Pricing
Published, in full, on this page. No 'request pricing' wall — the way you'll read a federal program's eligibility, you can read what this costs.
Priced in the open. Sourced like everything else we show you.
Most federal-funding tools hide the number behind a sales call. We don't. Three tiers, one tool, the same standard of proof on the price as on the dossier — read it, compare it, and start free before you pay a dollar.
The short answer
Strategic Pursuit has three plans: Practice at $15,000/year (5 users, 30 dossier runs per month), Growth at $45,000/year (20 users, 150 runs per month, plus alerts and comparative dossiers), and Enterprise (custom pricing with SSO, a read-only API, and white-label). A no-credit-card 30-day trial gives 1 seat and 3 runs. Engagement Services are sold separately, $25,000–$100,000.
Annual or monthly billing. Cancel anytime from the Stripe customer portal. Same platform for cities, civil/AEC firms, and degree-granting institutions — segment-gated, so you only ever see and pay for the contest you're in.
Start here — no credit card
Run a real dossier before you decide anything.
The 30-day trial is the product, not a teaser. One seat, three full dossier runs — a real city or campus, real scored programs, real sources, the same tool a paying firm uses. No card, no auto-charge, no salesperson. When the trial ends, your saved dossiers stay readable; running new ones simply pauses until you choose a plan. You upgrade when the read earns it.
- 1 seat · 3 dossier runs · 30 days
- No credit card — nothing to cancel if you walk away
- Full citations, scoring, and PDF export on every trial run
- At day 30: saved dossiers remain; new runs resume the moment you pick a plan
You'll choose Cities or Universities on the way in — the tool adapts to your world.
- No per-seat policingseats are a ceiling, not a meter; share the tool across your whole team.
- Cancel anytimeself-serve in the Stripe customer portal; no retention call.
- No hidden overagesthe cap that matters is dossier runs per month, and it's printed on every card.
The plans
Three plans, in the open. The contest is just a different size.
Every tier includes the full AI read and the live congressional earmark feed. Pay annually for the budgeted, procurement-friendly line — about 17% less than twelve monthly charges — or pay month-to-month with no penalty. The cap that matters in practice is dossier runs per month, and it's printed on every card.
The plan and its caps are identical either way. Seats are a ceiling, not a meter — share the tool across your whole team.
Practice
For the two-person grants shop, the single-practice firm, the lean sponsored-programs office — one team, one tool.
$15,000/ year~17% less than paying monthlyOne engagement, one grant, one well-aimed pursuit it helps you secure, and the year is paid for several times over.
Start a 30-day trial- 5 named users
- 30 dossier runs per month
- Unlimited congressional earmark browser
- Print-grade PDF dossier export
- Full three-axis scoring + statutory citations on every run
- Email support · 2-business-day response
- Recommended
Growth
For the multi-office firm, the dedicated federal practice, the research office running a real portfolio — more runs, more seats, the strategic layer.
$45,000/ year~17% less than paying monthly150 dossiers a month is roughly 1,800 a year. Convert one engagement off them and the ROI floor is in the tens-to-one — arithmetic you can run yourself.
Start a 30-day trial- 20 named users
- 150 dossier runs per month
- Everything in Practice, plus:
- Saved client / institution portfolios· coming soon
- Earmark + opportunity alerts — Slack, MS Teams, email· coming soon
- Comparative dossiers — score entities side by side· coming soon
- Quarterly DuBois practice review
- Support · 1-business-day response
Saved portfolios, alerts, and comparative dossiers are on the Growth roadmap — we mark what's shipped and what's coming, never the reverse. Today Growth is the higher run and seat ceiling plus the quarterly DuBois review.
Enterprise
For ENR Top-100 firms, university systems, and DuBois strategic partners — the controls, scale, and procurement posture a large organization requires.
CustomScoped to your seats, run volume, and security requirements.When the tool has to clear your security office, plug into your stack, and carry your name — this is the tier built to survive procurement.
Talk to us- Unlimited users
- 500+ dossier runs per month
- Everything in Growth, plus:
- SSO — SAML / OIDC· coming soon
- Read-only API access· coming soon
- White-label dossier branding· coming soon
- Custom data integrations
- Dedicated customer success manager
- Negotiated uptime SLA · same-day support
SSO, the read-only API, and white-label are Enterprise capabilities on our near-term roadmap, scoped into your contract. We write the SLA, we don't slogan it.
Every tier includes the full AI read, all 205 federal programs across more than two dozen federal agencies, the live congressional earmark feed, and an official source behind every claim. Seat counts are a ceiling, not a per-seat charge. Run caps reset monthly. Prices shown in USD.
What you're actually comparing
The price isn't the cost. The wrong pursuit is the cost.
A thin team's scarcest asset isn't budget — it's the month it can only spend once. Price this tool against the week your analyst won't lose triaging, the longshot you won't draft, and the engagement or grant you position to win because you read the field first. That's the comparison that matters.
GovWin runs roughly $10,000–$50,000 a year; Bloomberg Government runs ~$5,000–$15,000 per seat per year (published industry ranges, not our claim to precision). Those tools hand everyone the same list and leave the verdict to you. Growth is $45,000/year for 20 seats — about $225 a seat per month — and it returns a scored, cited verdict, not another list.
A dedicated grant writer or a consulting retainer is real headcount and a quarterly deliverable you wait for. Strategic Pursuit doesn't replace them — it makes them higher-hit-rate, handing them an 8-minute cited read any time the field shifts instead of a report that's weeks old on arrival. The honest no-go also gives them cover to decline the longshots leadership keeps suggesting.
The status quo at most teams is free Grants.gov plus a spreadsheet plus hours of an analyst's time per pursuit. We don't put a stopwatch on your staff. Here's what the tool does: name one city or campus, and the AI hands back a ranked shortlist with the source behind every number — in about 8 minutes. It's work you'd otherwise assemble by hand across 15 federal data sources, done correctly the first time.
Run the floor yourself
Growth buys ~1,800 dossiers a year. Position one engagement or one grant per few hundred prepared pursuits — a conservative rate for a cited, scored pitch — and the return is many multiples of the subscription. We won't print a single ROI multiple as a fact, because your win rate is yours, not ours. We'll print the inputs and let you do the math.
These comparisons use published price ranges and conservative, illustrative assumptions. They are not a guarantee of return.
This product uses the Grants.gov API but is not endorsed or certified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Feature table
Every feature, every tier, including the blanks.
A real comparison shows what you don't get, too. A dash (—) means 'not in this tier' — no asterisks, no 'contact sales to find out.'
| Feature | Practice ($15K/yr) | Growth ($45K/yr) | Enterprise (Custom) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Named users per organization | 5 | 20 | Unlimited |
| Dossier runs per month | 30 | 150 | 500+ |
| Full 205-program federal catalog | Included | Included | Included |
| Three-axis scoring + statutory citations | Included | Included | Included |
| Congressional earmark browser | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Print-grade PDF dossier export | Included | Included | Included |
| Saved client / institution portfolios | — | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Earmark + opportunity alerts (Slack / Teams / email) | — | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Comparative dossiers (N entities) | — | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Quarterly DuBois practice review | — | Included | Included |
| SSO (SAML / OIDC) | — | — | Coming soon |
| Read-only API | — | — | Coming soon |
| White-label dossier branding | — | — | Coming soon |
| Custom data integrations | — | — | Included |
| Dedicated customer success manager | — | — | Included |
| Uptime SLA | — | — | Negotiated |
| Support response | 2 business days · email | 1 business day | Same day · dedicated |
Sign-in and integrations: Google sign-in is coming soon. Saved portfolios, alerts (Slack · Teams · email), comparative dossiers, SSO, the read-only API, and white-label are on the roadmap and marked “coming soon” above — not yet shipped. We mark what's shipped and what's coming the same way, never the reverse.
One price, two contests
The same tool. The contest is just a different size.
The price is identical because the standard of proof is identical — a clear verdict, with the official source behind every number. What changes is the language and the data your office sees. You pick your segment when you sign in, and the platform shows you only your world. A university office is never paying for city tooling; a city grants shop is never paying for research benchmarking.
Win more of what you chase. Pursue fewer.
Name a city — or your client's city — and the AI ranks the matched grant and formula programs on eligibility, fit, and how competitive you'd be, with the law behind each one, current application windows, the city's own hard evidence to anchor the story, and the lane most databases miss: nearby congressional earmark requests. Spoken in your language, because that's the contest you're in.
See how cities & firms use itCompete where your designations and research scale give you an advantage.
Name an institution and the AI scores a portfolio on eligibility, strategic fit, and how competitive you'd be: designation-based eligibility with each law cited, where your HERD research spending stands against your true Carnegie peer group, how concentrated your funding is in any one agency, and the EPSCoR / Title III openings rivals overlook. Built to steady a portfolio through the 2025–26 federal upheaval — not to fatten a search box.
See how institutions use itThe promise is a method you can verify, identical across both worlds: every program checked against the real law, every claim sourced and dated.
Sold separately — not a subscription tier
When you want the people, not just the tool.
Engagement Services is custom strategy work led by DuBois Company experts — federal funding strategy, fund-stacking analysis, and help building the application itself — with Strategic Pursuit doing the analysis underneath. It's the DuBois consulting work you already know, sharpened by the AI. Billed per engagement on an engagement letter, separate from any software subscription.
- Teams that want a strategy built, not just a dossier read
- Complex multi-program fund-stacking where sequencing decides the outcome
- Organizations standing up a federal practice and wanting a running start
A DuBois Company Practice
Billing & plan questions
Straight answers, before you ask sales.
01What's the difference between annual and monthly billing?
The plan, the seats, and the run cap are identical. Annual billing costs about 17% less than paying twelve monthly charges and gives finance the single, budgeted, procurement-friendly line most teams prefer. Monthly billing has no penalty beyond the price difference — choose it if your finance office wants the flexibility.
02Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Manage and cancel your subscription yourself from the Stripe customer portal — no retention call, no email-us-to-cancel. If you cancel, you keep access through the end of the period you've already paid for.
03What happens when the 30-day trial ends?
Nothing is auto-charged — the trial takes no credit card. Your saved dossiers stay readable after day 30. Running new dossiers pauses until you choose a plan; the moment you pick one, runs resume. You upgrade when the output earns it, not before.
04What exactly is a 'dossier run,' and what happens if I hit the monthly cap?
A run is one full entity analysis — name a city or institution, get the ranked, cited dossier. The cap (30 on Practice, 150 on Growth, 500+ on Enterprise) resets every month and is the only usage limit that matters in practice. There are no surprise overage charges; if you're consistently near the cap, that's the signal to move up a tier, and we'll tell you before you're blocked.
05Do you charge per seat?
No. Seats are a ceiling, not a meter — share the tool across your whole team up to the tier's count. We deliberately don't police per-seat usage; this work is bursty and team-shared.
06Is this the same product for cities and for universities? Am I paying for tools I won't use?
It's the same tool and the same price because the standard of proof is the same. But it's segment-gated: you choose Cities or Universities when you sign in, and you only ever see — and only ever pay against — your own world's language and data. A research office isn't paying for city earmark tooling, and a city grants shop isn't paying for research benchmarking.
07How do I know the AI won't hallucinate a program or a deadline and embarrass me?
Because the AI doesn't get to make up the answer. It checks every program against the real eligibility rules from the law — a population cap, a rural threshold, a designation requirement — and if you fail one, the program comes back ineligible no matter what. The numbers come straight from official federal databases, not the AI's memory. Every program shows its source and last-verified date; anything stale is flagged, and discontinued programs are never shown. You can check every claim before you ever cite it.
08Is the data current?
Most sources are pulled fresh every time you run a dossier; the rest are refreshed on a regular schedule, and the congressional earmark records are updated weekly from roughly 500 congressional sites. Anything unverified past 180 days carries a verify-with-agency note; past 365 days it can't be called a high-fit match. You see the last-verified date on every program — no guessing.
09Do you offer a discount for design partners or multi-year commitments?
Talk to us. We work with a limited set of design partners and have flexibility on multi-year Enterprise terms. The published prices on this page are the standard rates — honestly stated so you're never negotiating blind.
This product uses the Grants.gov API but is not endorsed or certified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Read the field free. Pay when the verdict earns it.
Three runs, one seat, thirty days, no card. Name one entity and see whether the read holds up to the scrutiny you'd put it through anyway.
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