Hire HARBOR
You win on hours. Your competitors are starting to win on a methodology.
A packaged methodology makes a firm look like less risk to a contracting officer. HARBOR engagements turn your repeatable delivery work into a productized offering of your own. Each one is a fixed-scope project with a defined deliverable, an end date, and a clear next step. Pick the one that matches where you are.
Not ready to commit to a Sprint yet? Start with a $750 Signal Deep-Dive.
Run the free HARBOR Signal first. At the end you can request the $750 Deep-Dive: a founder-authored read of your federal footprint, with a written answer naming the one thing worth productizing and the three moves that come next. It is by request rather than a checkout, because the answer is written by a person.
Harvest Sprint
You have years of federal delivery behind you and a hunch a productizable asset is buried in it, but no evidence and no clear go or no-go answer.
You walk away with: A findings memo that names your strongest product candidates, scores each one across six dimensions, and ends with a straight answer on whether to act.
Architect Workshop
You know which product candidate you want to pursue, but the design is stuck: the MVP boundary, the pricing model, the CLIN structure, and the target customer are all still open questions.
You walk away with: A product specification you can hand to a developer, a BD team, or an investor, with pricing, sample CLINs, and a 90-day go-to-market plan settled.
Build Pilot
You have a product design and you need two things at once: the best available evidence that real buyers will commit before it exists, and a working MVP you can demo and deliver. This is a 90-day engagement with a defined end, not a standing arrangement.
You walk away with: A working MVP, a product requirements document you own, a founding-member offer you can use to close the first paying customers, and outreach support toward three signed letters of intent by day 90. The three letters are the target the engagement is aimed at, not a guarantee.
Federal Activation Audit
You have vehicles and certifications sitting idle while your revenue concentrates in a single prime relationship, and you need a clear map of what you hold and what activates it.
You walk away with: A federal infrastructure activation plan: a full vehicle and certification audit, named open opportunities, a concentration-risk read, and a 30/60/90-day activation roadmap.
Operate + Replicate
Your productized offering is live, and now it needs to run repeatably and scale beyond the founder without losing its margin or its quality. This is the one phase of the framework that does not end: there is no delivery date after which the offering runs itself.
You walk away with: An operating playbook with scope-creep controls, standardized delivery, and a replication model for taking the offering into additional markets. Where the Build Pilot is a 90-day engagement that ends at its day-90 checkpoint, this is a recurring phase: the work is measured in milestones, and it continues for as long as the offering keeps running and keeps expanding.
Every number here is a floor, not a quote. Final scope depends on firm size, how many contract vehicles you hold, and how much of the work is already productized. We confirm the figure in writing before anything starts.
You cannot call a client of ours. Here is what you can check.
Every engagement is confidential, so we do not publish names, logos or case studies. That is a real limit on your diligence, so here is the substitute: work that is public, and that you can verify without asking us for anything.
- The method is published, in full.
- Shrink-Wrap It sets out the six stages this practice runs on, with the failures named as plainly as the steps. Read it before you buy anything: the book, or the framework if you want the short version.
- The software is in production and answers without asking who you are.
- HARBOR Port is a live hosted gateway to federal data, not a mockup. Its health endpoint and its catalogue are open: /healthz (opens in new tab) and /api/catalog (opens in new tab).
- The diagnostic is free and tells you not to buy.
- HARBOR Signal scores your readiness and, when the answer is "not yet", says so. Run it on your own firm before you talk to us: /signal.
- The credentials are stated, and they are checkable.
- A U.S. Marine Corps veteran with roughly a decade in federal technology, registered in SAM.gov (UEI K4CVRY71WQZ8, CAGE 260D0) and certified as a small business. The full background.
- The person who scopes the work delivers it.
- HARBOR is one principal, on purpose. There is no handoff to a manager and then to analysts: the person who answers your first question writes the memo. When an engagement needs more hands than one, named contractors come in under a written agreement you see before they start, so growth is funded by the work that needs it rather than carried as overhead across every engagement. If the principal is unavailable, you hear it within two business days, the schedule is re-based in writing, and nobody you have not met touches the work.
A larger firm can offer you a bench on day one. Ask what you pay for it in the months you do not need it.
The instrument itself is published. One worked example, scored: a composite firm, six weighted dimensions, and a result that clears the 4.0 threshold and still lands on investigate. Every number is on the page, so you can recompute it. Read the worked example, or print the sample memo, which is the deliverable in the shape a Harvest Sprint produces.
If none of that is enough, say so on the contact form and we will tell you honestly whether this is a fit, including when it is not.
HARBOR Advisory
The five engagements above are fixed-scope projects. Advisory is the relationship that comes after. It is a fractional product-strategy retainer for firms that have completed a HARBOR engagement and are now executing. It is not an entry offer, and it is not one of the five.
from $5,000/mo
Not sure which one fits?
Start with HARBOR Signal. It is a free 8-minute diagnostic that scores your firm's readiness and points you at the right engagement.