Industry · Aerospace and Defense Components
Be on the prime's shortlist before the RFQ is written.
Primes and Tier 1 suppliers search for approved sources long before they issue an RFQ. We make your approvals, materials, processes and program experience explicit enough to be found and verified.
The retrieval problem
Primes search for approvals. Sites bury them in a PDF.
A supplier quality engineer needs a second source for heat-treated structural parts with NADCAP approval. Most component suppliers list their approvals in a downloadable certificate pack. The supplier retrieved is the one whose pages state the part types, the special processes and the approvals in text.
Buyer queries
The queries we model in this market.
Examples, one from each stage of a purchase. Your report models the full set for your services and your region.
What approvals does a supplier need to make military aircraft parts?
NADCAP-approved heat treating and machining suppliers
Build-to-print vs design-and-build suppliers for defense programs
CMMC-ready component suppliers for a new defense program
What has to be explicit
The facts systems need to match you to those queries.
- Part types and assemblies you make, by platform or system where you can say
- Approvals stated in text: AS9100, NADCAP special processes
- ITAR registration, SAM.gov registration and CAGE code
- Cybersecurity compliance: DFARS 252.204-7012, NIST SP 800-171, CMMC level
- Traceability and first article inspection (AS9102)
Who we work with
- Structural components
- Machined and fabricated parts
- Special processes
Who decides
Supply chain managers, supplier quality engineers and design authorities at primes.
How it starts
From application to roadmap.
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Apply
Answer seven short questions about your business. We read every application.
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15-minute consultation
Free. We show you two or three verified retrieval weaknesses in your market.
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Retrieval Opportunity Report
A measured diagnosis of one service category, and a prioritised roadmap.
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Implementation
The roadmap carried out, then re-tested against the same measures.
Common questions
Much of our work is ITAR-controlled. What can we publish?
Capabilities, approvals and part types, without technical data or programs. That is usually enough to be matched, and it stays inside export rules.
Defense work is won through RFQs. Why does AI visibility matter?
RFQs go to suppliers the prime already knows. Engineers and buyers search for new sources first, and that is where suppliers are found.
The roadmap, service by service
Free 15-minute consultation
Find out where your business stands.
- How search and AI systems currently interpret your business
- Where competitors are better understood than you
- Specific retrieval weaknesses, checked before we speak
- Whether there is work worth doing, and what it is worth to you
Apply for a free 15-minute consultation
We reply within one business day, and usually within the hour.