Every open SBIR/STTR topic, scored 1–10 against your capability statement. Weekly digest, ITAR filtered.
Paste a paragraph, get a ranked digest in 45 seconds. No signup, no card.
Prefer not to paste a cap statement? Drop your email and I’ll send you a manually-curated sample within 2 business days. Reply ‘stop’ any time.
Most small R&D shops have one engineer skimming federal solicitations. It’s the worst use of senior time, and the good topics close before they surface.
Reading every new SAM.gov, SBIR.gov, and Grants.gov posting hoping to find the two or three that matter.
Open windows are often 30 days. Generic keyword alerts surface them too late and too noisily.
One controlled notice forwarded to the wrong subcontractor is a problem. We strip those before the digest leaves our servers.
Two minutes to set up. Two minutes to read each Friday.
One PDF, one paragraph, or a link to your website — whatever you already have. We turn it into the matching profile.
New topics get hard-filtered for ITAR / CUI / classified, then scored against your profile by a Claude classifier with a written rationale per topic.
Ranked, deduped, with deadlines and direct links. Two minutes of reading replaces a half-day of browsing.
Run against the public capability statement of a NIH-funded regenerative-biomaterials firm. The classifier scored six solicitations; three are shown.
Your injectable, percutaneously delivered, biodegradable bone adhesive matches every enumerated requirement: fatigue over PMMA, bioactive regeneration, fluoroscopic-compatible delivery, and large-animal preclinical data. Gap: the topic asks for IND-enabling toxicology; your current biocompatibility package targets IDE — confirm whether existing data clears the NIAMS bar before committing.
PRORP’s call for “bone-adhesive biomaterials with image-guided percutaneous delivery and prior preclinical evidence of regenerative bone-remodeling” maps one-to-one onto your osteoconductive injectable adhesive. Deal-breaker to watch: 510(k) or De Novo plan required at submission — your NIH path is IDE/PMA; the regulatory narrative needs reconciling.
Your bioresorbable osteoconductive adhesive fits NIA’s call for materials that improve “long-term bone remodeling in age-related VCF.” Gap: STTR requires a formal university subaward — your existing academic collaborators in regenerative biomaterials would be the natural anchor (STTR rules require the subaward go to a research institution, not a CRO).
Monthly, no annual contract. Cancel any time from the customer portal.
SAM.gov alerts are keyword filters — they send every notice that contains “machine learning” whether the topic fits your shop or not, and they don’t rank or filter ITAR. We read each topic and score it against your specific capability statement.
Yes — SBIR and STTR from all twelve participating agencies (DoD, NIH, NASA, DOE, NSF, USDA, DHS, ED, DOT, EPA, NOAA, HHS). STTR-specific topics are tagged in the digest.
If you sign up today with your capability statement, your first digest goes out the next Friday. There’s no onboarding bottleneck on our end.
Yes. The live matcher runs the same pipeline against this week’s open solicitations — paste your capability statement and you get a ranked digest in under a minute. No card, no signup. If the matches look right, the subscription gets you the same thing automatically every Friday.
The public SAM.gov Opportunities API, the SBIR.gov topic feed, and the Grants.gov daily XML extract — all refreshed daily. We don’t scrape and we don’t republish full solicitation text. Just titles, deadlines, agencies, and our per-topic rationale.
An independent engineer, not a venture-backed team. The pipeline is one operator and Claude; emails get answered the same day. Reach me at jcavallo@alumni.colgate.edu.
I’m James — I built TopicScout because I watched friends running 5–25 person R&D shops lose half a day every week reading SAM.gov. There’s no sales team here. Emails come to me. If a digest misses an obvious match for your shop, reply and I’ll fix the classifier the same week.
Reach me directly at jcavallo@alumni.colgate.edu.
The live matcher runs the same pipeline against this week’s open SBIR/STTR + Grants.gov solicitations. No signup, no card — a ranked digest in about a minute.
If the matches look right, $29/mo gets you the same digest every Friday automatically.