SBIR/STTR Grant Writer — AI/M&A Software Company (Fixed-Fee, Ongoing)

Alethinx, Inc. is a Delaware C-Corp in McKinney, Texas building AI software for mergers and acquisitions. We serve lower-middle-market buyers — search-fund entrepreneurs, independent sponsors, family offices, small PE firms — across deal sourcing, financial and risk diligence, cybersecurity assessment, and lender readiness. Where we are: five U.S. provisional patent applications filed with the USPTO (April 2026), SAM.gov active (UEI SZCFBY18A119, CAGE 201B1), NSF SBIR Phase I submitted July 2026. We are pre-revenue with no paying customers yet. Saying that up front because you'll be writing about this company to reviewers and you need to know what's true before deciding whether you can win with it. What we need Primary: federal SBIR/STTR proposals — DHS, DoD, DOE, DARPA, and an NSF resubmission. Full cycle: solicitation analysis, go/no-go recommendation, narrative drafting with our CEO, budget justification, forms, compliance, submission. Secondary: Texas state and regional programs, with realistic expectations. We're a two-person pre-revenue company with no facility, so we know most economic-development money priced on job creation and capital investment is closed to us. We want someone who will tell us which programs to skip, not pad a list. First milestone (paid, ~1 week): a landscape audit. Verify the current status of Texas SB 209 (SBIR matching / Phase 0). Assess our eligibility across state and regional programs. Deliver a go/no-go memo — including what we should not pursue and why. Ongoing: maintain a reusable answer bank so the third proposal costs less effort than the first. Requirements Federal SBIR/STTR proposals you personally wrote that were funded — name agency, program, year, award Fluency with Grants.gov, SAM.gov, Research.gov, DSIP Ability to turn technical architecture into a narrative a non-specialist reviewer scores well Willing to write honestly for a pre-revenue company without overstating what exists US-based (required — federal work-performance and export-control requirements) GPC certification or deep-tech/AI grant background a plus First milestone: paid review of our submitted NSF Phase I proposal plus a go/no-go recommendation across three DHS and DoD solicitations we're evaluating. Small, fast, and it tells us both whether this works.