Small businesses won $75.3B in government contracts — a hidden market for AI founders
MicahBerkley · x · 2026-09-25
- A mentor advises young AI founders to look past small VC seed rounds toward GSA and government set-aside contracts.
- Key data point: Small Disadvantaged Businesses captured $75.3 billion in prime contracts last year alone.
- The author built his own app to find and manage these contracts and showed it to skeptical entrepreneurs who assumed the market belonged only to Lockheed and Boeing.
- His pitch: an AI solution serving a city government beats serving 100 random SaaS users — B2G is a huge, overlooked niche for indie AI builders.
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