We are excited to announce that Unanet GrowthStudio for GovCon and ProposalAI have passed their FedRAMP Moderate Equivalency audit.

For a government contractor, the data you feed an AI tool is rarely just yours. Past performance write-ups, technical approaches, and pricing detail often contain Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), and the government requires you to protect it. And with the rise of AI systems, especially frontier model applications that are very easy to access, many contractors will unknowingly mishandle this type of information (or just turn a blind eye). But with a Unanet FedRAMP Moderate system, GovCons can safely use the leading frontier models in a secure solution designed to find and win government work.

FedRAMP Moderate

FedRAMP is a government-created evaluation process that vets how safely and securely a cloud-based solution handles and manages data. There are multiple levels, each able to handle different levels of data sensitivity. FedRAMP Moderate Equivalency is the baseline required for systems handling CUI

Frontier AI Applications vs. GrowthStudio

The models inside GrowthStudio are the same frontier models used in the LLM applications. What is different is the environment they sit in, and that environment is what sets GrowthStudio apart on security and performance.

Security

If you work for a GovCon and use an LLM, always use a business account. Enterprise plans from the major providers do not train on your data (allegedly). But an enterprise account is not an authorized environment to handle government work. Putting CUI into one can still leave you out of compliance with the DFARS and NIST data protection requirements in your contracts, and that puts you at risk in an audit. And it's not just the data you use to create your agents that poses a risk. It's also how you connect your LLMs to other business systems. Recently, model context protocol has become all the rage in how-to LLM videos. Those are the "connectors" you see in Claude and ChatGPT, and they add another layer of risk. Every system you connect is another path for sensitive data to flow somewhere it shouldn't. The system you're connecting to may hold CUI and your LLM pulls it in, or your LLM may pass sensitive data you've uploaded to another system. No matter how careful you are, you're one connection away from infringing on data protection requirements, but with a FedRAMP-assessed environment, you can protect government information without the worry.

Performance and ROI

Generic AI tools were not built for GovCon BD and proposal work. You have to build agents, set up MCPs, and then you need to constantly check if your MCP is working or your agent has up-to-date data. And then you'll need to build a process to ensure all potential opportunities are being seen and qualified correctly, all activities and tasks are being tracked, and all proposal due dates are hit with proposals that are both compliant and high quality. All of this, on top of an unsecure environment, puts your organization in a position where you are spending more time managing your capture process than bidding on and winning work. With GrowthStudio, you get a purpose-built data model and user experience made for government contracting. Your data is secure, CUI or not, and put to work correctly and impactfully: surfacing the right opportunities without managing APIs or MCPs, automatically pulling in and tracking opportunity tasks and activities (including emails from your Outlook, securely), and producing proposals from your past performance that are fully compliant and free of AI slop.

 Control

Lastly, there's control and intention, important when your goal is winning more work. With an LLM, prompting is risky. Quality varies day to day, and that can mean incorrect information injected into a proposal, a wrong opportunity pursued, or fabricated activity logged against an opportunity you're chasing. And even when you prompt to the best of your ability, LLMs still hallucinate up to 60% with large amounts of data. GrowthStudio's data model limits hallucinations through a page-aware AI assistant, a dedicated proposal workflow, and a two-layer opportunity evaluation and qualification process.

Closing/CTA

We are sure your team is using AI, or getting ready to. As a purpose-built vendor of AI solutions for GovCon BD, we want to be sure you use it safely and effectively. The cost of not doing so, whether it be wasteful token usage or breaching contract requirements, is something you should not have to pay. With GrowthStudio, you get the same frontier models your team is already reaching for, inside a FedRAMP Moderate assessed environment, connected to a data model built for GovCon capture and proposals.

Ready to see it in action? Schedule a demo of GrowthStudio.