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Upload your incurred cost submission and get a structured review against FAR Part 31, CAS, and the DCAA Contract Audit Manual — pool methodology, allocation bases, sensitive accounts, rate math — with cited findings, exposure estimates, and a draft narrative your team can paste into a response. Three minutes. Starting at $99/month.
The GovCon Advisor serves the people who carry compliance work day to day — and the firms that carry it for them.
→ Mid-market CFOs and Controllers running ongoing audit prep
You're at a $20M–$200M GovCon contractor with active DCAA exposure, a real audit cycle, and a finance team that owns indirect rate integrity. You want a senior-level review on every submission without standing up an internal GCAS function or paying advisory rates on routine work.
→ Compliance and subcontract teams inside larger primes
You sit inside a Tier 1 or Tier 2 prime, you own a piece of the compliance picture — subcontractor cost analysis, indirect rate monitoring, internal pre-audit — and you need a diagnostic layer that runs faster than your existing process.
→ Small and fast-growing GovCon CFOs
You're at a $5M–$20M contractor, you don't have a controller yet, and you're carrying the GovCon compliance load yourself. You need a senior-level review you can trust without billing $400/hour for work you should be able to self-serve.
→ CPA and consulting firms with a GovCon practice
You serve mid-market and small GovCon contractors, you run multiple ICS reviews a year, and your team's senior judgment is better spent on findings interpretation than on first-pass document review. IndirectIQ runs the diagnostic; your seniors run the engagement. Tenant-isolated workspaces per client, repeatable across the roster.
→ A Tier 1 prime with a full GCAS function in-house
You have senior compliance staff, established Big Four advisory relationships, and integrated systems. You need a different category of tool — one that sits inside your existing workflow.
→ Looking for an ICS authoring tool
The GovCon Advisor reviews submissions you've already prepared — it doesn't build them from your general ledger. (Yet.)
→ A government contracting officer or DCAA auditor
The platform is built for contractor-side use. Government users should look at DCAA's internal tools.
You upload your incurred cost submission. Claude walks every schedule against FAR Part 31, CAS, and the DCAA Contract Audit Manual — pool methodology, allocation bases, sensitive accounts, rate math. Your team gets cited findings, exposure estimates, and a draft narrative your team can paste into a DCAA response. Most engagements complete in under three minutes.
Pool methodology, base allocations, and rate calculations evaluated against FAR Part 31 and CAS.
Audit readiness scoring with prioritized findings, exposure estimates, and a copyable narrative draft.
Color-coded severity for every finding — critical, high, moderate, informational — with a single bottom-line risk score.
Every IndirectIQ Quick analysis returns a structured report with cited findings, severity ratings, exposure estimates, and a draft narrative. Below: an illustrative preview of findings the platform commonly surfaces. Actual findings cite specific schedule cells from your submission.
Schedule H presents $847,000 in travel costs as a single line item without segregation between allowable transportation, lodging, and per diem versus unallowable first-class airfare, spousal travel, and entertainment. FAR 31.205-46 requires contractors to maintain documentation supporting the allowability of each travel cost element. Without segregation, the entire pool is at risk in audit.
Estimated questioned cost exposure: $42,000–$85,000 (5–10% of pool)
Recommended action: Reconstruct travel detail with allowable / unallowable segregation. Provide supporting receipts and trip purpose for any item above $500.
Schedule G includes $124,500 in costs labeled "Marketing & Brand Development" and "Trade Show Sponsorship" allocated through the G&A pool. FAR 31.205-1(f) expressly prohibits allowability of public relations and advertising costs whose primary purpose is promoting the contractor's name, products, or image. These costs are subject to the FAR 42.709 penalty for expressly unallowable costs included in a final indirect cost rate proposal.
Estimated questioned cost exposure: $124,500 plus FAR 42.709 penalty (potentially equal to disallowed amount)
Recommended action: Reclassify to an unallowable cost account before submission. Review prior fiscal years for the same pattern; FAR 42.709 penalties apply per occurrence.
Cancel anytime. All plans include unlimited document storage, tenant-isolated workspaces, and Walter — our built-in GovCon advisor chat.
Annual plans bill once for the full year and save you two months. Need more than 30 contractors? Contact us for a custom plan.
The honest answers. If your question isn't here, ask Walter once you're in the platform — or email us.
Yes, AI can fabricate FAR citations, miss findings, or be too aggressive. That's why we (a) cite specific FAR/CAS sections so you can verify, (b) add disclaimer language to every output reminding you to confirm with your CPA or DCAA contact before submitting, and (c) have former DCAA auditors actively reviewing outputs in beta to tighten the prompts. Treat IndirectIQ as a senior analyst's first draft, not a final submission.
No. We use Anthropic's Claude API; uploaded documents are sent for analysis and not retained for training. We're moving to AWS Bedrock + Zero Data Retention as part of our security roadmap, which adds a contractual no-train-no-retain guarantee. Documents you upload stay in your encrypted Supabase storage; only your team sees them.
No, and we never claim it is. The platform is built by people with DCAA audit experience and follows the procedures DCAA's CAM (Contract Audit Manual) Chapter 6 lays out, but no AI tool is or can be "DCAA-approved" — DCAA approves accounting systems and submissions, not third-party software.
It's not a replacement for a senior consultant when stakes are high — they bring judgment, relationships, and accountability the platform can't. What it does is dramatically lower the cost of a first-pass review. Catch the obvious issues before paying for consultant hours; use the consultant for the genuinely hard questions.
Excel (.xlsx, .xlsm) for ICS workbooks and rate buildups. PDF for narrative documents, signed certificates (Schedule N), audited financials, and supporting attachments. Up to 50MB per file. Pre-Submission Review accepts bulk-drops of mixed PDF/Excel for the full document checklist.
Sign up, name your workspace, drop your first document. The first analysis returns in 2-3 minutes for a typical ICS. No procurement call required.
Yes. Cancel from your billing settings; the subscription continues through the end of the current period and then stops. No partial refunds for the current month, and no questions asked. Your data stays accessible during a 30-day grace period before deletion.
Every paid plan includes Walter, our built-in GovCon advisor chat. Walter is trained on FAR Part 31, DCAA CAM Chapter 6, DFARS 252.242-7006, and the relevant CAS standards — ask him to explain a specific finding, cite a regulation, or sanity-check your reading. For deeper questions, we maintain a referral list of DCAA-experienced consultants.
We'll email you when production billing and the full Pre-Submission flow go live. No drip, no spam — one email when we're ready.