Questions, answered plainly

SAM.gov shows you the listing. InstantSam downloads the attachments on that listing, the PDFs and Word documents holding the Statement of Work, the submission instructions and the evaluation criteria, reads them in full, and gives you a structured briefing: scope, mandatory requirements, how bids are scored, risks, and a bid or no-bid read.

The same documents read a different way. It pulls out every place the solicitation says you shall submit something or must include something, and turns them into a list you can tick off. Each item carries the exact sentence it came from, so you can check it yourself, and anything that would make your offer non-responsive is marked. It uses one of your monthly document reviews.

A straight answer at the top of every solicitation: strong match, worth a look, or probably not. It comes from your company profile, the NAICS codes you work in and the set-aside statuses you hold, compared with what the notice asks for, plus how many days are left. The reasons are listed under the answer, so if it says probably not you can see which line decided it. It does not read the attachments, so it cannot judge whether you can do the work. It tells you whether you are allowed to bid and whether there is time.

A list of contracts in your NAICS codes, in the states you work in, that end between six and eighteen months from now. When a contract ends the work usually does not, so it gets bid again, and the incumbent is a matter of public record long before anything appears on SAM.gov. Large firms have capture teams who track exactly this. The radar is that list without the capture team. Six months is the near edge because inside that the solicitation has usually already posted, so it belongs in Search where you can bid on it. It is not a prediction: work gets extended, cancelled, consolidated or folded onto a contract vehicle. What is certain is the end date and who holds it.

Yes. Open a saved opportunity and upload the file. Upload it again after a revision and both are kept, numbered, with the newest on top and the older ones a tap away. Files are private to your team and each can be up to 25 MB. Deleting a version removes it for everyone on the team.

Your own list of companies you might bid with. When you open a solicitation, InstantSam shows who has been winning that kind of work from the public award record, and any of them can be saved as a partner in one tap. You can also add a company by hand. Each one carries a note only your team can see, and you can attach them to a bid as prime, sub or still talking. Nobody on the list is contacted, nobody is matched with you, and the app never says a company is looking for partners, because the data cannot support that claim. It is a record of who you know and who has already proved they can do the work.

Opportunities and contractor registrations come from SAM.gov. Award and spending history comes from USASpending.gov. Both are official federal sources. Opportunities are ingested continuously through the day, so the list stays current.

It is grounded in the documents themselves, it does not answer from general knowledge, and if something is not in the solicitation it says so rather than guessing. That said, it is a research assistant, not an authority. Always read the source solicitation before you submit a bid. See our terms for the formal version of that.

Then there is nothing to read, and InstantSam tells you so plainly instead of inventing an analysis. It does not cost you a review either. The same is true when the attachments turn out to be scanned images with no text in them.

Your first 3 AI document reviews, so you can see what a full read of a solicitation actually gives you before deciding anything. Then browsing every SAM.gov opportunity, advanced search and filters, the daily briefing on your home screen, saving opportunities and tracking them through a pipeline, and the deadline calendar. Free forever, no card required.

No. You get 3 once and they do not come back. They exist so you can see the output before paying for it, not as a small monthly allowance. Pro is 25 a month, shared with compliance checklists, and that one does reset on the 1st. A review is only spent when there was something to read, so a notice with no attachments costs you nothing.

AI Document Review and compliance checklists, 25 a month between them. The AI Bid Assistant. A fit assessment on every solicitation. Smart alerts by email and push, with a warning when an alert is catching far too much or nothing at all, and the matches those alerts find. Amendment watch and the daily digest. Certification renewal reminders. Award outcomes and what comparable work has paid. Officer Search and Business Search. Proposal files with versions, and a teaming partner list. $29.99 per month. Full breakdown on the pricing page.

Yes, and where you do it depends on where you bought it. If you subscribed on the website, cancel from your account page. If you subscribed inside the iPhone app, Apple handles it, so cancel from your Apple subscription settings. Either way you keep Pro through the period you already paid for, then drop back to Free. Your saved opportunities, searches and pipeline stay exactly where they are.

Document reviews and compliance checklists share one allowance, because both open and read the attachments. The counter resets on the 1st of each month, and Business raises it to 100 pooled across the team. Every other Pro feature keeps working when it runs out. If you consistently need more, tell us what you are working on.

Payments made on the website run through Stripe, and card details go to Stripe directly rather than to our servers. Purchases made inside the iPhone app are handled by Apple, and we never see the card at all.

Both. InstantSam is on the App Store and on Google Play. Create your account here on the web, then sign in on the app. There is a web version too, if you would rather work at a desk.

On iPhone you upgrade inside the app and Apple handles the payment. On Android the app sends you to your account page on this site, where the payment runs through Stripe. Both give you exactly the same Pro features.

No. Pro includes both email and push alerts, with no per-alert charge.

Yes. Saved opportunities, searches and the pipeline are shared across your team, so everyone sees the same bids and the same deadlines. The Business plan adds five seats, team management, and a compliance checklist your team can assign items on, so it is visible who is doing what before a submission.

No. InstantSam is an independent product with no affiliation with, or endorsement from, SAM.gov, the General Services Administration, or any federal agency. We use their public data.

We use it to run the product and nothing else. We do not sell it. You can email yourself everything we hold from inside the app, under More, and delete your question history from the same place. The privacy policy spells out exactly what is collected and who processes it.