them, and keeps them where only your firm can reach them. When the next solicitation lands, the capture plan already knows what you said last time.
Tuesday, 2:14pm. You're in a meeting. The workspace is working.
An amendment drops on a recompete you chased two years ago. It posts to SAM.gov at 2:14. By the time you're back at your desk, Intel has scored it against your own pursuit history, Capture has surfaced go, caution, or pass signals, and your Section L outline is already started. You didn't miss it. You just weren't the one watching.
While you sleep, five agents work your pipeline.
The connective work between every BD surface — handled automatically.
Intel
You never miss a notice that fits your firm.
Scans SAM.gov, USAspending, and agency forecasts 24/7. Scores every new notice against your fit profile. Populates your Pipeline automatically with the ones worth a look.
Capture
You walk into review with a capture read.
Reads the solicitation the moment it's added. Prepares a capture read, surfaces incumbent threats, and writes three win-theme starters inside your Capture plan.
Relationship
You know which partner is worth a call this week.
Tracks incumbents, teaming partners, and agency contacts across USAspending, protest filings, and recent awards. Updates your Threat Ledger and flags partners worth a call this week.
BD
You open one tab and know where the day stands.
Assembles a single Command Brief from everything that moved across all four surfaces overnight. Decisions you need to make today, on one page.
Proposal
Your response is structured to L and M before you write.
When it's time to write, pulls win themes, past performance, and capture notes into a structured outline mapped to the solicitation's L and M sections.
Each agent crosses surfaces. That is what makes one workspace.
Built for the firm where one person is the entire BD function.
If your BD lead is also your capture manager and your proposal coordinator, you don't need five tools. You need one workspace and five agents doing the work between them.
You're an SDVOSB or small federal contractor with 2–50 employees
You're pursuing prime or sub work across DoD, VA, DHA, HHS, DHS, or civilian agencies
Your BD process is a spreadsheet, a SharePoint folder, and the contents of one person's head
You can't afford a $25K GovWin seat and a $12K Salesforce contract
You want to compete on systems, not headcount
You're a top-10 federal prime with a dedicated BD organization
You only pursue 1–2 vehicles per year
You're not actively chasing federal work
You want a CRM with everything else bolted on (we're the opposite)
Your first Command Brief configured during onboarding.
We look at your last 5 pursuits together. If Lex Civis isn't the right fit, I'll tell you in the call.
We provision your tenant, configure your fit profile (NAICS, set-asides, agency targets, ceiling), and start backfilling the last 90 days of relevant SAM.gov activity.
Drop in your existing pipeline (CSV, Excel, or a screenshot of the whiteboard, we've seen it all). Pursuits get scored automatically.
Your principal gets a Daily Command Brief configured to the firm's operating rhythm. By the end of the week it should be the first thing they open.
The Capture Agent has read your top pursuits and prepared capture reads with win-theme starters. You review, edit, ship.
Workspace is the tool YOU use to chase federal work, not a cloud service the government consumes. v1 ships on commercial cloud with explicit CUI handling + contractor-side DFARS disclosure. GovCloud edition lands at Series A close.
I'm not a SaaS founder who discovered GovCon. I'm an SDVOSB founder who got tired of watching small firms lose to the language of federal contracting.
FAR, DFARS, Section L and M: a dialect that takes years to learn and a prime's whole department to keep current. Lex Civis is the capture team a small firm could not hire: disciplined, always on, and built for firms our size.