What it is

What does Longlead AI do?

Longlead AI is an AI BD analyst that reads public records and tells you which upcoming projects will need your specific scope before that need appears as a named bid. It watches signals like MILCON budget lines, SAM.gov notices, federal awards, and state filings, infers the sub-tier work a project implies for your trade, and delivers a ranked, evidence-cited feed with the buyer named.

Is Longlead a lead database or an aggregator?

Longlead is not an aggregator, and it doesn't compete on breadth. It competes on per-customer judgment and earliness: instead of a big searchable database of listed projects, it infers the specific invisible scope hidden inside a project and cites the record it came from. Two direct competitors get genuinely different feeds.

How is Longlead different from a bid board or ConstructConnect?

A bid board lists projects that are already at bid; Longlead flags the scope months before it's named anywhere you can buy a lead, typically 9–18 months on major projects. Aggregators win on breadth of listed deals. Longlead deliberately doesn't compete there. It works upstream, inferring your specific sub-scope from public signals while the project is still forming.

What industries does Longlead cover?

Longlead covers shielding and secure facilities today. The engine is horizontal. It can stand up any industry whose downstream demand can be inferred from public records but is invisible in the record's headline, so coverage expands to new inferable verticals over time.

How it works

How early does Longlead flag an opportunity?

It depends on the segment: typically 9–18 months before your scope is named on major federal projects, with shorter windows on small renovation jobs. Every delivered row carries a confidence score and a lead-time window grounded in the signal's actual date versus when that kind of work is usually let. The earliness is measured from the record, never asserted.

How do I know a prospect is real and not made up?

Every prospect cites the specific public record it was derived from: a J-book line, a SAM notice ID, an award. That citation resolves to a human-readable page you can open. If a prospect can't be traced back to a citable public source, it doesn't ship.

Does Longlead do outreach for me?

Longlead never contacts anyone on your behalf. It prepares a cited qualification brief: who is already connected, and why now. You make the call, from your own channels. Nothing leaves the system.

Trust & data

Does my data train a model that helps my competitors?

Longlead never fine-tunes a shared model on your data, and your specific deals, relationships, and margins are never shown to another customer. Our Privacy Policy explains how any generalized, identity-stripped industry knowledge is handled.

Does Longlead fine-tune an AI model on my data?

Longlead does not fine-tune any model on your data.

Who makes the final call on an opportunity?

You do: Longlead is human-gated by design. It ranks, cites, and explains; it never decides, contacts, or acts on your behalf. The qualification brief is prepared so you can judge it and make the call yourself.

Pricing & coverage

What does Longlead cost?

Longlead is one product at one price: the price is the same whichever scopes you track and wherever you work, so there is no per-scope or per-territory build-up. You still choose the scopes your feed is fitted to — that shapes what you see, not what you pay. You pay $0 until you buy it. Monthly plans renew every month; annual plans renew yearly at a discount to twelve monthly payments, and both figures are shown before you buy.

Do you sell exclusive rights to a scope or territory?

No — Longlead never sells exclusive rights to any scope or territory, and we'll sell to anyone in your space. Your advantage comes from a feed fitted to your business and the workflow that becomes your book of business, not from locking competitors out.

Is Longlead the same as GovWin, GovSignals, HigherGov, or Mercator?

No: each solves a different problem, and we compare against them honestly on their own pages. In short, GovWin and HigherGov are broad program-level intel, GovSignals helps you win the prime bid, and Mercator serves private commercial construction, while Longlead infers your specific sub-tier scope and names who to call.