You know your indirect rates leak margin. You know that proposal is underpriced. You know DCAA is coming. What you don't have is a partner who acts with you in a regulatory environment where mistakes are expensive. That's Lineate.
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Most $3M–$30M contractors already own the tools and understand the rules. What stops them is the fear of getting it wrong in front of DCAA, a contracting officer, or a prime.
Indirect rates built years ago, now leaking margin on every invoice — but nobody wants to open that box before an audit.
Bids won at rates that can't carry the work, or lost because nobody could defend the cost volume with confidence.
DCAA readiness lives in one person's head. Every data call is a fire drill. Every FAR clause is a fresh search.
Curated signals from the audit, pricing, and policy landscape — the items we're flagging for clients this quarter.
Free tools built from the same models we use in engagements. No login. No gate.
Enter your labor and pools. Get your wrap rate, fully burdened cost, and margin at your bid rate — and find out if you're bidding underwater.
Fifteen questions mapped to SF1408 criteria. Score your accounting system's audit posture in five minutes — before DCAA scores it for you.
A discovery call is a working session, not a pitch. Bring your current indirect rates or an active pricing problem — you'll leave with at least one thing you can act on.
Book a discovery callEvery engagement runs on a proprietary library of GovCon-specific AI workflows — big-contractor rigor at small-contractor speed and cost.
Pricing strategy and cost volume development across FFP, cost-plus, and T&M — prime or sub — backed by $5B+ in led proposals.
Design, restructure, and defend your indirect rate pools. Provisional billing rates, incurred cost submissions, and accounting system readiness.
Program-level financial management drawn from $50M–$500M contract experience: EACs you can brief, cash forecasts you can trust.
Service Contract Act compliance, wage determination mapping, benefits design, and union negotiation support from someone who has sat at that table.
Three engagement levels, structured like your world: clear scope, clear rate, clear deliverables.
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Focus is the point. If you're outside this profile, we'll tell you on the first call and point you somewhere better.
No login. No gate. If the output raises a question you can't answer alone — that's what the discovery call is for.
Disclaimer: This calculator is an educational estimate using a simplified single-pool model. Actual indirect rate structures vary by pool design, allocation bases, and contract terms. Outputs are not accounting, pricing, or legal advice and should not be used directly in a proposal or billing without review by a qualified professional. Verify against your approved provisional rates.
Fifteen yes/no questions mapped to the criteria DCAA evaluates in an SF1408 pre-award accounting system survey. Answer honestly — nobody sees this but you.
Disclaimer: This scorecard is a self-assessment for educational purposes. It approximates, but does not replicate, the SF1408 evaluation and does not predict any audit outcome. It is not audit, accounting, or legal advice. For an actual readiness determination, consult a qualified GovCon accounting professional.
Disclaimer: Illustrative comparison only. Salary and load assumptions vary by market and role scope. A fractional engagement is part-time by design and is not a like-for-like replacement for every full-time CFO responsibility.
Written by a sitting GovCon finance executive — not a content team. What actually happens in floor checks, rate reviews, and pricing rooms.
I've spent 15+ years as the finance lead inside a DoD aerospace contractor — currently as CFO. I've led pricing on more than $5 billion in proposals across every major contract type, managed program finance on contracts from $50M to $500M, negotiated with the Machinists union, built benefits programs from scratch, and kept a DCAA-audited accounting system clean.
That matters because most fractional CFOs come from commercial finance and learn GovCon on your dime. I've already made the expensive mistakes on someone else's payroll — and built the systems that prevent them.
The AI layer isn't a gimmick. I've built a library of GovCon-specific AI workflows — rate modeling, cost volume drafting, compliance checking — that let one senior operator deliver what used to take a finance department. You pay for judgment; the machines handle the volume.
Lineate — from lineate: marked with lines. Rate structures, contract baselines, audit trails. We keep every line clean, defensible, and yours.
A discovery call is a working session, not a pitch. Bring your current indirect rates, a DCAA notice, or an active pricing problem — you'll leave with at least one thing you can act on, whether we work together or not.
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