For consultants marketing to agencies and primes
Capability Statement Generator From Your Bio
Paste your website text or bio, or drop a resume, an old deck or past proposals. Get one page, tailored versions, and nothing invented.
Free to start. No card needed.
- Version for a federal agency (example)Cloud migration and help desk support for federal regional officesLeads with the agency migration work · UEI and NAICS [from SAM.gov]
- Version for a prime contractor (example)A veteran-owned cloud migration lead for your next bidLeads with subcontract results and per-server pricing · CAGE [to confirm]
What you'll get
A one-page capability statement from your bio, tailored to each buyer
- One page built only from your own projects, results and wording
- A version for each buyer you name, or for an agency and a prime
- Every missing code, certification or figure listed for you to confirm
Before and after
What you've written in. One page out.
The founder's resume, and a 2023 pitch deck that says "Northpeak moves small agencies to the cloud". A project list: 38 servers migrated for a federal regional office as a subcontractor, with no unplanned downtime per the prime's reports. A help desk for 900 county staff since 2022. The deck mentions SDVOSB.
Capability statement: Northpeak Systems. Core competencies: Cloud migration for small federal offices. Help desk support for county and agency staff. Past performance: Federal regional office, subcontractor, 2023 to present. 38 servers moved to the cloud with no unplanned downtime, per the prime's monthly reports. Company data: UEI [from your SAM.gov registration]. CAGE code [to confirm]. Primary NAICS [to confirm]. SDVOSB [confirm your SBA certification]. To confirm before you send: Which NAICS codes are on your SAM.gov registration? May we name the county?
Every project and result comes from your files. Codes you didn't provide stay in brackets.
Why it works
How do you write a capability statement buyers actually read?
A capability statement generator turns what you have already written about your firm into the one page that government buyers and prime contractors ask for. River reads your website text, bio, resume, old deck or past proposals. Then it writes the five core elements in SBA's capabilities statement guide: core competencies, past performance, differentiators, company data and contact. Every project, customer and number comes from your material, and a table at the end shows the file each line came from.
Nothing is invented. Your UEI, CAGE code, NAICS codes and certifications appear only when your material states them. Otherwise they stay as bracketed placeholders, and the confirm list says where to find each one. River never adds a customer, a contract value or a result your files don't contain. A website claim that your project list contradicts goes on the confirm list, not the page. Tailored versions follow, because Norcal APEX Accelerator advises different versions for different buyers: one for each buyer you name, or by default an agency and a prime contractor.
Use it before an agency meeting or a matchmaking event, for a sources sought reply, or when your Small Business Search profile needs a statement to link. Drop up to ten files, or paste your About page. To fill in a layout yourself, start from the capability statement template, which has two worked examples. A finished project with no write-up yet makes weak past performance, so the case study generator can turn its final report into proof first. When an agency issues a full RFP, switch to the RFP response generator.
What lands in your doc
What's in your capability statement
- A one-line overview and two short sentences, written for the kind of buyer each version is for
- Three to six core competencies in your buyers' words, taken from work your material shows you doing
- Past performance with customer, prime or subcontract role, and a result only where your material states one
- Differentiators with their proof in the same line, such as a credential, a niche or a measured result
- A company data block where any UEI, CAGE code, NAICS code or certification you didn't provide stays bracketed
- A version for each target buyer, points to confirm, and a table showing where each line came from
How it works
From your bio to one page
Paste or drop
Paste your website text or bio, or drop a resume, an old deck or past proposals.
River reads everything
It reads all of it first, noting every project, customer, result, code and certification with its source.
Get your statement
One page lands in your doc, with tailored versions and every missing code left in brackets.
Confirm and send
Fill your codes from SAM.gov, confirm customer names and results, then save each version as a PDF.
How to write a capability statement by hand
Start with the buyer, not your company. Pick one agency or prime contractor and find out what it buys: its procurement forecast, its recent awards, and the NAICS codes on its past contracts. Then write one line saying what you deliver for that buyer. SBA's guide says to frame what you do in relation to what the customer buys, and to focus on how your capabilities meet their needs. A statement written for everyone reads like a brochure.
Next, list three to six core competencies in the buyer's own words, then the three past projects closest to their work. For each project, give the customer or a description of them, whether you were the prime or a subcontractor, what you did, and one result with how it was measured. Differentiators need proof in the same line: a number, a credential or a niche. "Experienced team" proves nothing, while "four of our nine consultants ran public permitting offices" gives a buyer a reason.
Last, the company data block. Copy your UEI, CAGE code and NAICS codes from your SAM.gov registration rather than from memory, and list only certifications you hold today. The UEI replaced the DUNS number in April 2022, so delete any DUNS line left from an old statement. Add one named contact with two ways to reach them. Fit everything on one page, save it as a PDF, and make a new version for each buyer.
Questions consultants ask
Common questions
What is a capability statement?
It is a one-page profile of a company's services, past projects, strengths, registration codes and contact details, used to market a business to government buyers and prime contractors. Buyers use it to decide whether to call you, so it works like a resume for the firm. You hand it over at meetings, send it with a sources sought reply, or link it from your SBS profile.
Will it make up my codes or certifications?
No. Your UEI, CAGE code, NAICS codes, certifications and contract vehicles appear only if your material states them, copied exactly. Anything missing becomes a bracketed placeholder, and the confirm list says where to find it, usually your SAM.gov registration or your SBA certification record. River also never adds a customer, a contract value or a result your files don't contain.
What are the tailored versions?
Each aims the same company at a different buyer, with a new opening line, reordered competencies and the closest past performance first. If your material names target buyers, such as three agencies for an industry day, River writes one for each, up to three. Otherwise it writes one for an agency and one for a prime contractor, or, without government work, a corporate client and a larger firm.
Can I use it if I've never had a government contract?
Yes. Commercial, nonprofit and subcontract projects all count as past performance, and SBA's guide notes that subcontract work can matter more to some buyers than work as the prime. River describes clients your material doesn't clear to name in general terms, such as "a regional hospital system", and puts naming permission on the confirm list.
What files can I drop in?
Up to ten at once: Word, PDF, text, CSV, Excel or PowerPoint. A resume, an old capability statement, a pitch deck, past proposals and a project list all work well together. River reads every file before it writes, and the table at the end of the doc shows which file each project, result and code came from.
Is my material kept private?
Whatever you drop stays in your own River space unless you choose to share it. River's privacy policy says uploads are never used to train AI models, and its AI providers are bound by their agreements with River not to train on them either. If an old proposal holds a client's confidential details, check that agreement before uploading it.
Is the capability statement generator free?
You can start free. The Free plan includes some AI usage and needs no credit card, and paid plans start at $14 a month on the pricing page. Your statement stays in your River space, so a later request, such as a version for a new agency, can use everything you already dropped in.
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Turn what you've already written into one page
Paste your About page or drop a resume or old deck. Codes and certifications stay blank until you confirm them.