Agentic Intelligence for the Federal Market

Build a strategy that wins.

Where others see scattered data, we connect the dots. HitchAI turns budgets, contracts, and opportunities into a decisive edge — through a live data service you can plug into, a web platform you can explore, or bespoke intelligence built around your next move.

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Master the market to secure your edge.

0 Defense request we track, line by line

0 Sourced & traceable to record

0 Live via MCP & API

Hours Typical custom-report turnaround

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01 — What we do

Three ways to put strategic intelligence to work.

Commission the analysis, explore it yourself in the platform, or subscribe to the live signal. Same underlying rigor, sized to how you operate.

Custom Intelligence & Briefings

When the question is specific and the stakes are real, we build the answer — analyst-grade work product, delivered fast and ready to act on.

Reports & analysesMarket sizing, competitor teardowns, capture support.

PresentationsBoard-ready decks and briefings that hold up to scrutiny.

DashboardsLive views of your pipeline, market, and positioning.

DatabasesStructured, queryable datasets stood up for your team.

Data callsFast, sourced answers to one-off strategic questions.

AdvisoryAn analyst on call when the moment matters.

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Web Platform

An interactive workspace for the federal budget — defense and civilian — and the market around it. Point, click, and explore. No query language, no spreadsheet wrangling.

Ask Hitch

Every page carries a built-in AI analyst. Ask in plain English — Ask Hitch plans the question, pulls from budgets, contracts, opportunities, and the people behind them, and answers with every claim cited to the record.

HitchAI FYDP — the five-year plan inside the request — **Pentagon budget — FYDP** Program lines from RDT&E to procurement, request through enacted.

HitchAI President's Budget — the whole federal request, defense and civilian — **President's Budget** The entire federal request — defense and civilian, every agency, one search.

HitchAI In Congress — the request moving through authorization & appropriations — **Congressional action** Authorization & appropriations marks, bill status, and floor outlook.

HitchAI IT Budget — the federal IT & cyber investment portfolio — **IT budget** The federal IT & cyber investment portfolio, broken out.

HitchAI Contracts Intelligence — vendor family view — **Contracts** Prime awards, vehicles, and the competitors winning them.

HitchAI People — key personnel across agencies and industry — **People** Contracting officers, agency officials, and company leadership — the people behind the programs.

HitchAI Federal Opportunities — the board, scored for fit — **Federal Opportunities** Open solicitations scored for fit — a "Should we bid" verdict, and what each amendment actually changed.

HitchAI Markets — a custom market view with the built-in AI assistant — **Markets** Custom views of tailored markets — build and save the slices that matter to you.

Subscription Data Service

A continuously maintained intelligence layer over federal budgets, prime & sub contracts, daily award announcements, opportunities, bid protests, and entity ownership — delivered however your team already works.

MCP servers Query budgets & contracts directly from Claude and your AI tools.
APIs & data feeds Pipe clean, reconciled records into your CRM, BI stack, or warehouse.
Watchlists & alerts Track agencies, programs, vehicles, and competitors as they move.

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02 — The Hitch MCP

Answers your AI can use, not raw rows.

Most federal-data MCP servers hand your AI the same USAspending and SAM.gov fields you could download yourself. Ask one for the top vendors at NAVSEA and it stops at "Department of the Navy." Hitch hands your AI the structure an analyst builds by hand, so the first answer is the useful one.

What your AI gets	Free API wrappers	Other GovCon MCPs	HitchAI
Vendor families	Parent tree at best	1 of 9	Whole corporate family — subsidiaries and joint ventures — rolled into the totals
Agency down to the office	Stops at the department	1 of 9	Office codes, funding vs. contracting side
Contract vehicles	One contract at a time	3 of 9	Vehicle pages: holders, ceiling, top buyers
Opportunity value and award date	—	3 of 9	Estimated range, basis and confidence — labeled as estimates
Incumbent	—	2 of 9	The contract on record, or a labeled prediction
The solicitation, read for you	—	4 of 9	Clearance, CMMC, award basis, CLINs, page limits — with the quote
GAO bid protests	Rare	4 of 9	Docket and decisions
DoD budget line items	—	0 of 9	RDT&E, Procurement, O&M and MILCON, to the project
Congressional marks	—	0 of 9	HASC, SASC and House appropriators, with bill status
DoD daily contract announcements	—	0 of 9	Searchable, by company and date
Selected Acquisition Reports	—	0 of 9	All 42 FY 2027 MSARs

“Other GovCon MCPs” counts how many of nine commercial servers offer what the HitchAI column says, from their published tools and docs; free wrappers were tested live. Highlighted rows: no other MCP server we tested offers them. October 2026.

One chain, one server

Follow a dollar from the budget line, to the office that spends it, to the contract, the next opportunity and the protest — in one conversation.

Honest about what it knows

Every estimate says it is an estimate, with its basis. A missing value reads “not stated,” never “no.” Answers carry their as-of date.

Works where you work

Claude and any MCP client. 76 read-only tools across budgets, contracts, opportunities, protests and acquisition programs.

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03 — Approach

From raw data to competitive advantage.

Ingest

We pull from authoritative federal sources — budgets, contracts, subawards, and entity registrations — and normalize them into one model.

Reconcile

Every figure is validated and traceable. Obligations stay signed, levels never get summed, fiscal years never get crossed.

Curate

We build class-leading vendor, agency, and contract-vehicle hierarchies — the connective structure most sources never provide.

Connect

AI extracts and links entities across every source, so budgets, contracts, and the companies behind them read as one picture.

Analyze

We turn the data into a thesis — where the money is moving, who's winning, and where your shot is widest open.

Deliver

Feed, dashboard, deck, or memo — in the format your decision actually needs, when it needs it.

04 — About

The story behind HitchAI.

Why “HitchAI”?

We needed a snappy name for a platform grounded in the FYDP. Charles Hitch was the economist who introduced program budgeting in Robert McNamara's Pentagon — the discipline that became the Future Years Defense Program. Let's just call him the Father of the FYDP, and leave it at that.

Who's behind it

HitchAI was founded in July 2026 by Kevin Brancato. Kevin believes strategic market intelligence should be in the hands of every defense and federal contractor — and that AI is making that possible.

Why work with Kevin

Ph.D. Economist — George Mason University
10 years at RAND — weapon-system costs & manpower management
10 years at Bloomberg Government — defense analysis & business-intelligence tools
5 years at TechnoMile — a next-generation Growth & Contracts platform

05 — Pricing

Intelligence that pays for itself.

Two ways to put HitchAI to work — the enterprise platform your whole team logs into, or a custom intelligence engagement scoped to a single decision. Both are built around you, so let's talk about the right fit.

Enterprise Platform

Your team's shared workspace for the federal market.

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enterprise-wide access · annual

1:1 onboarding + market walkthrough with the founder
Full platform
Ask Hitch — the built-in AI analyst
Saved searches & watchlists
Alerts
Enterprise-wide access
Priority support
MCP

Custom Intelligence

Bespoke analysis when the stakes are real.

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scoped per engagement

Reports & analyses — market sizing, competitor teardowns
Presentations — board-ready decks and briefings
Dashboards — live views of market and positioning
Databases — unique structured, queryable datasets
Data calls — fast, sourced answers to one-off strategic questions
Advisory — an analyst on call when the moment matters

06 — Get started

Book an intel call.

Thirty minutes with Kevin. Bring the market you want to own — leave with a read on where the signal is.

What to expect

A working session, not a sales pitch. Come with a question; we'll show you where the intelligence lives.

30 minGoogle Meet, screen-share ready
WhoKevin Brancato, founder
PrepName the market or program

Prefer email? Reach Kevin directly at kevin@hitchintel.com.