It started with a pink slip.
In 2025, like thousands of others, I was laid off. One day you have a career, a team, a routine. The next day you have a LinkedIn notification and a severance package. The tech industry was shedding jobs, and I was part of the cut.
During the weeks that followed, I did what everyone does — updated the resume, sent applications, networked. But something kept nagging me. I kept hearing about government contracts. Billions of dollars in federal work, posted publicly, available to small businesses and independent contractors. Work that actually matters — building infrastructure, providing services to veterans, modernizing government systems.
So I went to SAM.gov. And I hit a wall.
The system wasn't built for people like us.
Government contracting portals were designed for procurement officers, not for a landscaper in Dallas wondering if she can mow a federal building's lawn. Not for a freelance developer looking for IT work. Not for a cleaning company owner who doesn't know what a NAICS code is.
The information is public. The opportunities are real. But the barrier to entry is knowledge — knowing where to look, what to search for, how to decode the jargon, and how to actually respond to a solicitation. That barrier keeps billions of dollars of government work locked away from the people who could do it best.
I thought: what if you could just say what you do, and the right contracts found you?
That's why Kontrakk exists.
Kontrakk takes the complexity out of government contracting. You describe your work in plain language — “I build websites” or “I do janitorial services” — and our AI finds the contracts that match. No NAICS codes to memorize. No 47-page solicitation documents to parse. No acronyms to decode.
We pull data directly from SAM.gov and Grants.gov, the same databases the government uses. We analyze every contract with AI to surface what's relevant to you. And we help you respond — generating proposal emails, showing you deadlines, connecting you with the right contacts.
This isn't a tool for defense contractors with lobbyists. This is for the small business owner, the independent contractor, the person who got laid off and is looking for their next opportunity. The government spends over $700 billion a year on contracts. Some of that work has your name on it.
Built with purpose.
Kontrakk is self-hosted, privacy-first, and designed to be fast. We don't sell your data. We don't track you with ad pixels. We don't charge you to see public information that the government already makes available.
Our mission is simple: make government contracting accessible to everyone. Not just the companies that already know the system, but the ones who never knew the door was open.
If you've been laid off, if you're starting a business, if you're looking for work that matters — you're who we built this for.