In fiscal 2025 the US government signed 5.3 million new contracts, about 14,600 a day, and committed $814 billion to the companies that won them. Every award goes on a public ledger with the winner's name, the agency, the amount and what the money is for.
Your next buyer, meanwhile, is asking a chatbot who to call. Half of B2B software buyers now start their research with an AI chatbot more often than with Google, G2 found this spring (opens in a new tab), up from 29% the year before.
Both are public, and both change every week. Runner reads them for you and tells you what to do next.
A contract award is a buyer with budget
When a company you watch wins a government contract, two things are true at once: it has budget it didn't have last week, and work it has to staff. The award says what the money is for, which tells you what to offer.
The ledger grows most years: $659 billion in fiscal 2021, $814 billion in fiscal 2025. Each award names its winner, so a company on your list turns up by name.
Runner reads the ledger every night
Switch on the Public contract awarded signal, and every night Runner checks the companies on your watchlist against USAspending.gov (opens in a new tab), the US government's own award ledger. A match lands in your signal inbox as one line: how much, from which agency, for what, with the award number and its public page, and your move: reach out while the budget is fresh.
It's careful on purpose. The name on the award has to be the company's name, legal dressing aside, so a search that finds "Apple Bank" when you watch "Apple" is dropped. Contracts only, because a grant is not won business. And nothing is read for a product that hasn't switched it on.
Half your buyers ask a chatbot first
G2 surveyed 1,076 B2B software buyers in March. 51% now start with an AI chatbot more often than with Google, and 71% use one somewhere in their research. And 69% chose a different vendor than they had planned because a chatbot recommended it.
The shortlist gets written before a buyer visits anyone's site. Being on it is the new first impression.
Four assistants, one score each
“If AI leaves you out of the response, the buyer may not even know you exist.” Tim Sanders, G2, in “The Answer Economy” (opens in a new tab)
Runner's AI visibility check asks the questions your buyers ask, "which companies do X in Y?", across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok. It tells you whether each one names you, at what position, and who it names instead.
When none of them names you, the report lists who they named, three at most, so you know who you're being compared with. Runner asks again every weekend, so you see what moved.
Read for you, decided by you
Both start from official sources: the government's own ledger and the assistants' own answers. Runner lets you add a paid data vendor later if you want more depth.
Both read only what you asked for. The award check looks at the companies on your watchlist and no others; the assistant check asks about your business and your offering, nothing more.
And a signal is attention, not permission. The row carries Monitor, Assign to me, Snooze and Dismiss, and nothing in it changes who can be emailed or called. Runner reads the public record so you can decide; it never decides for you.
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