DSS Nexus FAQs

DSS Nexus is an AI-enabled GovCon growth operating system that helps contractors find better opportunities, make disciplined pursuit decisions, build capture strategies, manage proposal readiness, identify partners, and track business impact.

It is built for small and mid-sized government contractors, capture teams, proposal teams, business-development leaders, owners, and advisory teams that need better pursuit discipline and measurable pipeline visibility.

It's an adaptive learning engine, not a static course library. It recommends learning paths based on your readiness score, capability-statement score, open proposal gaps, capture weaknesses, role, and subscription tier - and shows the upgrade path when a recommended track is above your plan. Recon unlocks Foundations, Capture unlocks team capture missions, and Command unlocks Proposal Command Center training, simulations, and executive operating routines.

Start in the Command Center, review the executive metrics, then open the Weekly Growth Plan. From there, review the top opportunities, partner recommendations, readiness gaps, and deadlines that need action this week.

Use them as decision support. BID means the opportunity appears worth direct pursuit. PARTNER means a subcontractor or teaming path is likely more realistic. WATCH means monitor until more evidence appears. DO NOT BID means preserve capacity unless a major fact changes.

Nexus informs the decision. You own it. Use the sources, confidence, and missing-data notes to make the final bid, pricing, compliance, and submission call.

Trust metadata helps users understand what sources and assumptions were used, what is missing, when the output was last reviewed, and where human verification is required.

Every Nexus answer carries a source badge, a confidence level, and citations where applicable, and it passes a response-policy check that flags unsupported or absolute claims. For pursuit decisions, the Proof Engine produces an evidence packet - source data, a transparent confidence blend and interval, rationale, risks, alternatives considered, citations with retrieval timestamps, and an audit trail - that you can export to Word. Nexus informs the decision. You own it.

The platform maps target agencies, NAICS, PSC, partner capabilities, relationship strength, fit score, trust signals, and prior teaming history so users can choose realistic prime/subcontractor strategies.

It generates proposal starter assets, summaries, management and technical approach language, compliance matrices, CO questions, and red-team review notes. Final proposal content should be reviewed and approved by qualified humans.

Use the Impact Log and ROI Engine to track hours saved, bad-fit bids avoided, partner meetings created, weighted pipeline, revenue won, proposal cost avoided, advisory requests, and subscription ROI.

Access requires an authenticated account. Every workspace is isolated at the database layer by row-level security, and the published Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and data-retention rules govern the Service.

Recon is $249 monthly or $2,400 annually for one seat, 250 routine actions, and 10 Decision-Grade Analyses each month. Capture is $899 monthly or $9,000 annually for five seats, 1,500 routine actions, and 40 analyses. Command is annual-only at $28,200 for 15 seats, 5,000 routine actions, and 125 analyses. Enterprise is contracted, starting at $75,000 annually.

Both. Every annual plan includes a report quota: Recon includes 2 standard reports/month, Capture includes 5 standard reports/month, and Command includes 10 standard plus 2 executive reports/month. One-time report purchases stay gated until Stripe report prices and fulfillment are proven end to end.

Live opportunity ingestion comes from SAM.gov (with an API key), and market/spend intelligence - obligations, incumbents, recompetes - comes from USAspending, which is live and keyless. Without a SAM key the app runs on seed opportunities plus live USAspending signals. The AI is grounded in this gov data when you ask market questions, and it routes time-sensitive/live questions to connectors instead of answering from static knowledge.

Sessions are signed (scrypt + HMAC), tenant data is scoped to your organization on the server (a session for one org can't read another's), and roles (owner/admin/member/viewer) gate sensitive actions. Billing is PCI-safe - card data is handled by Stripe, never stored by Nexus. Production hardening includes Postgres row-level security, dependency/CVE review, and a SOC 2 assurance path.