M Mindy for Government
For APEX Accelerators & the small businesses you serve
You prepare small businesses to compete.
We help public agencies discover them.
Together, we strengthen the public procurement marketplace.

APEX Accelerators make small businesses found-ready. Mindy makes agencies discovery-ready — helping them reach those qualified suppliers, including the new ones. We exist because you exist.

Now onboarding Two county governments are bringing Supplier Discovery to their live procurements — so the right small businesses get found on real requirements.
One mission. Two sides of the market.

The same goal, from both sides of the table.

Congress created the APEX Accelerators to grow the number of small businesses winning government contracts. That is the same number Mindy exists to move — through Supplier Discovery on the buyer's side.

APEX Accelerators

Make the supplier found-ready

Your 650+ counselors get a small business prepared to compete — one relationship at a time.

  • Registration & certifications
  • Bid reviews & capability statements
  • Market research & teaming
Mindy · Supplier Discovery

Make the agency discovery-ready

Mindy reads the public record so a buying office can discover qualified suppliers — including firms not already on file — on a specific requirement.

  • Supplier Discovery by capability
  • Surfaces firms the agency isn't reaching
  • Measures the change in competition
Our philosophy

A supplier that's ready is only half the equation. Discovery is the other half.

Why Discovery matters

From “hope they find it” to Supplier Discovery.

Publication makes a solicitation available. Supplier Discovery makes it found — by the qualified firms best positioned to deliver it.

Traditional procurement
Agency publishes the solicitation
Hope the right suppliers find it
Receive whatever bids arrive
The same incumbents bid. Competition stays flat.
Supplier Discovery
Agency publishes the solicitation
Qualified suppliers are identified
Suppliers discover the opportunity
More qualified competition
Better procurement outcomes.
Why this matters now

The supplier base is shrinking.

That's a problem for small businesses, procurement offices, and taxpayers alike. The count of small firms in the marketplace has fallen for years — even as small-business dollars rise. The money is concentrating among fewer suppliers.

−38%
small-business suppliers of common goods & services, 2010–2019
BPC 2021
−79%
new small-business entrants, 2005–2019
CSIS + SBA
28.4%
of FY23 dollars to small business — goal met, yet fewer firms
SBA Scorecard
Why we're studying this

The Mindy Institute exists to understand one question.

How can public agencies consistently reach more qualified suppliers?

We're not just building software — we're studying the problem, in public, and publishing what we find. Our research covers:

Competition Supplier Discovery Small-business participation Procurement intelligence
Read the research from the Mindy Institute →
How a counselor plugs in

You have the agency relationships. We bring Supplier Discovery.

01

Bring us an agency

A buying office you already work with that wants more qualified small-business competition on a real requirement.

02

We run a Supplier Discovery pilot

Mindy identifies qualified suppliers the agency's channels are missing — and measures the difference against a baseline.

03

Your clients get found

The ready suppliers you've been coaching become the firms an agency actually discovers — the outcome you exist to create.

The Founding 50

Fifty public buying organizations, helping establish how this should work.

Mindy is inviting an initial cohort of public buying organizations — cities, counties, transit authorities, school districts, state agencies — to help test and shape a better approach to supplier discovery, market research and procurement competition. The objective is not fifty software customers. It is fifty organizations helping establish better ways to understand and expand public procurement markets.

We are not claiming Mindy increases competition by some percentage, or saves agencies money, or guarantees more bids. We do not have that evidence yet. The Founding 50 exists partly to measure those questions — and participating organizations help us measure the effect.
STEP 1

Bring us a buyer

You already know procurement leadership at a city, county or district that wants more qualified bidders. Introduce us. That is the whole ask.

STEP 2

Mindy works the requirement

We work directly with the buying organization — market research, supplier discovery, competition analysis. No software for you to implement.

STEP 3

Your clients become discoverable

Qualified businesses — including the ones your counselors spent months getting ready — become part of the supplier market that buyer can see.

STEP 4

We measure what changed

Suppliers identified, small businesses reached, competition depth. Where the evidence is insufficient we say so rather than publish a number.

The ask

Bring us a buying organization.

You make suppliers found-ready. We will work the other side of the market. If you know a public buyer that wants more qualified small-business participation, introduce us — that is the entire contribution.

We will reach out to you first — never cold-contact the organization you name without your say-so.
Our mission

Every qualified small business deserves the opportunity to be discovered. Every public agency deserves access to the broadest possible supplier market. We're building the Supplier Discovery layer that connects the two.

Mindy is a program of GovCon Giants AI · not affiliated with or endorsed by the APEX Accelerators program