AI Coaching for GovCon Leaders

This page explains how I help GovCon leaders use AI to reclaim their time: how coaching works, what to expect, and whether it's right for you.

If we've already talked and you're ready to get started, book your free session here. Otherwise, keep reading.

You didn't start a company to live inside Gmail or Google Docs.

You started it to win contracts. To build systems that agencies actually depend on. To have freedom and ownership over your own future.

But now your days look like this: wake up, open laptop, put out fires, answer emails, write proposals, chase deadlines, go to bed exhausted, repeat. You're supposed to be running a technical services firm, but instead you're buried in documents. The business doesn't run without you. Every decision flows through your brain. Every draft comes from your hands.

You're not running the company anymore. You're chasing it.

And the worst part? You know you're capable of more. You're technical. You're smart. You understand your market better than anyone. You've won contracts against bigger competitors. You've built something real in an industry that chews people up.

But none of that matters when you're buried in proposals until midnight.

It doesn't have to be this way.

You've probably already tried AI.

You opened ChatGPT. Maybe Claude. You asked it to help with a proposal or draft an email.

And what came back was... fine. Generic. Stiff. The kind of writing people now call "AI slop."

So you made a reasonable conclusion: interesting technology, not ready for real work.

Here's what almost nobody realizes: AI didn't fail you. The approach failed you.

AI is a power tool. There's a gap between owning it and knowing how to use it. The difference between "AI that wastes your time" and "AI that runs parts of your business" is knowing how to work with it.

Right now, almost nobody knows how. Which means the people who figure it out first have an enormous advantage.

The tools available today, especially the ones I will show you, are not what you tried six months ago. They've crossed a line.

They can read a hundred-page RFP in minutes and extract every requirement. They can compare new opportunities against your past proposals and past performance. They can draft technical approaches section by section, matching your solution architecture to exactly what the government asked for. They can summarize long email threads and surface what matters. They can build small automations that would have required a developer two years ago.

And you don't need any specialized tools. Just one subscription, as low as $20/month, and the right methods.

The dream of AI doing your work for you, the thing that sounded like science fiction five years ago, is real now. It's not a demo. It's not a gimmick. It's happening every day for the people who know how to use it. Most people just don't realize it yet.

That's what I'm going to show you.

But here's what really matters:

The shift isn't about doing work faster. It's about assigning work instead of doing work.

Right now, you personally execute almost everything. You're the bottleneck. The business can only grow as fast as your hands can type.

What AI offers, when used correctly, is the ability to hand off work the way a manager hands work to a team. You assign. It executes. You review. You move on.

That's how the people who are best at using AI already operate. Their days aren't frantic. They spend their time on decisions and relationships and strategy instead of grinding through documents until their eyes blur.

You might already believe AI can do this. You've seen the demos.

But you're also thinking: I don't have time to figure this out. I'm already overloaded. I can't spend weeks experimenting.

Those concerns are valid. They're exactly why most leaders never make the leap.

And here's the truth: you're not going to learn this from a course. Or YouTube. Or a book.

Those resources teach general principles and example use cases that don't match your business. Then they leave you alone to figure out how to apply any of it.

You sit there staring at Claude thinking, "now what do I actually type?"

Then you get busy. Then you forget. Then three months later you're still doing everything manually.

This isn't a knowledge problem. It's an implementation problem.

You don't need more information about AI. You need someone to show you, on your real work, with your real documents, exactly how to make it happen.

That's what I do. I work with GovCon executives one-on-one and teach them how to actually use AI on their real work. Not theory. Not demos. Implementation.

I only work 1:1

Your proposals don't look like anyone else's. Your clients don't communicate like anyone else's. Your workflows, your pain points, your bottlenecks: they're yours. Generic advice can't solve specific problems.

Here's what happens: we start with your week. Your actual inbox. Your actual RFPs. Your actual documents. We look at where your time goes and build systems around those exact pressure points.

You bring the work you were going to do anyway. We do it together using AI. You learn by doing.

By the end, you don't need me anymore. You've built the skill. You've internalized the patterns. You can do this yourself, forever.

That's what I'm selling. Not ongoing dependency. The ability to work this way permanently, without me.

Example

Let me make this concrete.

A new RFP lands on your desk. Normally you'd spend the week reading requirements, outlining your technical approach, digging through old proposals, writing from scratch, editing late into the night. Every proposal feels like starting over.

With the right workflow: you drop the RFP into Claude. Within minutes, it extracts every requirement, builds a compliant outline, matches sections to your past performance, and generates a strong first draft. Instead of working until midnight Friday, you're reviewing polished material by Wednesday morning. That's two days back. Every single proposal.

But here's the thing: proposals are just one application. The same skill works everywhere. Compliance documentation. Client emails that take forever to write. Research you've been putting off. Internal processes you've never had time to systematize. Once you learn how to work with AI, you start seeing opportunities in everything. Whatever eats your time becomes a candidate for delegation.

How it works

We meet weekly for a focused session. You bring whatever's eating your time that week: a proposal, a compliance doc, an inbox disaster. We work on it together using AI. I show you the prompts, the workflows, the patterns. You do the work. You build muscle memory.

Between sessions, you implement. When you get stuck, you reach out. I will help you troubleshoot.

After a few weeks, something shifts. It becomes automatic. You start seeing opportunities everywhere.

And here's the thing: once you've worked with me, you have a direct line to me forever. Six months from now, you hit a wall on something new? Just reach out. A year later, you want to think through how to apply AI to a different part of your business? I'm there. You're not just paying for sessions. You're getting permanent access to someone who knows your business and can help whenever you need it.

Pricing

1:1 Coaching is $500/week, or $1,500/month ($2,000 value). No long contracts. Stay as long as it's useful. Stop when you've learned what you need. I've worked with people anywhere between 2 to 3 months.

Have a team member or a friend who'd benefit? If they sign up, you both get $100 off your next month. Bring a few friends and your coaching could pay for itself, up to $300 off per month.

I don't sell courses or digital products. Hands-on coaching is the only way to actually get fluent fast, and people tell me they enjoy the sessions too.

Why not done-for-you software?

You could buy a certified GovCon AI tool from a vendor. They cost thousands per year, require constant maintenance, and lock you into their system. But here's what I've seen over and over: people buy them and never use them. They don't know how, or they don't have time to learn the interface, so the software just sits there. You're paying for a tool you don't touch.

I'd rather teach you to do it yourself with simple software. Everything those expensive systems can do, you can do for $20/month, and you'll actually use it because you'll know how. No vendor lock-in. No maintenance. Just skill.

Why me

In 2025 alone, I spent 500+ hours working directly with hundreds of GovCon founders and leaders—IT modernization shops, DevSecOps firms, cloud migration specialists—companies ranging from $1M to $100M in revenue, on how to use AI to leverage themselves and their teams.

For some, I built full AI operating systems done-for-you. For others, I taught them the methods hands-on. One founder running at $8M/year cut their proposal turnaround from two weeks to two days, saving 40+ hours per proposal, with legitimately $20 worth of software expenses. The most ambitious clients I've worked with now run multiple AI agents in parallel, getting work done while they're away from their desk.

Some of them actually take weekends off now.

I've been in AI for almost a decade, five years before ChatGPT existed. In 2021, I built and sold an AI-enabled degree auditing company to the University of Pittsburgh.

This isn't theory for me. It's what I do.

Start with a free one-hour session

Not a sales call. A real working session.

We'll walk through your actual workflows. We'll identify where your time disappears. We'll test AI on real documents together. By the end of that hour, you'll know exactly what's possible.

No pressure. Just clarity. Schedule your free session here.

Got questions? Feel free to reach out at tanmai@tanmai.org.