What COTR.ai Does
COTR.ai provides decision intelligence for defense acquisition.
Two engines work together:
AlignIQ scores the structural alignment between a company and an opportunity across three dimensions — capability fit, institutional friction, and execution viability — and produces a clear Bid or No-Bid recommendation before a dollar of proposal effort is spent.
TeamIQ evaluates teaming partners for set-aside contracts, scoring small businesses across eight weighted factors to surface the right partners before you commit to a team.
Who it Helps
Startups
AlignIQ tells you whether you have the clearance posture, compliance standing, and institutional relationships to win a defense contract — before you spend a dollar of proposal effort finding out the hard way.
Investors
Evaluate whether portfolio companies are structurally positioned to transition into real defense programs.
Small Businesses
TeamIQ matches you with the right teaming partners for set-aside contracts — scored on past performance, NAICS alignment, clearance level, and geographic proximity — so you stop guessing who to team with and start winning.
The Methodology
AlignIQ scores companies across three multi-faceted dimensions: Structural Fit, Institutional Friction, and Execution Viability. The output is a 0–100 alignment score, clear Bid or No-Bid recommendation and a recommended remediation path.
TeamIQ scores teaming partners across eight weighted factors — set-aside eligibility, NAICS alignment, past performance, geographic proximity, and more — producing a 0–100 composite match score and a Pursue, Evaluate, Monitor, or Pass recommendation.
The Vision
COTR.ai is building the decision intelligence layer between commercial innovation and defense procurement.
Not proposal software.
Not a searchable opportunity database.
Defense Acquisition Decision Intelligence Infrastructure.
Current Status
Founding cohort is filling up. Founding partners receive free 30-day Scout access in exchange for intake data and candid feedback. Applications close when the cohort is full.