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.
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 them, benchmarks you against five comparable firms, 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: proof that real buyers will commit before it exists, and a working MVP you can demo and deliver.
You walk away with: A working MVP, three signed letters of intent from real buyers, a product requirements document you own, and a founding-member offer you can use to close the first paying customers.
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.
You walk away with: An operating playbook with scope-creep controls, standardized delivery, and a replication model for taking the offering into additional markets.
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.
Not sure which one fits?
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