{"slug": "show-hn-firmenza-an-ai-employee-for-sam-gov-and-federal-contracts", "title": "Show HN: Firmenza – An AI employee for SAM.gov and federal contracts", "summary": "Firmenza launched as an AI employee for SAM.gov and federal contracts that checks a business's public registration record, emails expiration reminders starting 75 days out, and matches daily contract opportunities by NAICS code, state and keyword. The service, which offers a free first Full Service order for a new registration or UEI through October 31, states that everything except reading an uploaded filing or certificate runs on fixed rules and contains no AI-generated text. Firmenza also warns that third-party renewal offers, such as one asking $599 for a registration that is free at sam.gov, are not from the government.", "body_md": "# Your AI employee for SAM.gov and federal contracts.\n\nIt checks your record, reminds you before it expires, finds contracts that fit your business and answers your questions.\n\nThrough October 31, your first Full Service order for a new registration or UEI only is free. [See what is included](https://firmenza.com/pricing)\n\n## How it works\n\n1. ### CheckSee what your public record says.\n2. ### WatchAn email before it expires.\n3. ### RenewStep by step, in SAM.gov's order.\n\n## You do not need to pay anyone to renew.\n\nOne renewal offer we found online asked $599 to renew a registration that is free at sam.gov. Offers like it are not from the government.\n\nSample, not a live lookup\n\nTallgrass Hauling LLC\n\nEXPSOON0001B · Tulsa, OK\n\nExpires Oct 9, 2026 · in 25 days\n\n- Renewal due soonRenewal is required every 365 days.\n- No NAICS codes are listedAgencies use NAICS codes to find businesses like yours.\n\nFictional business and dates. The free health check finds no real public record for its UEI.\n\n## How we work with you\n\n- You keep your own Login.gov account. We never sign in as you.\n- You answer every certification yourself. We explain each one first.\n- Our prices, and when you get a refund, are on the pricing page. [See pricing](https://firmenza.com/pricing)\n- No fee when you win a contract, and never more than a year paid ahead.\n- We use your registration's real expiration date, never a made-up deadline.\n\n## What your AI employee does\n\n### Your registration\n\n- Asks you SAM.gov's questions one at a time, and says what each one is for.\n- Checks the format of each answer.\n- On a renewal or an update, notes where an answer differs from your public record.\n- Reads the documents you upload and proposes answers. You confirm each one.\n- Puts your answers into a worksheet, in SAM.gov's order.\n- Changing something mid-year? The update mode asks what changed first, then shows only the sections it touches. [Changing your registration mid-year](https://firmenza.com/guides/changing-your-registration-mid-year)\n\nEverything here but reading a filing or certificate you upload runs on fixed rules and contains no AI-generated text. From a state filing or a certificate of good standing, the AI assistant may read the business's name and address; an ID or a contact card is read by Firmenza's own code.\n\n### Watching your registration\n\n- Every day, re-reads the public SAM.gov record of the registrations you watch, the closest to their expiration date first and as many as SAM.gov's daily limit allows.\n- Emails you reminders from 75 days before the expiration date, with the real date.\n- Near the expiration date, shows a checklist to get ready to renew, beside what your public record said.\n- Tells you when a read finds a change: the status, the expiration date, or details such as the legal name, the address or the CAGE code.\n- When you tell us a renewal was submitted, your watch list says so and waits for the public record to show the new date.\n- Up to three more people can get a registration's reminders, each once they confirm by email.\n- “What buyers see on your public record” lists what the record showed on our last read.\n\nThe watch runs on fixed rules and contains no AI-generated text.\n\n### Finding contract opportunities and grants\n\n- Daily matches with SAM.gov's contract opportunities, by NAICS code, state and keyword, each saying why it matched.\n- Keywords to leave out keep the notices you don't want out of your matches.\n- Saved notices keep a private note and tell you what changed, such as a moved response date.\n- A digest email of new matches and changes, once a day or once a week.\n- “Before you respond”, a short checklist on each notice still open to a response, including whether your registration is active through its response date.\n- “Explain this notice”, a plain summary from the AI assistant, drawn from the notice's published fields and marking what it does not state.\n- The market view: who buys what you sell, from past contract awards in your codes.\n- Also in the market view: contracts in your codes that end within the next year.\n- Grant matches from Grants.gov, with keywords of their own, once you turn them on.\n- New York City bid notices, matched by keyword, once you turn them on.\n\nEverything here but “Explain this notice” runs on fixed rules and contains no AI-generated text. These are tools to help you find and pursue contracts, and the decision to bid is always yours.\n\n### Ask Firmenza\n\n- On Firmenza's pages, the AI assistant answers questions about Firmenza, SAM.gov and your registration, in English or Spanish.\n- It answers from Firmenza's own guides, with links to read more.\n- Signed in, it can also tell you the public status and expiration date of the registrations you watch.\n- In the copilot, it answers about the section you are on, and can follow on from your last two questions there.\n- It never says how to answer a certification. On size, affiliation, ownership, exclusions or lobbying, it explains the words and refers you to a free counselor or an attorney.\n- Signed in, you can choose how it words its answers to you, such as shorter answers or numbered steps.\n\nWherever it talks, its words carry the “AI assistant” label.\n\n### More tools\n\n- A NAICS and PSC code finder that anyone can use, with no account. [Find a code](https://firmenza.com/tools/naics-codes)\n- A capability statement builder for the one page buyers ask for, to print or save as a PDF.\n\nNeither one uses AI.\n\n### Where a person comes in\n\nSAM.gov and Login.gov are for people, so the AI assistant never signs in, never enters anything in SAM.gov and never makes a certification. Your Firmenza specialist enters your registration in SAM.gov, by hand, under a Data Entry role you assign. You make every certification yourself. We explain each one first.\n\n## A person looks it over when you ask.\n\nA member of the Firmenza team reads your worksheet. They do not answer certifications for you, do not give legal advice, and do not file anything.\n\nPrefer an email when the next part lands?\n\n## Pro, for finding contract opportunities\n\nEverything in Care, plus the daily contract matches and the digest.\n\n- Care: we start your renewal 75 days before it expires and tell you at each step.\n- Your Firmenza specialist enters your renewal in SAM.gov. You make every certification yourself.\n- Matches by NAICS, state and keyword\n- The digest in English and Spanish\n\nThe contract matches are free for every account while we launch. Pro is not open yet.\n\n## What we're building next\n\nWe're working on these. They are plans, not promises, and they have no dates.\n\n- Email reminders before the response date of a notice you save.\n- SBIR and STTR topics in your matches.\n- A check of SAM.gov's public exclusion records for the registrations you watch.\n- Solicitation documents, read into a checklist of what they ask for.\n- An analysis by the AI assistant to help you decide whether to bid. The decision is yours.\n- A proposal workspace where the AI assistant drafts only from facts you have confirmed.\n- Approvals and tasks, with a history of what the AI assistant did.\n- A submission package: the documents you have confirmed and a checklist, which you submit yourself.\n- Help getting ready for SBIR, CMMC and state registrations.\n\nFree help also exists: [APEX Accelerators](https://www.apexaccelerators.us/) (DoD-funded, free) and the [Federal Service Desk](https://www.fsd.gov/) will help you at no charge. We built Firmenza to be useful alongside them.\n\n## Common questions\n\n## Is Firmenza part of SAM.gov or the government?\n\nNo. Firmenza is a private company.\n\n## Do I need Firmenza to register or renew?\n\nNo. You can do it all yourself on sam.gov.\n\n## Do you log in to SAM.gov for me?\n\nNever, and we never ask for your login.gov credentials. You sign in yourself; the assistant explains each section and checks the format of what you type.\n\n## Will you answer the reps and certs for me?\n\nNo. Those are federal certifications you make yourself. We explain what they mean in plain language and refer specific questions to a counselor or attorney.\n\n## Where does the health-check data come from?\n\nThe public tier of SAM.gov's Entity Management API. We never show bank or tax numbers.\n\n## What does \"not found\" mean?\n\nEither the entity has no public record or it has opted out of public display. We report both possibilities and never label a business \"unregistered\".\n\n## What does it cost?\n\nThe check, the reminders, the copilot and a review of your worksheet by a member of the Firmenza team are free. A Firmenza specialist's work is paid, at the prices on the pricing page, shown again before you pay. Through October 31, the first Full Service order an account sends for a new registration or UEI only is free. A free new registration does not include the first year of Care. Registration and renewal in SAM.gov are free at sam.gov.\n\n## Who is behind Firmenza?\n\nThree founders in Springfield, Missouri. One of us built the SAM.gov entity-registration workflow and secure document upload/validation at TechSur (2021-2022).\n\n## Does a person really review my application?\n\nA member of the Firmenza team reads your worksheet when you ask from a copilot session. It is not legal advice, and nobody answers a certification for you.\n\n## Is Firmenza available in Spanish?\n\nYes. Switch languages at the top of any page.\n\n## See what your record says.\n\nFirmenza is a small company in Springfield, Missouri, whose AI employee helps US small businesses register in SAM.gov, keep their registration current and find federal contract opportunities.\n\nFirmenza works in English and Spanish. 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