Ask Firmenza, the AI assistant on every page

Signed in, it can also answer from the public status and expiration date of the registrations you watch, as our last read of the public SAM.gov record found them.

On a contract notice's page, Explain this notice describes that notice from the details it published, and says which ones it did not publish. Who may compete under a set-aside is referred to a free counselor, never judged.

The copilot has its own AI assistant, for the section you are on: using the copilot explains it.

Signed in, Answer preferences in the assistant's panel, or How the assistant answers you on your account page, offers a fixed list of choices. For the answer length: Standard, Short answers or More detail. Then four more: Explain each term in plain words, Put steps in a numbered list, I'm new to federal contracting, and I'm helping someone else with their business's registration.

These choices ask the AI assistant to change how it words its answers to you, not what they say. There is nothing to type: for each choice, a fixed sentence Firmenza wrote goes with your questions to the AI model provider. A change is saved as you make it, and the assistant can read it from your next question.

Clear my choices sets them back to the usual way. Your choices stay until you clear them, set them back to the defaults, or delete your account.

Firmenza does not save your conversation. It lives in the open browser tab, and it ends when you close the tab.

To answer, your questions go to Firmenza's AI model provider, after a pattern check that removes numbers written the way a tax identifier, a Social Security number or a bank account number usually is. A pattern check can miss a number written another way, so please do not put those numbers in a question. Firmenza's privacy page lists what goes with your questions.

The copilot's assistant is different: your questions there are kept with your worksheet.

It never signs in to SAM.gov or Login.gov, and never asks for your Login.gov credentials. It never enters, changes or submits anything in SAM.gov, and never renews a registration on its own.

It never sees, picks or suggests a certification answer. You make every certification yourself. When a question turns on size, affiliation, ownership, exclusions or lobbying, it explains the words and refers you to a free counselor or an attorney, like the card just below this guide.

It never quotes a price: a question about what Firmenza costs gets a link to the pricing page.