How AURA works.
For technical buyers and capture leaders who want to know what's under the hood. AURA — the Adaptive Unified Response and Acquisition Engine — is a compound system: specialized components for retrieval, deterministic funding math, a transparent scoring rubric, and fenced LLM reasoning, composed into a pipeline you can trust and audit.
Built for trust, not theater.
Deterministic-first
Funding figures, scores, and balances are computed in code. The LLM explains and recommends — it never invents a number.
LLM fenced
Reasoning runs behind structured outputs and guardrails. Every claim must cite a source; ungrounded generation is rejected.
Eval-gated
Nothing ships without passing offline evals. Calibration, grounding, and guardrail-fire rates are tracked online — quality is engineering, not marketing.
Deterministic scores. Grounded recommendations. Full audit trail.
The decision layer composes bounded, testable components — not a single prompt.
Deterministic Pursuit Score
Win-probability computed from capability fit, competition, past performance, and set-aside eligibility — a transparent rubric that calibrates as real outcomes accrue, then monitored for drift.
Grounded Budget Runway
Remaining unobligated balance joined from appropriations and execution data — never guessed. Every figure traces to USAspending, OMB apportionments, and related public sources.
Evidence-backed Bid Advisor
Verdicts cite computed signals and solicitation text. Ungrounded claims don't ship; humans own the final bid decision.
Workflows, not hype.
AURA agents orchestrate skills into jobs your capture team needs — search, score, recommend, alert. Most are deterministic workflows: fixed pipelines that are predictable, testable, and cheap. Each agent has a typed job, a fixed skill chain, and eval gates before deploy.
Skills are bounded, typed, versioned units of work with input/output schemas, determinism flags, guardrails, and their own eval sets. Swap a data source or refine a scorer without rewriting the agent.
MVP skills include search, capability match, solicitation parse, funding fetch, budget runway compute, pursuit scoring, risk assessment, and bid recommendation.
illustrative · agent output · Pursuit Decision · all numbers traced to computed sources
Discover → Assess → Decide → Build → Monitor
AURA runs the full GovCon capture lifecycle. Our wedge is the decision loop — everything else supports whether to commit.
Search, capability match, light scoring — rank opportunities, never act.
Solicitation understanding, runway, calibrated Pursuit Score.
Bid Advisor verdict with evidence. You decide to bid.
Briefs, compliance matrices, win themes — cited and editable.
Funding signals, market changes, runway-aware alerts.
Put the methodology to the test.
Bring a pursuit you already understand and check our figures against what you know.