SamSearch
The complete AI platform for government contracting, from early intelligence to proposal submission.
By Yeul Payments Inc. (doing business as SamSearch) · 4.5/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Federal primes and subcontractors screening thousands of solicitations a month
- Capture and proposal teams that need fit scoring, compliance matrices and grounded first drafts
- BD leaders tracking recompetes, incumbents and agency buying signals
- Small and mid-size GovCon firms without a large research or proposal staff
- Teams that want a GovCon-native pipeline instead of disconnected search tools
Ideal size: 5–200 people · GovCon firm with an active BD/capture and proposal function
Not for
- Commercial-only companies with no government contracting work
- Programs that require a FedRAMP-authorized system of record
- Teams that need to handle CUI today, since CMMC Level 2 is still in progress
- Buyers who want a published, self-serve price list before a demo
- Anyone looking for a general-purpose CRM or proposal tool for non-government sales
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
Under 1 week to first production value
~7 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
On request
Annual subscription quoted on the demo call: price is set by working seat count and the markets you cover. No published list price and no feature tiers.
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
Charged per working seat (capture, BD and proposal roles); read-only stakeholders who only review the pipeline are not charged
Add-on costs
- Additional market modules, for example SLED, DIBBS, grants or SBIR/STTR, are turned on and bought separately from your starting market
Company & support
Who is behind SamSearch, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
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- Headquarters
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How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailPaid plans
- Live chatPaid plans
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsNot listed
- Dedicated account managerNot listed
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- Not recorded
- Response time
- Not stated
Support is offered by email ([email protected]) and live chat. Every engagement includes onboarding with a dedicated SamSearch expert; enterprise adds priority support.
“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 SamSearch 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.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- SamSearch
- CLEATUS
- Lusha
- Backstory
- Pipedrive
- Navattic
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including SamSearch. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What SamSearch ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
SamSearch agents read solicitation notices and attachments, grade fit against NAICS/PSC codes, set-asides and past performance, extract SOW requirements into cited compliance matrices, and draft proposal volumes and government forms from the customer's approved content. Terms of Service require human review before submission; outputs are informational, not legal advice.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Never trains on your data
- Runs on
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- AI pricing
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In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
SamSearch (operated by Yeul Payments Inc.) is an AI platform for government contracting: it screens federal, SLED, DIBBS, Canadian, SBIR and grant opportunities, scores fit, builds compliance matrices and drafts proposals grounded in the customer's own library, then tracks pursuits in a GovCon-native CRM. It syncs with Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Slack, Teams, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. It is SOC 2 Type II audited, holds CMMC Level 1 and hosts in US regions. Pricing is quote-only.
Frequently asked questions
How is SamSearch priced, and what counts as a seat?
Pricing is annual and based on two things: how many people work in the platform (capture, BD and proposal roles) and which markets you cover. Read-only stakeholders who only review the pipeline are not charged. There are no feature tiers, no per-module upsells an implementation fee, and onboarding, data migration and training are included. You get a quote on a 45-minute demo call against your own live pursuits.
How long does implementation take?
The vendor publishes a one-week onboarding: workspace live on day one with your company profile built and pipeline and saved searches migrated, a team session on day three using your real opportunities to tune criteria, and in production by the end of week one with pursuits running and alerts landing in Slack or Teams. A dedicated SamSearch expert is accountable from kickoff through adoption at no extra cost.
Does SamSearch train AI models on our proposal data?
No. The Privacy Policy and Section 7B of the Terms of Service state that Client Data and Output Data are never used to train SamSearch's models or algorithms, that it is not a setting that can be switched on for a larger plan, and that retrieval is scoped to your workspace so your library grounds only your own drafts. Model processing is stated as having no retention, and your data is never sold.
Is SamSearch CMMC certified or FedRAMP authorized?
SamSearch states CMMC Level 1 is held today, self-assessed against the 15 FAR 52.204-21 safeguarding requirements for Federal Contract Information. CMMC Level 2, which covers CUI and maps to NIST SP 800-171, is in progress and not held. SamSearch is not FedRAMP authorized; it runs on US cloud infrastructure that holds FedRAMP High authorization at the infrastructure layer, but that authorization belongs to the provider.
Which systems does SamSearch integrate with?
Two-way CRM and pipeline sync with Salesforce, HubSpot and Pipedrive; alerts and updates in Slack and Microsoft Teams; documents in Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, Calendar, SharePoint) and Google Workspace (Gmail, Calendar, Drive); and contract-vehicle tracking for GSA eBuy, GWACs, IDIQs and vehicles such as OASIS+, SEWP and Alliant. Enterprise plans add API access, custom integrations and internal ERP connections.
How is SamSearch different from GovWin or GovTribe?
The vendor positions SamSearch as pairing the market coverage buyers expect from the incumbents with agents that do the capture work: fit scoring, attachment reading, compliance matrices, proposal drafting and a GovCon pipeline, rather than simply surfacing notices. Every opportunity is scored against your business codes, set-asides, incumbent history and past performance so bid/no-bid decisions are defensible, and recompete timing is verified by an analyst desk.