For investors
American government is one of the largest customers on earth and one of the hardest to sell to — not because the money is hidden, but because it is scattered across tens of thousands of independent buyers. GubbrMint is building the layer that makes it legible.
The market
Every figure below is public, and its source is named underneath it.
$750B+
Federal contract obligations, annually
USAspending.gov / FPDS, FY2023–FY2024
90,837
Local government units, each buying independently
U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Census of Governments
19,000+
Municipal governments inside that count
Plus ~3,000 counties, ~12,500 school districts, ~39,000 special districts
$178B
Federal contract dollars to small businesses
U.S. Small Business Administration scorecard, FY2023
Small and mid-size contractors — construction, professional services, IT, facilities, supplies — that already sell to government or want to start. They are numerous, they are underserved by incumbent tooling, and their willingness to pay is anchored to the value of a single won contract.
Federal set-asides alone route roughly $178B a year toward exactly the businesses least equipped to find the work. That is a legislated, recurring stream of demand pointed at our customer — before state and local budgets are counted at all.
Why now
Federal appropriations pass through to states, counties, and cities, where they turn into thousands of local solicitations. The spending is landing precisely at the layer with the worst discovery.
Open-data mandates and modern e-procurement systems put far more of this corpus within reach of software than was possible a decade ago — and language models finally make unstructured notices parseable at scale.
The established platforms priced and built for large primes with dedicated capture teams. The long tail of capable smaller firms is left with free portals and manual searching — a gap wide enough to enter through.
The wedge
Federal data is the easiest to collect, so everyone starts there and competes on the same commodity feed. Municipal data is fragmented, inconsistent, and tedious — which is exactly why it is defensible.
The work of reaching thousands of local sources and normalizing what comes back is slow to do and slow to copy. It compounds: each new source makes matching better for every customer, and the resulting corpus is an asset a competitor cannot buy.
Where we are
Pre-launch, founder-led, building toward a private beta. We are talking early with investors who understand public-sector software and want to be in before the first release.
Problem validated with working contractors. Coverage model and ingestion architecture defined. Aggregation engine in active development.
Engineering to widen municipal and state coverage, the matching layer, and the first go-to-market motion into contractor communities.
Private beta with a hand-picked group of contractors running matching and alerts against live solicitations, then public launch on this domain.
Get in touch
Tell us a little about your firm and we will send materials and set up a conversation. Prefer email? investors@gubbrmint.com.
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