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Managing government contracts shouldn’t be a never-ending spreadsheet chore. R3 Contract Management is built from the ground up for GovCon — and now, it goes beyond tracking and compliance. With embedded AI and intelligent workflows, R3 starts doing the contract work for you. Whether it’s ingesting a new award, adding clauses with flowdowns, adding CLINS and SLINS with funding details, or creating new subcontracts, R3 AI delivers more than visibility — it executes and does the actual work. All of this happens inside a platform designed for how GovCon really works — with FAR/DFARS logic, secure collaboration, and My Contract Work dashboards that make life easier for everyone. It’s not just contract management. It’s contract execution — at scale, powered by AI.

TE Recruit™ is a modern recruiting platform for staffing agencies, executive search firms, and independent recruiters that need an applicant tracking system and CRM without unnecessary complexity. Built by Top Echelon, TE Recruit centralizes candidate records, company and contact data, job orders, communications, tasks, pipelines, and placement activity. Recruiters can manage business development and talent acquisition from the same system, while owners and managers gain clearer insight into activity, progress, and performance. The platform supports configurable workflows, email sequencing, resume parsing, job posting, sourcing, reporting, and automation that reduces repetitive work. AI People Search uses semantic technology to uncover relevant candidates across related experience, skills, and job titles rather than relying only on exact keywords. It complements traditional Boolean search and is available with TE Recruit Pro. TE Recruit connects with email, job boards, calling and texting providers, and other tools used across the recruiting technology stack. Pro customers can also use the open API to build custom integrations, exchange data between systems, and support more advanced workflows. Guided onboarding, training, and responsive customer support are included, helping teams implement the platform and adapt it as their recruiting business evolves. Firms can also add TE Network™, Top Echelon’s split-placement recruiter network. Its integrated Network Feed allows TE Recruit users to access shared candidates, additional job orders, and recruiter collaboration opportunities without leaving the ATS. TE Recruit is a strong fit for recruiting businesses seeking flexible technology, practical AI, connected workflows, reliable support, and more ways to t

Virtuoso QA is a secure, agentic test automation platform for any browser-based application. Touchstone, our agentic assurance layer, turns your business requirements into tests, then runs, fixes and maintains them as your application changes. More than thirty specialised agents author, generate, triage and self-heal your functional and end-to-end tests, while a deterministic engine executes every run and your team approves every decision that matters. Every release comes with evidence of what was tested, what changed and who approved it. Release Insights shows execution risk and requirement coverage across every journey, and teams can export an Evidence Report in minutes rather than assembling one over weeks. That makes the platform a natural fit for regulated industries like financial services, insurance, healthcare, the public sector and more. The mission is to set the standard of proof for software releases. AI generates software. Virtuoso QA generates the evidence to trust it.

D&B Hoovers is a sales intelligence and revenue workflow platform that helps organizations identify, prioritize, and act on buying signals. By combining trusted company and contact data with buyer intent, website engagement insights, trigger events, and AI-powered assistance, D&B Hoovers helps revenue teams uncover opportunities sooner and make more informed decisions throughout the sales cycle.   Built on the Dun & Bradstreet Data Cloud, D&B Hoovers provides comprehensive business intelligence, including company profiles, corporate family structures, decision-maker contacts, industry information, financial insights, company news, and market intelligence. Advanced search and segmentation capabilities allow users to identify high-potential accounts and build targeted prospect lists based on business characteristics, growth indicators, and buying signals.   D&B Hoovers integrates into existing sales and revenue workflows, helping teams reduce research time, prioritize outreach, monitor account activity, and engage buyers with greater relevance. Real-time business triggers and account intelligence help organizations understand changing customer needs, identify opportunities, and focus efforts on the accounts most likely to convert.   Whether supporting prospecting, account planning, pipeline generation, or revenue operations, D&B Hoovers provides the trusted intelligence and contextual insights needed to help teams work more efficiently and drive better business outcomes.

Coevera is an AI-native CRM and sales process platform for B2B sales organizations of 15 to 2,500 quota-carrying sellers — companies with a defined sales process, sales managers accountable for pipeline, and deals complex enough that consultation rather than transaction wins them. Formerly Pipeliner CRM, built since 2011 on one idea: a sales process should be visible, teachable and repeatable. Intelligence is the default state of the system, not a premium add-on. The platform is industry-agnostic; our strongest results have come from manufacturing, financial services, insurance, software, professional services, energy and mining. Sales leaders buy Coevera for a forecast they can defend. Sales operations teams buy it because it can be configured, changed and reported on without a dedicated administrator, outside consultants or a multi-year build. Reps use it because the pipeline is visual and the next step is obvious. Voyager AI — predictive deal and pipeline guidance in context, with native MCP so Coevera data is available to the AI tools your team already uses. Visual pipeline management — drag-and-drop pipelines, buying centers and relationship maps, so who is involved in a deal and what stage it is actually in are both visible. Guided selling — your stages, required activities and qualification criteria enforced in the flow of work rather than in a document. Automatizer — no-code workflow automation your own ops team builds and changes. Reporting and forecasting built in — no BI license required, with BI Feeder exporting to Tableau, Power BI and others when your analysts want the raw data. Three editions at three price points — $85, $115 and $150 per user per month.

Pylon's intuitive design software allows you to create accurate proposals from anywhere, in less than 2 minutes. Pylon is the only software that allows you to view high-resolution imagery within your app. Pylon's award winning 3D Solar Shading toolkit helps you identify and track shading impacts throughout the year. Pylon's load profile analysis and interval data analysis will help you and your team to better understand customer consumption patterns. Analyze load profiles & interval data. You can close more solar proposals by using interactive Web & PDF proposals and native eSignatures. Fully integrated solar CRM that integrates with your solar design software to convert proposals. Pylon Solar CRM offers 2-way SMS and email communications, team management, lead management and pre-made deal pipelines.

EXPEDIENCE AUTOMATES MICROSOFT WORD PROPOSALS Use Microsoft Word to craft business proposals, RFP responses, or Statements of Work (SOWs)? Expedience delivers unmatched efficiency, flawless branding consistency, and 100% document accuracy – without ever leaving Microsoft Word! THE MICROSOFT ADVANTAGE Native to Microsoft Word, Expedience leverages the best of Microsoft 365: • Use Rich Content (tables, charts, videos, PowerPoint slides, etc) • Consistent Corporate Branding • Copilot Generative AI • Excel Data Integration • Realtime Collaboration AUTOMATED SALES PROPOSALS & SOWs Create complete Microsoft Word document proposals, sales documents, and SOWs in just a few clicks - even from Excel spreadsheets! Consistent, accurate, and perfectly formatted every time. TRUSTED CONTENT Expedience stores your curated, branded, approved content in a library for quick reuse. This means that your team will have trusted content at their fingertips directly within Microsoft Word.

Planview AdaptiveWork, previously known as Clarizen, empowers PMOs and professional services teams of various sizes to achieve instant visibility across their operations, streamline workflows, proactively address potential risks, and enhance overall business outcomes. By aligning with the company’s strategic objectives, organizations can maximize workforce effectiveness, ensuring that teams concentrate on delivering the most critical tasks timely. It facilitates the tracking, management, and prioritization of work requests, guaranteeing that each request automatically encompasses all necessary information for execution. With bi-directional integration with your CRM and custom triggers in place, opportunity details can be effortlessly captured to aid in planning client projects. The platform automates and governs the various phases of the request lifecycle, including submission, scoring, prioritization, routing, and approval, thereby streamlining the pathway for converting requests into actionable projects, tasks, or work items. This comprehensive approach not only boosts efficiency but also fosters a culture of accountability and transparency within the organization.

Okyline is an Executable Data Design (EDD) platform focused on executable validation contracts and operational data quality control. Rather than managing separate specifications, validation code, tests, and monitoring dashboards, Okyline centralizes validation and quality supervision around a single readable executable contract acting as the operational reference for enterprise data flows. The same contract powers deterministic validation, advanced business invariant checks, multi-format execution, data quality gates, and historical quality analytics across APIs, events, files, LLM structured outputs, and distributed operational systems. Contracts are designed directly from annotated sample data, making validation rules immediately understandable for developers, architects, QA teams, and business analysts. The Community Edition includes the public specification, a free Java runtime engine, a Claude AI assistant for contract generation, and an online studio supporting executable JSON validation contracts and JSON Schema transpilation. The Enterprise Edition adds native validation for JSONL, XML, CSV, FIXED, and EDI flows together with operational quality dashboards and data quality gates, without requiring databases or centralized infrastructure.erprise Edition supports direct validation of JSON, JSONL, XML, CSV, FIXED, and EDI flows with operational quality dashboards and analytics, without databases.

Docmosis is a self-hosted or SaaS template-based document generation solution.  Integrate with custom-built software applications or popular third-party apps using the API. Create templates using MS Word or LibreOffice. Add plain-text placeholders to control: the insertion of text/images/tables; conditionally add/remove any content; perform calculations; loop over repeating data; format data/numbers and much more. Integrate with: Custom software built using Java, C#, Python, PHP, Ruby and more via a REST API; Low-code and no-code platforms like Appian, Bubble, Mendix, Outsystems; Third-party form builders or apps that can perform a webhook such as FormAssembly or Salesforce. Used by customers in Finance, Health, Legal, Education, Government, HR, Insurance, Logistics, and Manufacturing to generate customized letters invoices, proposals, contracts, statements, reports and more.