The United States government buys more services than any customer on earth, and it publishes what it wants to buy, who it bought from, and what it paid. Most organizations never read any of it. The ones that win treat public funding as one connected system rather than two separate skills: finding work, and chasing it.

exists to teach that system to teams entering the market from outside it, and to put the current opportunity set in front of them while they learn it. Most courses are built from a written field guide and then turned into something you work through rather than watch. The master level is taught as a course only, because the decisions it covers are made by working through them. Do the exercises in order and you finish with a working U.S. pipeline, not a certificate of attendance.

Two pull jobs feed one board, both reading official public government databases. On the grant side, federal and state opportunities are screened from several thousand raw listings down to the actionable set, dropping anything whose deadline has already passed and anything that turns out to be a contract vehicle rather than assistance. On the contract side, federal notices are pulled by NAICS code across the categories Counter Pivot LLC works in. Both sets are then tagged against the same ten funding categories, which is what lets one category filter read across both markets at once. Every card links straight to its official listing, so any figure can be checked at the source.

They stay visibly separate on the board because they are separate instruments. A grant is assistance: you write a narrative to a program mission and a published scoring rubric. A contract is an acquisition under the Federal Acquisition Regulation: you respond to a statement of work, against a set-aside and a NAICS code, and price it. Filters that only mean something to one side (award ceiling, eligible applicant, set-aside, notice type) are grouped and labeled as such rather than quietly emptying the list.

The same sourcing rule applies to the board as to the curriculum, which means publishing its gaps. The finder prints its own last-pull dates, the number of raw hits it screened, which states it actually reached, which NAICS codes a daily rate limit cut short, and any feed that refused the request; SBIR/STTR is currently absent for exactly that reason. Contract counts are a floor, not a complete picture of what is open. Results flagged uncategorized matched no funding category cleanly and deserve a second look before they earn a bid decision. Nothing here replaces the official listing: confirm dates, eligibility, set-aside status and award figures at the source before you commit.