Built because the paperwork is what stops people.
Federal agencies awarded around $179 billion to small businesses in FY2025 and still missed their women-owned and HUBZone goals — the HUBZone goal for the sixth year running. The money is sitting there. What is missing is certified firms who made it through the process.
Why we exist
The gap is not competition. It's the on-ramp.
Every conversation with a veteran or minority business owner about federal work goes the same way. They know the set-asides exist. They have heard of 8(a). Somebody told them to get "MBE certified." Then they open SAM.gov, hit entity validation, and the whole thing dies on a Tuesday afternoon.
Meanwhile the tools built for this market start at $13,000 a year and the market leader's own reviewers call it prohibitive for small companies. So the firms who most need help are the ones who cannot buy any.
We think the answer is unglamorous: walk people through it, generate the documents, and never let a renewal date surprise them. Then give them the search and proposal tooling too, at a price a company with no contracts yet can actually pay.
What we will always tell you
- SAM.gov registration is free. So is every SBA certification.
- If your local APEX Accelerator covers what you need, use them — there are 95 and they cost nothing.
- We cannot submit to SBA for you. Nobody legitimate can.
- We will do everything in our power to get your application right. What we will not do is promise you an approval — SBA makes that call, and anyone guaranteeing an 8(a) is selling you something.
- There is no federal MBE certification, whatever you were told.
- If you do not qualify for something, we will say so rather than sell you a plan.
The market, in three numbers
FY2025 federal small-business contracting
SBA FY2025 Small Business Procurement Scorecard, released 25 June 2026. Note that every socioeconomic category fell in both dollars and percentage against FY2024, and the headline percentage is measured against an addressable-market denominator rather than total federal spend.
Get in touch
Talk to a person.
During the beta there is no support queue — you get one of us. Ask about eligibility, ask what we have not built yet, or tell us the thing that nearly made you give up on federal work.
Direct
beta@gcwiz.com — beta access and eligibility questions
info@gcwiz.com — everything else