u/DamagedGoods13

FedFusion has been a pet project of mine for nearly 9 months and it's about ready for launch. So I wanted to present it here and get some feedback. I honestly have no idea if it is necessary in the market, redundant, or just a dumb idea. But It was an idea I had that kept growing in my head so I wanted to see where it took me.

I have worked a lot with small businesses who struggle to pay for expensive intel platforms, hire authors, and find teammates beyond their existing networks to help them win props. So this is my idea on how to help.

What is FedFusion?

FF is an innovative platform designed specifically to help small and medium sized CovCons bid on opportunities more efficiently and more effectively, allowing them a competitive advantage to increase their Pw through teaming, data management, and content generation. In a nutshell, it:

1. Parses SS/RFIs/RFPs into categorized requirements
2. Allows businesses to upload various kinds of documents that demonstrate past performance, capabilities, experience, etc..
3. Performs a gap analysis on the RFP against the company's past performance
4. Highlights partial coverage and gaps and can suggest industry teaming partners to achieve full compliance
5. Generates content by requirement based on weighted, scored, and gated evidence while maintaining guardrails on fabricated content.
6. Provides basic editing, collaboration, and export functionality
7. And will soon have document scoring against Section M

What FedFusion Isn't:

FF is not a pipeline management tool. It is not a pure BD tool. There are too many other big dogs out there doing that and doing that well. FedFusion is designed to begin once a solicitation is live and end when the proposal is submitted.

What Makes FedFusion Unique?

I tried to build FF scientifically and not emotionally. Meaning, I took a data first approach to try and help businesses break out of their norms and get over many of the frustrating aspects of proposal work.

For example, the source data conundrum is probably a familiar one. We have a bunch of data in Sharepoint or in folders. It may seem relevant, it may seem unrelated, or may seem to not be in a format that makes it even worth considering. To solve this, FF uses logic to break all of your source data into evidence (capabilities, skills, experiences, etc...) and stores them in a Vector Database. Upload anything and everything (non-CUI of course); quality plans, status reports, old proposals, cape statements, management plans, performance reports. FedFusion then breaks these documents down in to evidence backed capabilities and stores them. The more you add, the stronger your evidence locker becomes.

Then when it is time to respond to requirements, retrieval is not "find documents that mention this keyword" but "find the evidence that is actually about this requirement," which is what lets FedFusion answer a question no keyword system can: what do we have that speaks to this, and how strongly?

When a solicitation comes in, each requirement is matched against your capability evidence, and the similarity score becomes a first-class object. That same gap list is then the query for teaming: instead of searching for partners by NAICS code and hoping, FedFusion searches the evidence corpus of every other company in the system against your specific unfilled requirements, returns the ones whose demonstrated work closes those gaps, records which requirement each partner fills and at what similarity, and filters the result through set-aside eligibility so what you get back is a defensible teaming rationale rather than a directory listing.

And it uses this very same evidence-backed approach to generate your RFP response content. FF won't say "we've done this, we've done that". It will say "We have done this successfully here, this is how we did it, and these were the results". And if there's no evidence? FF won't lie. It will identify the gap and will not fabricate a response.

How Well Does It Work?

I'm biased :) I think it's really good. But I've made example data available on the public page for download so anyone can look and compare. Not only did I include the first draft output of a test solicitation, but I've also included the Solicitation Docs and the Source Documentation for a fake company I created to test the system. So you can take all of the same data, plug it into whatever tool or flow you currently use, and compare the output.

I know I've typed a lot so I'll shut up now! But I'm curious to hear opinions. Don't beat me up too bad... as much as I know this is a long shot to be successful, I do have a lot of love and time invested in it.

https://fedfusion.ai <- Check it out? Maybe? 😄

Note: I know there is sensitivity to vibe coded apps, so I will start with: This is not a vibe coded platform. I am an engineer with over 15 years in GovCon and extensive software & IT Security experience. FedFusion is properly architected and secured using as many industry best practices as possible. Did I use CodeGen to get there? Yes, but then again you wouldn't build a house without power tools. At least I wouldn't :)

A friend suggested this spot for plane spotting and I was thoroughly impressed with the view. I took some stills and a really cool timelapse (which I'm happy to post if anyone is interested), but it was the Light Paining mode of the GoPro that I was most impressed with. I actually didn't even know this was a mode until I started fiddling with the time-lapse / night-lapse stuff.

I only have the free version of Davinici so I can't apply the lens correction filter, but other than a small crop, there's no edits on this. I thought it was cool. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did taking it!

Long story short: can't get the brake bad warning to shut off. Car has Hawk pads, so the sensors are connected and tied up, but not touching the pads. 2006 330i Sedan.

So far, I have:

• Checked the sensors
• Cut the ends and soldered the sensor wires together
• Replaced both sensors

So clearly the issue is elsewhere. My question to the group is, where should I look? Is there another common failure point? PFV...

Well, sorta... I just picked up my dream non-track car (E90 M3 DCT) and it stopped raining here long enough to snap a pic. I didn't mean for this to happen, but I guess when you like something, you like something. There are worse passions to have other than Alpine White M3's :)

The E36 is almost track ready again, so I'll post more of that in the coming months. Once it gets some shakedown, I actually have a 7-speed DCT for that car also. But one step at a time.

I've had a bunch of E90's. But I've never had one with a "tire" button. Is it just a different icon for the DTC or does it actually have a different function?

And yes, I pushed it momentarily and held it in, but I didn't see any indicator lights. Sorry to be "that guy" today.

not mine, but i def lol'd