01 — New to federal funding
You have the technology and a first read of a solicitation, and no clear answer on whether you qualify. The screen comes before the writing.
I partner with small businesses to prequalify fit and deliver the complete package that wins federal funding — across SBIR, STTR, and NOFO programs.
Your team owns the science. I deliver the structure, the compliance, and the scoring strategy reviewers weight most.
Small businesses pursuing federal R&D dollars — with the science in hand and no proposal department behind it.
You have the technology and a first read of a solicitation, and no clear answer on whether you qualify. The screen comes before the writing.
The topic fits and the deadline is weeks out. You need the technical volume, the budget, and the full compliance set built to score.
No grants office, no proposal manager, no writer — and no reason to staff one. Fixed fee, defined scope, for the package you actually need.
If one of these is your situation, the first conversation is short and specific.
“We're not sure we even qualify.”
Eligibility, entity registration, cost share, and the topic area or tier your innovation genuinely fits — screened first, with a go / no-go you can act on before anyone writes a page.
“We wrote it ourselves and scored badly.”
Reviewers read fast and score against published criteria. The package gets restructured to how those criteria are weighted — the same science, ordered so it earns the points it deserves.
“The deadline is four weeks out.”
A build that once took months compresses into days and weeks — AI for production, my judgment on what gets built, and every claim, number, and citation verified before it ships.
The programs offer Phase I awards up to $323,090 for 2026, and Phase II awards up to $2,153,927. Individual agencies may provide less, and most projects typically range from $150,000 to $305,000.
Each of the eleven agencies runs its own topics, portal, and deadlines.
See the agency calendar →A single NOFO can carry $150 million or more, with per-award limits and cost sharing — commonly 20% of total project cost — from non-federal sources.
Each NOFO is segmented into topic areas, or tiers, each carrying its own wants and criteria. It is essential to understand not only the eligibility criteria, but which tier your innovation fits, and what federal gates are required ahead of application.
See what's open now →Your application will be thoroughly evaluated on your company's past experience against the size of the project, to determine its credibility as a prime candidate for funding.
If you do not have a history of managing projects of equal or greater size, partnering with an established organization, an experienced prime recipient, or a university is the best offset to achieve funding success.
Three defined ways in — screen first, then build the package the solicitation demands.
No hourly meter. No contingency. You know the deliverable and the price before we start.
Every engagement runs the same way — your team provides the science, I build the rest. See the engagement checklist →
NOFO packages are quoted once we have worked through the scope the specific announcement demands — topic area, cost share, teaming structure, and the document set that NOFO requires. Fixed fee before anything starts, same as the rest.
Targeting a DoW / defense solicitation? Third-party audits were suspended in July 2026 — but a self-assessment can still gate an award. Read about CMMC →
The build that once cost a small business months and a grant consultant's fee now takes days and weeks — the leverage is real, the judgment stays mine.
Four decades across energy, defense, aerospace, industrial, and medical markets set what gets built and why — before any tool runs.
Production that once took months compresses into days and weeks — without staffing a department to do it.
Every claim, number, and citation is checked against reality. AI is fluent; fluent is not the same as right.
Structured to how reviewers actually read and weight — the compliance and scoring craft that most often decides funding.
I optimized AI as a process tool to deliver high value in less time.
Client work runs only on commercial-tier AI under business terms that don't train on your inputs — never the consumer apps most people picture. You decide what's shared; the novel core of an invention rarely needs to enter a tool at all. And a mutual NDA sits under the engagement before any material changes hands.
More straight answers →I'm Scott Wise — 40 years commercializing new technology across oil & gas, defense, and industrial markets. I was first engaged to produce an SBIR in 2021 — federal proposals in defense, energy, aerospace, and medical technology have been part of the work ever since.
WiseExecution grew out of that work. Commercializing my own company, Vision AIS, I learned to direct AI to produce real commercial deliverables — and learned, often the hard way, exactly where it fails and where human judgment can't be delegated. In six weeks, solo, I built 14 categories of commercial deliverables: USPTO provisional patents, SBIR Phase I applications, IP strategy, competitive analysis.
Technology development runs in cycles. In its natural holding periods, I put that hard-won experience to work for other small businesses — on fixed fees and defined scope.
Owns the science. The research, the invention, the technical truth — that stays where it belongs.
Delivers the structure, compliance, and scoring strategy — the parts reviewers weight most heavily, and the parts that quietly eat the most time to get right.
Let's talk before the window closes.