FDE-delivered · 15 capability areas

Capabilities your FDE team implements with you

Forward deployed engineering (FDE) is how these ship: scoping, integration, and handoff sit with your staff—not a generic admin panel you are left to figure out alone.

The following reflects a full-featured enterprise capture stack you can enable as the procurement module—aggregation, pipeline, proposals, compliance, AI, teams, and public intelligence. Your FDE embeds Vourix—VPC, agents, and connectors—while the same shell can be tuned for other back-office and white-label automation your security approves.

Map capabilities to your rollout Procurement suite

Discovery & search

Federal, state, and local solicitations in one place—with filters and language that match how teams actually work.

Comprehensive opportunity aggregation

Federal, state, and local opportunities from broad source coverage, normalized into a single stream you can filter and route.

Multi-source federal, state, and local coverage
Nationwide scope including states and major municipalities

Intelligent search

Natural-language queries plus structured filters for NAICS, PSC, vehicle, and source platform—so analysts spend less time clicking.

Natural language and example-driven search
Advanced filters for NAICS, PSC, and sources

Opportunity recommendations

A Recommended console view surfaces fresh notices from your index (newest-first heuristic today; profile-based matching can replace it later).

In-app feed with one-click save to pipeline
Room for profile and AI scoring when you wire them

Pipeline & planning

Move from awareness to pursuit with stages, research workspaces, and traceable decisions—not a static spreadsheet.

Opportunity pipeline

Save solicitations from Capture (Search or Recommended tab), then move them through fixed capture stages—no extra configuration tables.

Save from Capture tabs or Overview queues
Board view with stages from saved through submitted

Planning & research workspace

Deep-dive areas for compliance themes, pricing, past performance, teaming, technical approach, documents, and tasks—kept next to the solicitation.

Structured research surfaces per opportunity
Task and document context alongside AI output

Proposals & compliance

Draft, section, and verify proposals against the solicitation with matrices and checks your contracts lead can defend.

Proposal management

Create and edit proposals from pipeline stages with rich text, templates, sections, and AI help for drafting and formatting.

Draft proposals tied to pipeline records
Templates, sections, and writing assistance

Automated compliance

Build compliance matrices from requirements and run checks against draft content so gaps surface before color team week.

Matrices generated from solicitation text
Real-time or on-demand checks against drafts

AI assistance

Consultants and automations scoped to clauses, requirements, and your own policies—not generic chat pasted into Word.

AI contract consultant

Chat-style guidance on clauses, instructions, and evaluation criteria—grounded in the documents for that opportunity.

Explanations of complex requirements
Scoped to solicitation and policy you allow

Business profile

Locations, NAICS, set-asides, documents, and brand context so recommendations and drafts reflect your real company.

Trained on your business

Profile for locations, NAICS, set-asides, uploads, and positioning so search, alerts, and drafts stay on-brand.

NAICS, set-aside, and geography preferences
Document and team context for better matching

Teams, alerts & plans

Notifications, seats, and subscription tiers that scale from solo primes to multi-office capture orgs.

Smart notifications

Configurable alerts for new opportunities, deadlines, and high-priority matches—with in-app history and email controls.

Opportunity and deadline alerts
Preferences and unsubscribe flows

Subscriptions & teams

Tiered plans with AI usage, geographic coverage, and team seats; invite flows for shared capture work.

Plans scaled from individual to enterprise
Team collaboration and invites on higher tiers

Maps, blog & intelligence

Public and in-app views that help you scan geography, read analysis, and share opportunities with partners.

Reports & analytics

Narrative and tabular views across opportunities, agencies, companies, contacts, and industries—exportable for leadership reviews.

Opportunity and market reporting
Agency, company, and contact lenses

Relationship management

Network-oriented workflows for contracting officers, APEX accelerators, and partners so relationships sit next to pipeline data.

Contact and partner context
Ecosystem and marketplace-style discovery

Regulatory guidance

FAR, DFARS, and small-business program references with search and AI-assisted interpretation for quick answers during color teams.

Regulation-aware Q&A
Small-business and clause navigation

Contract map & public content

Geographic exploration of opportunities plus blog and opportunity-detail pages, RSS, and sitemaps for discovery and SEO.

Interactive opportunity maps by region
Blog, opportunity articles, and syndication hooks