Pursuit decisions that show their work
Pursuit Gate
- Role
- Self-directed. Product direction, experience design, and prototype build.
- Description
- A decision inbox that helps AEC firms decide what deserves attention, why it fits, and what should happen next.
- Audience
- AEC principals, business development leaders, and pursuit teams
- Stage
- Interactive prototype using synthetic opportunity records.
System reframe
The product was not a better list of RFPs.
Aggregation is infrastructure. The question that matters is whether an opportunity deserves attention, what prevents pursuit, and what the team should do next.
The system combines procurement signals with a firm pursuit profile, applies hard gates, and produces an explainable action with evidence and gaps.
- 01Collect signalsPublic notices, forecasts, contracts, and amendments
- 02Read the firmMarkets, credentials, work, people, and preferences
- 03Apply gatesEligibility is resolved before fit
- 04Show evidenceFacts, inferences, and gaps remain distinct
- 05Choose actionPursue, partner, monitor, decline, or investigate
Key product decisions
Three choices move the concept beyond collection volume and generic AI summaries toward accountable pursuit decisions.
- 01
Hard gates before fit
ChoiceEligibility, required experience, credentials, personnel, and response time are checked before a fit recommendation matters.
WhyA high match score is misleading when one mandatory condition makes the opportunity impossible to pursue.
- 02
Recommendations show their work
ChoiceEach action stays connected to source evidence, firm-profile evidence, missing information, and human verification state.
WhyLeadership needs a decision it can challenge, not a percentage that hides assumptions and weak inputs.
- 03
The output is an action
ChoiceThe system recommends pursue as prime, pursue as subconsultant, find a partner, monitor, decline, or request more information.
WhyA ranked feed still leaves the team to translate data into a pursuit decision. That translation is the product value.