We used to stitch our compliance matrices together with outside tools that never really understood Tigerbrain. Having it built into the platform, working from our own library, streamlines the whole process on another level.
Overview
Tigerbrain Engineering is a ~45-person architecture-engineering and construction-services firm in Oviedo, Florida, specializing in airfield and heavy-pavement design. Their niche is precise: they live inside the construction process (design, engineering, and construction inspection and oversight) without self-performing the physical build. That precision is both their edge and their capture headache. Their work sits adjacent to construction, so off-the-shelf keyword and NAICS filters either bury them in construction RFPs they can't prime or miss the airfield work that's squarely theirs. And the whole capture-to-proposal motion runs on a lean BD-and-marketing crew, not a dedicated proposal shop.
GovSignals modules: Capture (Signals) and Proposals.
Verticals pursued: Federal A-E, including airfields, pavement, and construction inspection and oversight, expanding toward SLED in Florida.
Client since: January 2026.
The challenge
Before GovSignals, sourcing meant NAICS and keyword searches across SAM.gov and other portals, with everything tracked in master spreadsheets. Compliance matrices were built by hand, highlighting solicitations line by line, or stitched together with general-purpose tools that, as the team put it, "did not understand Tigerbrain as well as we do."
In their words
“We sit in an odd space: some construction-adjacent work is exactly what we want, some isn't. Being able to teach the system which is which, and watch what surfaces get sharper, is what makes it fit us.”
The shift
Tigerbrain deployed GovSignals' Capture and Proposals modules and, critically, had them tuned to how the firm actually wins work.
Capture tuned to a niche
Semantic scans across SAM.gov and HireGov supplement, rather than replace, their keyword rules, surfacing airfield and A-E work their old filters missed. A match-feedback loop with their GovSignals deployment strategist continuously reclassifies construction-adjacent opportunities so fit scores match reality.
One list for the whole team
Saved searches with team visibility and daily notifications replaced the master spreadsheet, so BD and marketing work from a single shared view instead of duplicating each other's sourcing.
From highlighter to the “shred”
The solicitation reader and requirement “shred” auto-generate a compliance matrix, pulling 400+ requirements from a single solicitation and replacing hours of manual highlighting.
Proposal content with context
The Assistant and Playbooks draft win themes, SF330 response outlines, and a compliance-evaluation check (with strengths, weaknesses, and competitive ranking) grounded in Tigerbrain's own past-performance library rather than a generic model.
Results
Seven months in, Tigerbrain has replaced a patchwork of spreadsheets, keyword searches, and manual compliance matrices with one capture-to-proposal workflow tuned to their niche:
- A single solicitation's 400+ requirements auto-extracted into a working compliance matrix, replacing manual highlighting.
- Semantic scans surfacing airfield and A-E opportunities across SAM.gov and HireGov beyond their keyword rules.
- Capture strategy continuously re-tuned to their construction-adjacent niche via match feedback, cutting fit-score noise.
- The whole BD and marketing team working from one shared opportunity list, ending duplicated sourcing effort.
- Win themes and SF330 response outlines drafted from their own library.
The gains here are about workflow and reach, not a headcount cut. A lean team now covers ground that used to require a dedicated proposal team.
The workflow in action
“Now the whole team is looking at the same opportunities at the same time: we're not duplicating each other's effort anymore.”
Strategic impact
For a 45-person firm, the leverage isn't replacing people. It's competing with the capture-to-proposal discipline of a much larger BD shop without adding any. One marketing coordinator and a small BD crew can now scan the entire federal landscape, run go/no-go with a full compliance picture already in hand, and draft SF330 responses from their own library. As the market shifts toward combined design-and-construction procurements that require teaming, a capture net tuned to their niche helps them quickly tell which of those are worth pursuing as a partner or sub.
The GovSignals experience
Much of the value has come through their deployment strategist, Brittany Dubois. When the team flags a mis-ranked opportunity, she personally reconfigures their capture strategy from that feedback rather than handing them a setting to fiddle with. She tuned the fit instructions to their construction-adjacent niche so the platform reflects the work they actually pursue.
Looking ahead
Tigerbrain is widening its aperture as federal work trends toward combined design-and-construction awards that lean on teaming, using its tuned capture net to spot the right partnering plays. A move into state and local pursuits in Florida opens up work close to home, and the team is leaning further into Playbooks for compliance checks, executive summaries, and competitive analysis.
Additional quote
“It learns from our feedback: every correction narrows the capture strategy to what we actually pursue.”