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OnFrontiers
Techstars '16New York City, US · 153 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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OnFrontiers connects federal contractors and development organizations with vetted experts who have government sector experience, streamlining access to subject-matter expertise for proposal, capture, and delivery work. The platform also integrates AI workflows to embed expert knowledge into team processes.
Also known as OnFrontiers, Inc.
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026OnFrontiers is a New York-headquartered expert network and SaaS platform focused on government contracting. It connects federal contractors, consultancies and development organizations with vetted practitioners who have direct experience in government programs, agencies and acquisition, supporting work across capture, proposal and delivery phases. The platform matches experts to a specific deal, question or qualification requirement and supports engagements ranging from a single one-hour consultation to multi-month projects.
The product includes an expert marketplace alongside tooling for customers to build and manage their own "Enterprise Knowledge Networks" of go-to experts, with features for booking consultations, team and permission setup, credits and subscriptions, and integrations such as Microsoft Teams. Compliance controls relevant to government contracting — including FAR/DFARS considerations, organizational conflict of interest (OCI) checks on clients, confidentiality and NDA handling, and recording policies — are embedded in the platform. The company states it is also building expert knowledge into the AI workflows customer teams already use.
On the supply side, OnFrontiers recruits federal subject-matter experts across five stated categories: program SMEs, technical SMEs, contractor SMEs, agency SMEs (such as former SES and GS-14/15 officials) and acquisition SMEs (contracting officers, CORs/COTRs and acquisition policy counsel), as well as capture, proposal and business development consultants. Experts register, upload a CV and set their own hourly rate; OnFrontiers reviews credentials, builds an optimized profile and markets the expert to its contractor network, with payouts, rates and 1099 tax handling supported through the platform.
Business model
OnFrontiers runs a two-sided platform: client organizations purchase access to vetted experts through consultations and longer engagements, while experts set their own hourly rates and choose which projects to accept. The company also sells a SaaS product customers use to manage their internal networks of go-to experts (Enterprise Knowledge Networks) in addition to accessing the broader marketplace.
Client-side monetization is organized around credits, subscriptions and purchases for booking expert engagements, with experts paid out at rates they set and issued 1099s.
Traction
Company-reported figures include about 17,000 federally-focused subject-matter experts covering 1,300 agencies, more than 6,000 completed projects ranging from one-hour consultations to multi-month engagements, a 92% project success rate on projects involving more than 50 federal contractors, and a marketing reach described as a network of 40,000+ government contractors. A published case study describes OnFrontiers supporting Tantus in winning an HHS contract.
Latest developments
The company is extending its expert network into AI workflows used by customer teams and is recruiting for an AI-first full-stack software engineering role. Recent published content covers reducing friction in GovCon capture strategy, a Tantus HHS contract win, and guidance for former federal employees on monetizing government expertise.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
The company describes itself as the first and largest expert network for federal contractors, citing roughly 17,000 federally-focused SMEs covering 1,300 agencies and more than 6,000 completed projects.
OnFrontiers positions itself as the first and largest expert network dedicated to federal contractors, emphasizing depth of coverage across agencies, flexible engagement lengths, vetting and OCI checks on clients, and GovCon compliance standards built into the platform rather than handled outside it.
Technology
The platform is built with Python/Django and Golang on the backend, JavaScript with React, Redux and Material UI on the front end, and MySQL, SQL and Elasticsearch for data, with Terraform for infrastructure. Operating tools include Salesforce, Intercom, Streak, Google Analytics, MailChimp, SendGrid, InVision, Pivotal Tracker, ZoomInfo and WordPress. The company describes AI-powered matching of experts to client needs and is hiring for AI-first full-stack engineering.
Go-to-market
The company markets through its website with a demo request flow for prospective client organizations, publishes customer-outcome content (for example a case study on helping Tantus win an HHS contract) and content aimed at former government personnel seeking consulting work, and recruits experts directly via an apply-and-upload-CV onboarding path and a referral program.
Federal contractors (including prime contractors), consultancies and international development organizations whose teams need expertise for capture, proposal and delivery work; on the supply side, current and former government program managers, technologists, senior agency leaders and acquisition professionals, plus capture and proposal consultants.
Geography
Headquartered in New York City with a hybrid workplace model and remote roles in the United States; the client base is focused on U.S. federal contracting, alongside development organizations.
History
Built In NYC lists OnFrontiers, Inc. as founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with 9 total employees. Its stated mission is to enable a world in which experts play a more meaningful and elevated role in the work of any business, originally framed around knowledge networks for distributed businesses and more recently centered on government contracting and embedding expertise into AI workflows.
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Key figures
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Frequently asked questions
- What does OnFrontiers do?
- OnFrontiers operates an expert network connecting federal contractors and development organizations with vetted government subject-matter experts.
- Who are OnFrontiers's investors?
- OnFrontiers's investors include Techstars.
- Where is OnFrontiers headquartered?
- OnFrontiers is headquartered in New York City, US.