
Usul is an AI-powered platform designed for modern defense teams to win government contracts. It offers a comprehensive workspace that allows users to map organizations (PEOs), navigate markets, track opportunities, and analyze budgets in context of their capabilities. Key features include a PEO directory for org charts and budget insights, strategic planning tools to discover federal funding, a contract inbox for personalized opportunity recommendations, pipeline management for team collaboration, competitive intelligence, and a recompete tracker to identify incumbent contracts for bidding. Usul aims to streamline the defense contracting process, enabling companies to stay lean, identify the right funding, and focus on execution. The platform is used by defense startups, defense primes, consulting firms, and lobbying firms.

Usul is an AI-powered platform designed for modern defense teams to win government contracts. It offers a comprehensive workspace that allows users to map organizations (PEOs), navigate markets, track opportunities, and analyze budgets in context of their capabilities. Key features include a PEO directory for org charts and budget insights, strategic planning tools to discover federal funding, a contract inbox for personalized opportunity recommendations, pipeline management for team collaboration, competitive intelligence, and a recompete tracker to identify incumbent contracts for bidding. Usul aims to streamline the defense contracting process, enabling companies to stay lean, identify the right funding, and focus on execution. The platform is used by defense startups, defense primes, consulting firms, and lobbying firms.
Product: AI platform for defense contract capture — matches solicitations, maps PEOs/budgets, tracks incumbents, and provides a B2G CRM
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Founding year: 2024
Latest funding: $3.3M Seed (announced May 12, 2025)
Typical customers: Defense startups, primes, consulting and lobbying firms
Defense contract capture and federal business development
2024
Defense / Government contracting software
$3,300,000
Seed round announced May 12, 2025 with participation from multiple angel and institutional investors
“Backed by defense-focused angels and firms, led by Scout Ventures”