The SDVOSB federal AI delivery partner for federal primes.
Federal primes and integrators engage Encore as the SDVOSB technology subcontractor for federal AI delivery work. EFAIRA methodology, the Encore platform family, and the ACI substrate, available across three tiers of partnership.
Encore meets the SDVOSB small-business subcontracting requirement under FAR 19.702.
Federal prime contractors are required to subcontract a portion of federal contract value to verified small-business categories, including Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB). Encore Services LLC is a verified SDVOSB, VOSB, SDB, and MBE with a sixteen-year continuous federal operating record and an active federal AI platform portfolio. Engaging Encore as a technology subcontractor advances the prime’s SDVOSB subcontracting credit while delivering federal AI capability the prime would otherwise build internally.
- SDVOSB subcontracting credit under FAR 19.702 small-business subcontracting plans.
- Veteran-founded past performance on federal AI assessment and platform delivery.
- EFAIRA-as-a-service delivery on partner prime contracts requiring federal AI readiness assessment.
- Encore platform integration across the AcuSightPro, ECWS, and EADIE platforms where the partner’s federal customer requires it.
- Joint capture support on federal pursuits including technical content, methodology citations, and SDVOSB letter contributions.
Recognized. Subcontracting. Strategic Alliance.
Three tiers of federal channel partnership. Each tier is independently structurable. Partners can enter at any tier and graduate over time based on engagement velocity.
Encore Recognized Federal Partner
Federal consultancies, GovCon advisory firms, federal proposal shops, and single-shop federal AI advisors who recommend Encore methodologies to their federal clients.
Light-touch referral partnership. Partner recommends EFAIRA to their federal clients during AI procurement strategy work. Quarterly briefing call with Encore CTO on platform roadmap.
Fifteen percent revenue share on EFAIRA engagements the partner refers and closes through Encore. Paid quarterly. Tracked through a partner-attribution mechanism. Federal Program tier engagements are not subject to referral compensation under applicable procurement integrity restrictions.
Signed Recognized Partner Agreement. Completion of a sixty-minute EFAIRA methodology onboarding briefing. Acknowledgment of independence and federal-employee-exclusion provisions.
Co-branded Encore Recognized Federal Partner mark for partner websites, proposal materials, and capability briefs.
Encore Federal Subcontracting Partner
Federal prime contractors who engage Encore as a technology subcontractor on federal AI delivery work. Mid-tier integrators, large federal systems integrators, and federal-vertical practice leads at major consultancies.
Active subcontracting relationship. Encore delivers EFAIRA-as-a-service and Encore platform capability under partner prime contracts. Joint capture support. Joint past performance. Encore meets the partner’s SDVOSB small-business subcontracting credit under FAR 19.702.
Standard prime-subcontractor economics. Subcontract revenue flows to Encore at agreed rates per contract. No backend kickback. No equity entanglement. Termination on standard subcontract terms.
Signed Subcontracting Teaming Agreement (modeled on standard SDVOSB prime-subcontractor language). Mutual non-disclosure. Joint capture rhythm with partner federal practice leads.
Encore Federal Subcontracting Partner mark, including in partner proposal volumes and capability statements.
Encore Strategic Federal Alliance
Major federal consultancies and prime contractors committing to multi-year strategic engagement with Encore on federal AI delivery. Typically one or two alliances at most. Strategic alliances are negotiated, not applied for.
Multi-year strategic commitment. Joint go-to-market on specific federal verticals. Negotiated volume pricing on EFAIRA assessments. Quarterly joint executive review with Dr. Jeffrey A. Woodson and Encore senior engineering. Strategic input on EFAIRA methodology roadmap. First-look access to new Encore platforms before public release.
Negotiated per engagement. Typically combines subcontract revenue, volume-discounted assessment fees, and joint capture investment. Equity considerations excluded by default. Lucid Tech LLC retains all platform IP, customer relationships, and methodology ownership.
Multi-quarter negotiation. Executive sponsorship from both partner senior leadership and Encore senior leadership. Defined federal vertical scope. Mutual exclusivity provisions are negotiated, not assumed.
Encore Strategic Federal Alliance mark. Reserved for active alliances. Listed publicly on the Encore partner directory with partner consent.
The federal AI readiness assessor that also builds federal AI.
Most AI readiness assessment work in this space comes from consultancies that write reports about systems they did not build. The Encore methodology is applied by the same engineering practice that ships federal AI platforms. The Encore Contract Writing Suite (ECWS), AcuSightPro, the Encore Acquisition Intelligence Engine (EADIE), and the Adaptive Compound Intelligence (ACI) substrate are all active platform pursuits in the Encore portfolio. Partners engage Encore for delivery work that requires both methodology fluency and production engineering capability.
Encore is veteran-founded since 2010 with sixteen years of continuous federal operating record. The Adaptive Compound Intelligence framework was reviewed by Oxford University AI Program faculty as a fundamentally new category of intelligence architecture. The Encore federal AI patent portfolio is active and growing.
Engage Encore as your SDVOSB federal AI delivery partner.
Partner managers, federal practice leads, and federal capture leadership can engage Encore directly through the contact form. Initial conversations are scoped to the partner’s federal vertical, target pursuits, and SDVOSB subcontracting commitments.