Government contracting data, through one API.
samsearch is open to data and technology partnerships. Search, AI recommendations and proposal generation are available through one API, over the same data and models the platform runs on. We already power the procurement layer inside other GovCon startups and compliance platforms.
AI recommendations, as an endpoint
The capability most partners integrate for.
Your product sends a company profile. samsearch does the rest, continuously.
- Create and update a company profile through the API
- Every source is searched against it, continuously
- Each candidate is qualified with a fit score and the reasoning behind it
- Your product receives ranked, explained opportunities, not a raw result set
This is the part that is genuinely hard to rebuild, and it is what most partnerships are actually for.
Search APIs, lexical and semantic
One query layer over every source we cover, in both modes.
Lexical
- Exact matching on the words in the notice
- NAICS and PSC codes, solicitation numbers, agency names
- Filters, facets and boolean logic
- The right call when the query is an identifier
Semantic
- Matching on meaning rather than keywords
- Describe what a company does, get what fits
- Finds opportunities that share no words with the query
- The right call when the query is a capability
What it spans
Every source we cover, deduplicated across the overlaps, and every record AI-enriched before you receive it.
- Federal
- Contract opportunities
- DLA DIBBS
- GSA eBuy
- PIEE
- Agency forecasts
- Recompetes
- Beyond federal
- State, local, cooperative
- Canadian tenders
- Grants
- SBIR and STTR
- Subcontracting
- Entities and awards
Records do not arrive raw. Every notice is enriched before it reaches you:
- An AI summary of the notice, and of the documents attached to it
- Normalised NAICS, PSC, agency and set-aside classification
- Requirements, deadlines and eligibility signals extracted from the attachments
- Fit scoring and reasoning against any company profile you send
A million government contractors
The entity side of the same API: who the market is, not just what it is buying.
Opportunities are half the picture. The other half is the companies competing for them, and partnership search is queryable through the API the same way every other source is.
On every record
- UEI and CAGE code
- Certifications and set-aside status
- Capability statements
- Contact information
- Past performance and award history
- NAICS codes and location
What partners build with it
- Teaming and subcontractor discovery
- Incumbent and competitor research
- Supplier vetting against real award history
- Market sizing by segment, region or certification
Requirement extraction
Solicitation documents, read and structured.
Attachments are parsed, not just linked. What comes back is structure rather than a PDF URL.
- Requirements pulled out of Section L and M and cited back to the page
- Compliance matrix generated from the solicitation itself
- Deadlines, set-aside status and eligibility signals
- Amendments tracked against the original notice
Proposal generation
From solicitation to first draft, programmatically.
The same response workflow the platform runs, available to your product.
- First-pass volumes drafted against the solicitation and the company's own context
- Structured to the compliance matrix rather than to a generic outline
- Standard forms filled from the profile you already sent
- What you receive is a drafted response, not a prompt result
Dedicated deployment
Every partner runs on their own. There is no shared tier.
Partners are not tenants on a common cluster. Each partnership gets its own deployment, which is why access is scoped and contractual rather than self-serve, and why the conversation starts with volume and security rather than with a signup form.
- Your load, your data and your configuration are isolated
- Capacity sized to your volume rather than to a shared quota
- Data residency and security requirements handled per deployment
- SOC 2 Type II certified; our compliance posture is documented and we expect the review to run in both directions
Who we partner with
Decided by the use case rather than by company size.
GovCon software
Capture, CRM, proposal and compliance products that need procurement data and matching inside their own product. You keep your interface; we run the pipeline behind it.
Consultancies and service providers
Firms running capture, market research or bid support across many clients, who want programmatic access to the same coverage their analysts use.
Research and data teams
Analysts, investors and associations modelling federal and SLED markets, who need normalised award data rather than a dozen exports that do not reconcile.
Resellers and channel partners
Partners taking samsearch into a market or region we do not serve directly, under a commercial agreement rather than a raw feed.
How a partnership starts
Four steps, and the first is a conversation rather than a form field.
Tell us the use case
What you are building, who uses it, and which of search, recommendations, extraction and generation it depends on. That decides everything else, so it is where we start.
What we ask:the product it goes into, the volume and refresh rate you need, and whether the data is shown to your users or processed behind the scenes.
Scope the access
We map the use case onto the sources and endpoints that serve it. Partners get the surface their product needs rather than an undifferentiated firehose.
Agree terms and stand up the deployment
Scope, redistribution rights, and the security and compliance review, which runs in both directions. Your deployment is provisioned as part of this.
Integrate with support
Credentials, reference documentation and a named contact. We would rather spend an hour on your first integration than read about it in a ticket six weeks later.
Questions
What partners ask before the first call.
Does samsearch have an API?
Which sources does the search API cover?
What is the difference between the lexical and semantic search APIs?
Can I get the AI recommendations through the API?
Does the API include the contractor database?
Does the API include proposal generation?
Who already uses it?
Is the API multi-tenant or dedicated?
How is this different from the SAM.gov or USAspending APIs?
Can I resell or redistribute the data?
How much does API access cost?
Tell us what you are building.
Describe the use case and the capabilities it depends on, and we will tell you whether there is a partnership here.