Defense Tech Base

AI skills for defense founders

Free instructions and downloadable skills for opportunity decisions, proposals, buyer research, customer meetings, capability statements and teaming. Use them in your own AI assistant.

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Choose a task, copy the instructions and add your company information or source documents. Each skill includes a fictional example and asks the assistant to identify missing information.

Opportunity fit and bid decision

Compare an opportunity’s requirements with your company’s capabilities before deciding whether to respond.

Inputs: Notice, amendments and company capabilities

Output: Requirements table and decision brief

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Government buyer research

Use past awards to identify potential buyers and questions for your first conversation.

Inputs: Product facts and public award records

Output: Cited shortlist with hypotheses and next actions

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Capability statement builder

Draft a buyer-specific one-page statement from verified company facts.

Inputs: Buyer problem, capabilities and performance evidence

Output: One-page draft and separate completion checklist

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Proposal requirements matrix

Turn a solicitation and amendments into a cited requirements matrix and submission checklist.

Inputs: Solicitation, attachments, amendments and team roles

Output: CSV-ready matrix, coverage gaps and amendment change log

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Government customer meeting prep

Prepare a customer-discovery agenda, evidence-backed introduction and unsent follow-up template.

Inputs: Meeting purpose, buyer context and demonstrated product facts

Output: Meeting brief, discovery questions and next-step options

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Teaming partner shortlist

Match work-package gaps to public partner evidence and identify what still needs diligence.

Inputs: Work scope, company gaps and candidate profiles

Output: Role-based shortlist, source evidence and diligence questions

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Which skill should you use?

Use opportunity fit when deciding whether to respond to a notice, buyer research when exploring a customer, and the capability statement builder when preparing your introduction. Use the proposal matrix to organize a response, meeting prep to plan discovery, and teaming research to investigate capability gaps. Each includes a fictional example and a downloadable folder.

Use pasted records when browsing is unavailable. These skills do not require a connection to Defense Tech Base’s data feeds. Review the source documents and missing facts before using an output in a bid or customer conversation.

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