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ClearedStack

Free · Open source · Runs in your browser · Revised November 2026

Free tools for the paperwork between you and a government contract.

ClearedStack is an open-source set of small, single-purpose tools for pricing, proposals and cyber compliance. Built for solo developers, veteran founders and small shops that would rather build than fill out forms.

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Section B · Supplies or services and prices

The five tool categories, listed as contract line items, each priced at zero dollars.
CLINDescriptionAmount
0001Pricing & cost accounting$0.00
0002Proposal & capture$0.00
0003Cybersecurity & compliance$0.00
0004Market research & small business$0.00
0005Tactical & DevSecOps$0.00
Total evaluated price$0.00

Firm-fixed-price · Period of performance: indefinite · Revised November 2026

Section C · Statement of work

18 tools across five areas, each one doing a single job.

Every tool is its own repository, so it can be audited, forked and self-hosted on its own. This site is the index. None is live yet. Each has a page that says what it will do and which regulation it is built from.

CLIN 0001

Pricing & cost accounting

Labor rates, indirect rates and price tables that hold up under FAR Part 31.

CLIN 0002

Proposal & capture

Take a solicitation apart and prove your response answers all of it.

CLIN 0003

Cybersecurity & compliance

NIST SP 800-171, CMMC and CUI handling, worked through one requirement at a time.

CLIN 0004

Market research & small business

Find the right codes, the right set-asides and the status you already qualify for.

CLIN 0005

Tactical & DevSecOps

Utilities for disconnected networks, where nothing can phone home.

Missing the one you need? The catalog grows by request and by contribution.

See the full catalog →

Section L · Instructions to offerors

The guides are ready now, and cover the same work by hand.

8 plain-language guides, in the order a first bid runs into them. Each one names its official sources and the month it was last checked, and the arithmetic is worked through with made-up numbers you can check by hand.

  1. 01Read a solicitation8 minHow a federal solicitation is laid out, which sections to read first and what to find before you decide to bid.
  2. 02Answer every requirement7 minTurn a solicitation into a numbered list of requirements, a compliance matrix, an outline and a page budget, so nothing is missed.
  3. 03Labor rates and wrap rates8 minHow a wage becomes a billing rate: direct and indirect costs, fringe, overhead, G&A and fee, with a worked example you can check by hand.
  4. 04Invoices and late payment interest7 minWhat makes an invoice proper, when the government’s payment is due and how Prompt Payment Act interest is worked out when it is late.
  5. 05Protecting government information9 minFCI and CUI, the security requirements that come with each, how NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC fit together, and how CUI is marked.
  6. 06STIGs, OSCAL and SBOMs7 minThree machine-readable formats that security compliance work runs on: what each one is, what is inside the file and how to check one.
  7. 07Working on disconnected networks7 minThe checks you run by hand when nothing can phone home: checksums, transfer manifests, certificates, lockfiles and image digests.
  8. 08Codes, registration and small business status9 minSAM registration, NAICS and PSC codes, size standards, the set-aside programs and what it means to be a nontraditional defense contractor.

All guides, including hosting your own copy →

Section H · Special contract requirements

Four terms that do not change.

H.1Free
No paywall, no ads, no subscription, no “contact sales”. The project takes in no revenue.
H.2Open source
MIT licensed. Read the code, check the math, fork it, host it yourself.
H.3Client-side
Tools run in your browser. Your rates, proposal text and system details stay on your machine. There is no backend to send them to.
H.4Independent
A personal project built from public sources. No affiliation with the Department of Defense or any agency.

Section F · Deliveries or performance

Where this is going.

  1. Phase 1 · NowThe free arsenalShip single-purpose tools one by one until small contractors keep this tab open all day.
  2. Phase 2The communityOpen the catalog to tools built by other engineers, practitioners, and veterans.
  3. Phase 3The institutionGrow the community into a lasting public alternative that can compete for the work directly.
Figure ClearedStack delivery roadmap across three phases.

  1. Phase 1 · Now

    The free arsenal

    Ship the catalog one tool at a time until this is the page a small contractor keeps open all day.

  2. Phase 2

    The community

    Open the catalog to tools written by other engineers, veterans and people who do this work for a living.

  3. Phase 3

    The institution

    Grow that community into something lasting that can compete for the work itself.

Section M · Evaluation factors

Read the gates and the scoring rubric →

How a tool gets here.

The plan is to look at tools that already exist for government-contracting paperwork, record what they do from public pages, screen each idea against five knockout gates, score it in public, and credit where it came from before building from the regulation. The whole process is written down under Platform.

  1. DiscoverFind candidate ideas.
  2. ObserveRead public pages only.
  3. Screen & scoreFive gates, 100-pt rubric.
  4. Owner decidesBuild, link, park, or reject.
  5. CreditWrite provenance note.
  6. BuildClean-room from public rule.
  7. ListLive in catalog.
Figure The path an idea follows from initial discovery to live listing in the catalog.

Built with Claude Code and Antigravity, reviewed by a person. Read our AI disclosure and verification guide.

Contribute

Rebuilding the same spreadsheet for every proposal? That is a tool.

If you have turned a regulation into a checklist, a formula or a script, it can help the next person skip the week you spent on it. Suggest a tool, or build one and add it to the catalog.

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