CLEATUS
Agentic AI platform that finds, bids, and wins government contracts for GovCon teams
By CLEATUS · HQ Washington, D.C., US · 4.0/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Small businesses and emerging primes competing for federal, state, local, and education contracts
- GovCon capture and proposal teams that want less manual discovery and drafting work
- Teams already working in Claude, ChatGPT, Google Drive, SharePoint, Slack, or Microsoft 365
- Consultants and APEX Accelerators supporting multiple government contractor clients
- Developers and partners building custom apps on the CLEATUS REST API and MCP server
Ideal size: 1-500 people · Solo contractors through emerging primes with an active capture process
Not for
- Commercial-only businesses with no interest in US government contracting
- Organizations that require on-premises hosting or single-country data residency
- Buyers seeking a standalone CRM or ERP rather than a GovCon capture layer
- Teams that only need raw opportunity data with no AI drafting or workflow automation
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
About 1 week (7-day free trial)
~7 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$4,680/yr
Starts at $468 · Per user, per month billed annually: DATA $39, DATA + AI $78; DATA + AI + Automations and GovCloud are custom annual plans
Implementation Friction
2/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Every paid plan includes 1 seat; each extra seat is billed at the plan rate. DATA + AI scales to 5 seats, Automations is unlimited
Add-on costs
- Extra user seats billed at the same per-user plan rate
Company & support
Who is behind CLEATUS, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Headquarters
- Washington, D.C., US
How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailAll plans
- Live chatAll plans
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsAll plans
- Dedicated account managerEnterprise only
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- 24/7
- Response time
- Under 24 hours (published as "< 24hrs")
Live chat and email support are stated as included on every plan, plus a help center and access to GovCon experts. A dedicated GovCon account executive is included on DATA + AI + Automations and above.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where CLEATUS sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line. A dashed ring marks an outlier pinned to the edge; hover for its value.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- CLEATUS
- Proposify
- Avoma
- Teamwork.com
- Capsule CRM
- Nutshell
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including CLEATUS. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
Ships an official MCP server. Connects to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT connectors and Cursor out of the box.
AI & MCP readiness
What CLEATUS ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
The GovCon Copilot answers solicitation questions with cited sources, and agents run discovery, compliance scoring, and clause-aligned proposal drafting from the Document Hub. MCP connectors and the REST API expose the same tools to Claude and ChatGPT with confirm-before-change guardrails and audit logging. Outputs are positioned as recommendations for human review.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Never trains on your data
- Runs on
- OpenAI, Open-weight models
- AI pricing
- Included in the plan
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Official MCP server
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Full audit trail
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
CLEATUS is an agentic AI platform for government contracting. It watches SAM.gov, 50,000+ SLED sources, DLA DIBBS, and Grants.gov, scores opportunity fit and compliance, drafts clause-aligned proposals from your own Document Hub, and runs the bid pipeline. Official MCP connectors put it inside Claude and ChatGPT, and a REST API supports custom builds. Paid plans start at $39 per user per month billed annually, with a 7-day free trial.
Frequently asked questions
How much does CLEATUS cost?
Published annual pricing is $39 per user per month for DATA and $78 per user per month for DATA + AI, both billed annually (roughly $468 and $936 per seat per year). Every paid plan includes one seat and each additional seat is billed at the plan rate, with DATA + AI scaling to five seats. DATA + AI + Automations and the AWS GovCloud plan are custom, contact-us pricing. All plans start with a 7-day free trial.
How long until a team gets value from CLEATUS?
CLEATUS is self-serve. The published path is a 7-day free trial followed by an upgrade, and a vendor case study describes signup to first federal award in 10 days. Higher tiers include a dedicated GovCon account executive who configures the company profile, trains the AI on your capabilities and past performance, sets up the Document Hub, and walks the team through its first bid. Google Drive or SharePoint imports take a few clicks, and the GSA eBuy connection is described as about five minutes.
Is our proposal and pipeline data used to train AI models?
No. CLEATUS states on its security page that it never uses your proprietary information to train AI models, and its privacy page says neither CLEATUS nor its AI partners use your content to train theirs. Data is encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.2+ in transit, access is role-based, and audit logs are filterable and exportable to CSV. On cancellation, data is permanently deleted within 30 days.
Can we use CLEATUS from Claude, ChatGPT, and our other tools?
Yes. CLEATUS ships official MCP connectors listed in the Claude.ai and ChatGPT directories, exposing 33-34 read and write tools with OAuth 2.1 sign-in, confirm-before-change approval for any write, and a full audit log. The same endpoints are available as a REST API at api.cleat.ai with API keys or OAuth tokens and an OpenAPI 3 spec. The Document Hub syncs Google Drive and SharePoint both ways, and Zapier links CLEATUS to Slack, Teams, Outlook, and CRMs such as Salesforce and HubSpot.
What compliance certifications does CLEATUS hold?
Its public security page documents AES-256 encryption, TLS 1.2+, role-based access control, continuous monitoring, third-party penetration testing, a 30-day deletion policy, and an optional separate AWS GovCloud environment. It does not publish SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or FedRAMP certifications; the pricing page references a 'FedRAMP GovCloud' plan for compliance-bound teams. Buyers with formal ATO or CMMC obligations should request controls, policies, and the compliance roadmap directly.
Which contract vehicles and portals does CLEATUS cover?
Discovery spans SAM.gov federal contracts, 50,000+ state, local, and education sources, DLA DIBBS, and Grants.gov, plus SBIR/STTR data. Contract-vehicle integrations pull GSA eBuy RFQs across MAS and GWACs such as 8(a) STARS III, VETS 2, Alliant 2, and OASIS+, and import Navy SeaPort NxG task orders from the DoD PIEE Solicitation Module. Coverage is focused on the US and Canada.