ChatGPT for Government Contractors: CLEATUS Joins the ChatGPT App Directory

Most government contractors already use ChatGPT every day. Today, the assistant your team is already comfortable with can do real GovCon work: find federal contracts, summarize solicitations, manage your pipeline, and draft proposals from your past performance. CLEATUS is officially live in the ChatGPT App Directory.

TL;DR

• CLEATUS is a ChatGPT app now. Add it in one click from the official ChatGPT App Directory. No URLs to paste, no setup files.
• Real contract data, not guesses. ChatGPT now searches across federal, state, local, and defense opportunities the way CLEATUS does, then ranks them against your company.
• From "interesting" to "in your pipeline" in one prompt. Discover opportunities, add pursuits, kick off proposal drafts, and run capture workflows without leaving the chat window.
• One CLEATUS account, two AI assistants. The same login powers our Claude.ai connector, so work you do in one shows up in the other.

ChatGPT for Government Contractors, Without the Prompt Engineering

Generic ChatGPT is great at writing. It is not great at knowing your business. Every time you open a fresh window to research a federal opportunity, you start from zero: paste in a solicitation, explain your past performance, hope the model does not invent a regulation that does not exist. We wrote about that problem in Stop Prompt Engineering, Start Winning Contracts.

The CLEATUS ChatGPT app fixes the data side without making your team learn a new tool. The assistant becomes the interface; CLEATUS becomes the source of truth for opportunities, pipeline, proposals, and past performance.

What You Can Ask CLEATUS Inside ChatGPT

Every example below is a prompt you can paste into ChatGPT verbatim once the app is installed.

Find Federal Contracts and Track Competitors

This is where most teams start.

• "Show me my top recommendations today." — the day's best AI-matched contracts, ranked against your company.
• "Find IT services contracts posted in the last 14 days." — a fresh search across federal and SLED sources.
• "Who are the top contractors winning Department of Defense awards right now?" — quick competitor scan.
• "Summarize my top recommendation in plain English." — a contract breakdown without opening the solicitation PDF.

Manage Your GovCon Pipeline

ChatGPT can read and update your pursuits.

• "What's in my pipeline right now and where do things stand?"
• "Add the most relevant new opportunity to my pipeline."
• "Move my most recent pursuit to the proposal stage."
• "Dismiss the recommendation I'm least interested in."

Run Workflows and Tasks

Capture work lives in the small stuff.

• "Create a task to draft the technical approach for my latest opportunity."
• "Mark all my overdue tasks from last week as done."
• "Run the proposal compliance check workflow on my latest opportunity."
• "Help me create a new workflow I can run on future opportunities."

Draft Proposals From Your Past Performance

Kick off a draft from chat and the work lands in your GovCon Copilot. The outline, win themes, and first pass at the technical volume come from your stored past performance and team resumes, not a generic template. Your proposal team picks it up in the web app the same way they pick up any other draft.

Set Up Alerts and Search Documents

• "Help me set up an email alert for new contracts that match my business."
• "Show me all my active alerts and what each one notifies me about."
• "Find documents related to my latest opportunity."
• "Summarize today's notifications I haven't read."

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How to Add CLEATUS to ChatGPT in Under a Minute

You do not need a developer.

1. Open ChatGPT.
2. Click the + icon in the prompt composer, choose Apps, and search for CLEATUS. (Or open Settings, then Apps and Connectors, then Browse apps.)
3. Click Add, sign in with your existing CLEATUS account, and pick which entity to scope the connection to.
4. First prompt to try: "Show me my top recommendations today."

If your organization has multiple CLEATUS entities, such as separate divisions, joint ventures, or advisor accounts, each one connects independently. ChatGPT sees only the entity you scope it to, and you can swap between them from the same Apps screen.

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ChatGPT With CLEATUS vs ChatGPT Alone

Generic ChatGPT can write a compliance matrix that looks correct, but it cannot tell you whether the actual solicitation requires a specific certification, security framework, or subcontracting plan, because it has not read the document. The CLEATUS app pulls the solicitation, reads it, and grounds every answer in the actual text.

Generic ChatGPT can suggest a list of teaming partners that sound plausible. The CLEATUS app searches our live Contractor Teaming index and returns companies that exist, filtered by the criteria that matter for your opportunity.

Generic ChatGPT drafts a "first pass" that reads like it was written by a different company entirely. The CLEATUS app drafts in your voice, using your past performance, your pricing history, and your win themes.

Same CLEATUS Account, Two AI Assistants

You do not have to choose between ChatGPT and Claude. CLEATUS works in both. Add a pursuit in ChatGPT, ask Claude about it five minutes later, and Claude sees the same record. Your team picks the assistant they already prefer.

Pick the Assistant Your Team Already Uses

We also have an active Zapier integration and GSA eBuy hooks. One CLEATUS account, every surface your team already lives in.

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What to Try First

Install the app and run these three prompts in order.

1. Get the Day's Best Federal Contract Matches

"Show me my top recommendations today." Confirms the connection is scoped to the right CLEATUS entity and gives you a useful artifact in under a minute: the day's best AI-matched contracts, ranked against your company profile.

2. See Your Pipeline From Chat

"What's in my pipeline right now and where do things stand?" Proves the assistant is reading your real pursuits, not making up plausible-sounding ones.

3. Add a Pursuit Without Leaving ChatGPT

"Add the most relevant new opportunity to my pipeline and create a task to draft the technical approach." The first action most teams run, and it walks you through the full add-a-pursuit flow.

If any of those feel wrong, the CLEATUS team wants to hear about it. The app is live and the surface area will keep growing.

Where to Read More

• Stop Prompt Engineering, Start Winning Contracts — why generic ChatGPT alone is not enough for GovCon work.
• Agentic AI in GovCon: A Practical Guide — how AI agents are reshaping capture and proposal work.
• 10 AI Prompts Every Government Contractor Should Know — the prompt library that works inside both ChatGPT and CLEATUS.
• Announcing the CLEATUS Zapier Integration — connect CLEATUS to the rest of your stack without code.

Customer Stories

• How D2 Government Solutions Tripled Growth Without Adding Staff
• How Operation Hired Achieved 6× Proposal Output with CLEATUS AI
• How MST Maritime Quadrupled Proposal Output with CLEATUS AI

Ready to try it?

ChatGPT users:

➡️ Add CLEATUS to ChatGPT — open the app directly in ChatGPT.

➡️ See the ChatGPT integration page — features, install steps, and example prompts.

Claude users:

➡️ See the Claude integration page — connect CLEATUS to Claude.ai in one click.

Don't have CLEATUS yet?

➡️ Start a free trial — your account works in both ChatGPT and Claude on day one.

About CLEATUS

CLEATUS is an AI platform for government contractors. We help GovCon teams find federal, state, local, and defense opportunities, analyze solicitations, track competitors, and draft proposals at a fraction of traditional capture costs. The same GovCon Copilot that powers our web app now powers your ChatGPT and Claude assistants too.