You get five minutes. Most companies spend them on the wrong thing.
A five-minute pitch video is what stands between your company and a post-competition path to a defense contract. A panel scores it against a published rubric. Almost nobody reads the rubric first.
Three quarters of the score is mission and state of the art. Companies spend those minutes on a product demo, and a product demo is not what is being scored.
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Videos are collected monthly and must arrive by noon Eastern on the last day of the month to be assessed in that cycle.
A shelf that defense buyers can order from without running a competition.
The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is a repository of post-competition pitch videos in the artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital and data analytics space. Every solution in it has already cleared a competitive, merit-based assessment.
Eight kinds of company belong here. Most have never heard of it.
Commercial AI, data and software companies
You solve hard problems and assume you do not fit in defense. The marketplace exists to reach nontraditional contractors.
Hardware companies that assume they do not qualify
Robotics, sensing, autonomy. There is almost always a software and data layer, and framing it is most of the work.
Companies whose Awardable status is expiring
You were on the shelf. The clock runs 24 months and then the solution is removed.
Companies assessed non-awardable
You received written feedback and you are welcome to resubmit. That feedback is a map.
SBIR and STTR awardees facing the transition cliff
You built it with government funding. There is a dedicated aisle and a Phase III path on the far side.
Prototype OTA completers
There is an aisle specifically for completed prototype projects under prototype other transaction agreements.
Universities, labs and research institutes
Academic partners are eligible. A lab with a working capability and no commercialization path has a door here.
Companies already in with one solution
Nothing limits you to one. If you have three product lines, two of them are sitting on the bench.
We are not consultants who read the announcement once. We have taken nine solutions through this process and had every one assessed as Awardable.
Most were physical systems such as robotics, orbital assembly and autonomy. The skill we sell is making a hardware capability legible to a rubric written for artificial intelligence and data.
You keep the video. You keep the submission. You own the relationship with the government from day one.
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Three ways in, starting with the one that costs nothing.
Do you qualify
Thirty minutes, no charge. We look at what you have built and tell you whether the rubric has a place for it, which aisle applies, and what the honest odds are. No deck.
One full cycle
Positioning, script, rubric mapping, video production coordination and submission inside a single monthly collection period. You approve everything and submit under your own account.
Awardable to awarded
Awardable status is a door, not a check. We help build the program office list and the government-facing brief that turns a listing into a conversation with someone holding budget.
Some SBIR and STTR awardees can fund work like this through Technical and Business Assistance. Availability and rules differ sharply by agency and by solicitation, and several defense programs do not offer it at all. We check yours before anyone assumes anything.
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Tell us what you have built and which aisle you think you fit. The first call is thirty minutes, no charge, no deck — we will tell you whether the rubric has a place for it and what the honest odds are.
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