Always-on AI grant
navigation for small
U.S. shipyards.
Hawsepilot keeps a continuous watch over MARAD Small Shipyard Grant NOFOs, NOAA ship acquisition notices, and USCG and U.S. Navy vessel solicitations the moment they appear on SAM.gov and grants.gov. When one matches your yard, the full application package — narrative, capabilities statement, budget justification, forms-ready submission — is drafted around the clock.
- MARAD applications drafted
- 33
- Awards secured
- 29
- Shipyard clients served
- 18
- Practice tenure
- since 2012
The workflow
How a watch turns into a submitted application.
The same four artifacts a senior consultant prepares by hand — produced continuously, against every relevant funding window.
Continuous monitoring
A standing watch over MARAD Small Shipyard Grants, NOAA ship acquisition notices, USCG solicitations and Navy vessel purchases as they appear on SAM.gov and grants.gov — not an annual scan.
Always-current eligibility
Each qualified yard’s profile (size, facility count, vessel class) stays current in the system, so the filter never guesses wrong when a NOFO drops.
Full application packages, around the clock
On a match, the system drafts the project narrative, capabilities statement, budget justification and forms-ready submission — the four artifacts a traditional consultancy prepares by hand.
Sources monitored
Four agencies. One continuous watch.
A small U.S. shipyard typically qualifies across more than one of these programs in a given year — but only the yards tracking them continuously catch every window.
Listings are pulled from SAM.gov, grants.gov, and agency forecast pages. Source set expands as new funding windows open for the maritime industrial base.
Eligibility
The narrow MARAD rule, and what else your yard may qualify for.
Roughly two hundred U.S. shipyards are eligible under MARAD’s small-shipyard definition. NOAA, USCG, and Navy solicitations open additional doors based on vessel class and facility capability — Hawsepilot keeps the full filter current so none of them close quietly.
Built by
A naval architect who has filed this paperwork by hand, until now.
Hawsepilot is built around the practice of Carl Setterstrom — a naval architect whose prior consultancy produced 33 MARAD applications and 29 awards across 18 shipyard clients since 2012.
That domain expertise — how a small yard’s profile aligns to a narrow MARAD rule, how a narrative has to read in front of a reviewer, where a budget has to hold up — is embedded directly in Hawsepilot’s drafting pipeline. The output is not a generic grant template. It is the same work product a yard would have paid a senior consultant to produce, run on a continuous cadence across every agency the yard can approach.
Bring Hawsepilot aboard
Stop tracking NOFOs by hand. Start applying on a multi-agency cadence.
Tell us about your yard — facility size, vessel class, the work you do. We’ll configure a watch that fits your eligibility and surface the next funding windows before their deadlines.
Replies within one business day. Subscription terms and onboarding shared on first contact — no proposal theatre.