TALON evaluates your Government Contracting presence across 200+ criteria and tells you what Contracting Officers, teaming partners, and cleared talent actually see when they look you up.
No setup. No integration. Just the link to your site or a PDF.
200+ criteria covering everything from CAGE code visibility to clearance sponsorship signals to mobile responsiveness.
Not a vague report. Specific items ranked by impact, labeled by effort, broken out by which audience is affected.
Most companies optimize for one audience and unknowingly fail the other three. Your TALON score shows you a separate grade for each.
Government
Can they verify your CAGE, UEI, clearances, and past performance in under two minutes? Is there a downloadable Capability Statement? Can they find a named point of contact for your contract vehicle?
Primes & Small Business
What set-asides do you bring? What vehicles can they run task orders through? Is there a BD contact — not a generic inquiry form?
Candidates
Do you sponsor clearances — and say so explicitly? Are there real job listings with benefits and work arrangements stated? Does your company look like the next step in a serious career?
Market Signals
Are you showing up at the right conferences? Are you publishing anything? Do you look like a company with momentum?
Companies that cross the TALON readiness threshold are eligible for Forge — our DoD-native teaming matchmaker built specifically for USSOCOM and the broader defense small business ecosystem.
Forge is not a directory. It is not a database of SAM.gov registrations. It matches companies on what actually determines whether a team can compete: capability gaps, clearance depth, mission alignment, contract vehicles, and teaming archetypes.
The match means something — because not everyone gets in.
Your overall presence quality at a glance.
See where you are strong and where you are invisible.
The three things costing you the most credibility right now.
A taste of the depth behind the full evaluation.
You decide what to do next. We do not call you.
Full report, all 10 pillars, and the complete prioritized fix list are available with the Full Evaluation ($249) or any Forge membership.
Sixty seconds. No account required. Results in 48 hours.