AI consulting and federal growth
Ixota is an AI consulting and government contracting firm. We help contractors qualify, shape, and win the pursuits that matter, and we help contractors and agencies put AI into real work.
One model proposes which documents and live data sources can answer it. A second challenges that plan before anything runs.
Every passage is scored, duplicates are dropped, and long passages are trimmed to the sentences that answer the question, inside a fixed token budget.
XCP answers only from those sources and cites every claim. It saves a full record of how each answer was produced.
A live run on a fictional RFP and contractor. XCP checks four contracts against the solicitation’s rules, cites every claim, and links each citation to its source.
Capture discipline from two decades of federal pursuits, and AI that earns its place in the work.
Capture planning and pipeline discipline sized to your company, whether you run three pursuits a year or three hundred. We adapt a proven capture process to your team instead of handing you a binder.
Pipeline qualification and bid/no-bid gates, capture plans, customer and competitor assessments, price-to-win, and capture training.
A pursuit system built around what the customer actually values, not just what the RFP asks for. The team works in short sprints with frequent reviews, so the solution and the story sharpen together instead of colliding at Red team.
We deliver it, train your team to run it, and provide the tools and templates, all right-sized to your organization and budget.
Process design, team training, sprint and review cadences, templates and tools, and coaching on live pursuits.
Proposal management and writing support from kickoff to submission, with color team reviews run the way evaluators actually read.
Compliance matrices, outlines and storyboards, color team facilitation, writing and editing, and final production.
Clear use cases, a realistic roadmap, and working systems on XCP: search and retrieval over your own documents, document intelligence, and agent workflows that meet federal security and governance needs.
AI readiness assessments, use-case selection, prototypes, production builds, and team enablement.
Ixota pursues and performs federal work directly, as a prime or a teaming partner, in AI, data, management consulting, R&D, and SETA work.
Prime contracts, and teaming on pursuits where our capabilities fit.
Pipeline and AI diligence for private equity and venture capital investment in the federal market, and growth support after close.
Target screens, pipeline quality reviews, AI capability assessments, and 100-day growth plans.
Ixota helps private equity and venture investors back the right AI companies in the federal market, and grow them after close. Scroll to move a deal through its lifecycle.
Stage 1
Where federal AI money is going
Federal AI spending is real but uneven, spread across agencies, vehicles, and programs that are hard to read from outside.
Market maps of where agencies are actually buying AI, which contract vehicles carry the work, and which segments fit your thesis.
Stage 2
Finding companies worth a look
Plenty of targets claim federal traction. Far fewer have the vehicles, past performance, and agency relationships to grow it.
Target screens that check vehicle access, award history, and customer relationships before your team spends time on a deal.
Stage 3
Is the pipeline real?
Pipeline figures in a CIM are hard to verify, and recompete risk can hide inside backlog.
A pursuit-by-pursuit review of qualification, win-rate realism, recompete exposure, and capture maturity, delivered on your deal timeline.
Stage 4
Is the AI real?
AI claims are easy to make and hard to test: thin wrappers, model dependency, and unclear paths into federal environments.
A hands-on assessment of the technology, its defensibility, its cost to serve, and what it takes to deploy for federal customers.
Stage 5
Installing the growth engine
Many acquired contractors run business development on heroics, without consistent qualification, reviews, or capture discipline.
A capture process sized to the company, AI-enabled proposal workflows, and a qualified pipeline in place within the first 100 days.
Stage 6
Proving the growth story
At exit, the next buyer will run the same diligence on the pipeline and the AI.
A pipeline and capture record that holds up to buyer scrutiny, backed by win rates and a process the next owner can trust.
Work with us
An insider’s read, on your timeline
Bring us the target and your questions. We review its pipeline, award history, and AI claims, and deliver findings your investment committee can check against the sources.
Tell us about the deal. Every engagement starts with a conflicts check, and conversations stay confidential.
Start a diligence conversationIxota was founded by Jake Gonzalez, a federal growth leader with more than 20 years across aerospace, defense, and federal civilian markets. He has directed a large proposal organization, managed multi-billion dollar captures, managed technology infusion and solution architecture for large bids, and led capture excellence enterprisewide across a large federal contractor. Ixota brings that discipline, and AI that holds up in real work, to the companies that need both.
Growing companies that need a real capture process without building a large BD department to run it.
Business units that want a fresh look at how they qualify, review, and win, or extra capacity on must-win bids.
Program offices that want practical AI delivered by a team that understands federal acquisition from the inside.
Whether it’s a must-win recompete, an AI deal in diligence, or an AI program that has to work the first time, start here.
Prefer email? jake@ixota.ai, or call 850.549.8449.
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