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Context kept getting lost
Akash spent years in federal sales at IBM, watching GovCon teams restart from scratch every time a deal moved forward. Context rarely carried over. Most of it lived in people’s heads, not in their systems.
Built by engineers for GovCon
GovCon has a continuity problem
Every BD-to-Capture handoff rebuilds what the last team already knew. We built GovEagle to fix the layer where institutional knowledge should transfer — and doesn't.
What we believe
Principles behind every decision
The story never starts over
Every handoff between BD, Capture, and Proposals rebuilds knowledge from scratch. That's structural, not workflow. GovCons lose wins they already earned.
Domain experience isn’t optional
General AI tools don't know what a color team is, or how a PWS is structured, or why LPTA isn't best-value. We built GovEagle for this world. It wasn't adapted later.
Continuity is the competitive edge
The GovCons that win consistently don't have the best writers. They have the best memory. GovEagle makes that memory persistent, searchable, and useful at every stage.
The origin
“GovCon doesn’t have a writing problem. It has a continuity problem.”“GovCon doesn’t have a writing problem. It has a continuity problem.”
Akash Mandavilli
Co-Founder
Gabe Villasana
Co-Founder
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Complex decisions need better infrastructure
Gabe built machine learning systems at Stripe, Lyft, and Amazon. When he looked at GovCon, the problem was clear: proposal work kept resetting instead of building on itself.
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One story, carried forward
They started GovEagle to fix that handoff, carrying the same context from opportunity to delivery so every team works from one story, one source, and one voice.
By the numbers
GovEagle at a glance
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Headquarter
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GovCon customers
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Our backers
Backed by trusted startup and federal expertise
GovEagle is backed by Y Combinator and Strategic Cyber Ventures, giving the company both startup credibility and deep roots in government technology.
Our team
The people behind GovEagle
Akash Mandavilli
CEO & Co-Founder
Akash is a 2x founder with AI experience at Meta and a background in federal sales at IBM.
He started GovEagle after seeing how often BD teams had to rebuild knowledge that should have moved with the opportunity.
Gabe Villasana
CTO & Co-Founder
Published machine learning researcher who built AI models at Stripe, Lyft, and Amazon.
Gabe brings the engineering discipline of large scale consumer AI to federal contracting, a space that has long lacked serious technical infrastructure.
Carlo Uchello
Strategic advisor
Andrew Erne
Advisor
Bradford Powell
GovCon expert
How we work
Opinionated about the craft
Domain first
We build around how BD teams, capture leads, and proposal writers actually work. Every product decision is checked against real workflows, not generic enterprise software assumptions. We use the product ourselves and talk to customers every week.
Earn the trust
GovCon teams work in high-stakes, compliance-heavy environments. We don’t ship things before they’re ready, and we don’t make claims we can’t stand behind. Trust takes longer to build than software.
The hard parts matter
Federal work comes with details you can’t ignore: solicitations, amendments, compliance matrices, formatting, and reviews. We don’t pretend those parts don’t exist. We help teams move through them faster.
Small team, uncompromising
We’re a focused team. Everything we ship reflects what we actually believe in. If the work doesn’t matter to customers, we don’t build it.
50%+
Reduction in proposal time
1B+
In awards won by our customers
80%
Less SME time at Gate 0
1 week
Go-live without process changes
Join the team
Come build with us
We're looking for engineers, product designers, and domain experts who want to do meaningful work at the intersection of AI and federal contracting. Small team, high ownership, real impact.
Ready to win more?
See it in action
One story. One source. One voice. See what that looks like for your team.