When the API isn't shaped right for your problem.
Most products at this tier sell you more of the same: more requests, more support, more SLA. We do that too. We also do something they don't.
The kinds of things people come to us with.
We have the data, we know the schemas, and we shape it to your specific need. Email and describe what you're trying to do.
Sometimes it's the shape of the data. A team asks for a Snowflake share, a Parquet drop, a webhook firehose, a mirror Postgres slice, a CSV that lands in their S3 bucket every morning. The data underneath is the same; the pipe is whatever fits your stack.
Sometimes it's joining things. SAM and USAspending and Grants.gov and SBIR aren't keyed the same way; we've spent enough time in the schemas to merge them cleanly. Sub-award lineage, prime-to-sub teaming, agency rollups by NAICS by quarter, the kinds of joins that take a small team a month and us a few days.
Sometimes it's a signal. Vendor Risk has seven baseline signals. If you need an eighth specific to your compliance program (FASCSA exposure, OFAC address-cluster cross-reference, parent-company linkage, first-time-vendor-on-large-award), that's the kind of thing we prototype on a short loop.
Sometimes it's just the operations. The federal data layer breaks. SAM.gov changed schemas twice in 2024. Rate limits shift, multi-key juggling gets old, and most teams would rather not have a data engineer babysitting it. Pay us, don't think about it.
Sometimes it's the historical depth. The multi-decade SAM archive (FY1998–FY2026, ~18 GB of bulk data) sits on our infrastructure but is not in the live API. If you need a one-shot dump, year-over-year extracts, or NAICS-by-quarter rollups for trend work, ask.
None of this is a fixed catalog. The point of the email is that we hear your specific problem and tell you whether we've already done it, can do it quickly, or shouldn't be the ones to do it. All three are useful answers.
What we already hold.
Most of what enterprise buyers need is data we already keep. Some is on the public API by design. Some isn't. Ask about the slices that aren't.
Live API (substantive coverage from October 2025 onwards): contract notices, currently-open notices, awards with winners, full notice descriptions, debarment exclusions, and the full SAM entity registry. SAM.gov's own API truncates descriptions; we don't.
Archived and historical (custom delivery, not in live API): FY1998–FY2026. Roughly 18 GB of bulk data, time-series ready. Available as bulk dumps, year-on-year extracts, NAICS-by-quarter rollups, or agency trend analysis.
Plus full SAM entity profiles, point-of-contact graphs, and modification chains. If you need a slice that isn't in the public docs, the answer is probably "yes, here's how we'd ship it."
Pricing.
Scoped to the actual work, not a fixed catalog.
Engagements typically start around $1,500/mo. Custom builds, slices, and enrichments are quoted on top, depending on the project. The Developer ($19/mo) and Pro ($39/mo) tiers stay as the API ships.
Tell us what you're trying to do.
The mailto pre-fills a few prompts (problem, data shape, volume, deadline). We reply within one business day.