Begin with the End in Mind: How to Win SBIR/STTR Funding
Your Phase I proposal is really a pitch for Phase III. Write it that way. How to pick topics, talk to the TPOC, and make your proposal a sales document.
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Begin with the End in Mind: Creating Your SBIR/STTR Proposal
A common proposal mistake and how to fix it. My 2026 Catalyst SBIR Success Workshop talk on planning Phase III first, plus reauthorization changes.
Exploring Transparency and AI Assessment in LLM-Assisted Research Applications
An LLM as research assistant for finding SBIR/STTR funding: embedding clusters measured against Latent Semantic Indexing, with a human in the loop.
Use of Large Language Model Embeddings to Predict Research Topic Suitability Based on Organizational Capabilities
Can LLM embeddings find SBIR topics that fit a team’s capabilities? Spectral clustering picked 3 of the 5 topics experts chose from 89. SoutheastCon 2024.
Begin with the End in Mind: Creating Your SBIR/STTR Proposal
A common proposal mistake and how to fix it. My Catalyst SBIR & STTR Summit 2020 talk on planning Phase III before writing your Phase I proposal.