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AI Is Grading Your Next Proposal

Federal SSEBs are now using LLMs to draft evaluation narratives in 2026. If your next proposal isn't built for machine-readable strengths, your strengths never reach a human.

Date
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Time
11:00 AM ET · 60 min
Format
Zoom · Live Q&A
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14 of 50 seats claimed · No recording · Chatham House Rules

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The Sub-$20M Capture Math Just Inverted.

The Unfiltered Executive Playbook

Three tactical moves we'll walk through on May 28, each built from what's actually working across TNA's $1.4B+ client book.

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The SSEB Now Reads Like an LLM

Federal SSEBs are using LLMs to draft evaluation narratives. Your strengths language and Section L compliance matrix have to be machine-extractable before they reach a human KO.

The fix: restructure every strength into the three-element form (specific feature, beneficial outcome, verifiable proof point). Push critical content into text, not graphics or merged-cell tables. Add an AI-audit pass to your Pink Team checklist, before Red Team. The Shipley 30/60/90 cadence does not change. The compliance matrix does.

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Black Hat at Machine Speed

A repeatable AI-augmented incumbent intel workflow built on FPDS, USAspending, SAM, and CPARS public data produces Black Hat-grade competitor profiles on every pursuit above your Win Score threshold, not just the top one or two.

The cost moves from per-pursuit to per-month. The coverage moves from selective to total. We'll show you the HELIX-driven prompt set we run weekly across every pursuit with a PWin above bid/no-bid threshold, and how to feed the output into your gate review packet.

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The Five-Tool Stack Beats the Twenty-Five-Tool Stack

SBE Council's 2026 Tech Use Survey: 82% of small business employers have invested in AI tools, with the typical firm running a median of 5. The firms getting real ROI run focused stacks mapped to specific gate review functions.

Tool sprawl creates compliance, CUI, and DFARS 7012 exposure without moving win rate. We'll walk a one-page mapping exercise: which tools to keep, which to cut, and which gates are still uncovered. Lock NIST 800-171 handling rules before any tool touches a live solicitation.

TNA
[OPERATOR: insert speaker name]
Managing Director · Top Notch Acquisitions
Leads TNA's 17-person US-based team serving sub-$20M federal contractors. $1.4B+ in client contracts awarded across IT, professional services, AEC, and R&D. 37 prime and sub awards captured in Q4 2025 alone. Has run capture on every vehicle class from GSA MAS to OASIS+ to SEWP.
$1.4B+
Client Contracts Awarded
37
Q4 2025 Prime/Sub Wins
17
US-Based Team
10 Mo
Performance Guarantee
"From low-single-digit win rate to mid-teens in seven months, on top of an existing pipeline. The shift was structural, not lucky. They rebuilt how we run capture from gate review backward."
14-person sub-$20M federal contractor · Composite client profile (Sentinel Group)

Questions

No recording. The briefing runs Chatham House Rules, which means nothing leaves the room. If you can't make the live session, register anyway. Within 48 hours after the webinar, registrants get a written summary of the three Secrets and the case study pattern. The detailed playbook walkthrough only happens in the live room.
Owner-operators, presidents, and BD/capture leads at sub-$20M federal contracting firms. The content is calibrated for firms with active prime or subprime pursuits, an existing capture function (even if informal), and certifications such as 8(a), HUBZone, WOSB, or SDVOSB. Pre-revenue or pre-pursuit firms will find it too tactical.
Chatham House Rules. Information shared in the briefing can be used by attendees, but the source (the speaker, other attendees, specific firms named) cannot be repeated outside the room. No recording is made. Slides are not distributed. This lets us share specific tactical detail and named client patterns we wouldn't share in a public webinar.
At minute 38 of 60, two to three minutes on how TNA works for firms that want to explore. Two specific paths: a free Pipeline Assessment, and a $5,000 flat-fee Contract Vehicle Service. No retainer pitch in the live session. Content is 42 of 60 minutes. Zero obligation either way.
Still welcome, and the AI capture playbook applies. Above roughly $50M in federal revenue, the content typically reads as too tactical because larger firms already have most of these capture cadences in place. Honest assessment: if you're over $50M, the next briefing in this series (June 11, IT recompetes) is more likely to fit.
Come with one live pursuit in mind. The Win Score, incumbent intel, Section L AI-audit, and tool-mapping moves we walk through are easier to apply when you have a real solicitation or sources sought open in another tab. Block the full 60 minutes if you can; the live Q&A in the last 15 minutes is often where the highest-leverage tactical detail surfaces.
None. The briefing is tool-agnostic. We walk through what works at the workflow level (incumbent intel, Section L AI-audit, gate review augmentation) and which categories of tools fit which gates. Specific tool recommendations come up in the Pipeline Assessment or follow-up conversations, not in the live room.

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