People who work with government spend a surprising share of their week on the same questions. Can I accept this lunch? Can I post this? What does this solicitation actually require? Which contracts in our lane end next year? The answers live in the CFR, the FAR and USAspending, and finding them takes time most people don’t have.
Today we’re opening a gallery of free tools that answer those questions in minutes. Each one opens with a worked example, so you see what it does before you type anything. Each answer cites the rule or the record it rests on. And a person always makes the final call: the tool does the first pass, you apply your judgment.
What’s in the gallery
Ethics and Conduct
Gift Check
Can I accept this, or can I offer it? A yes, a no or an “only if” under 5 CFR 2635, from either side of the gift.
Ethics and Conduct
Hatch Act Check
Can I post this, give to this, or run for this? For federal, further restricted, state and local employees, and contractors.
Winning Contracts
RFP Shredder
Every shall, must and will in a solicitation as a compliance matrix, with due dates, page limits and format rules pulled to the top.
Winning Contracts
Proposal Compliance Check
Your draft against the solicitation: each requirement Answered, Thin or Missing, with the page that answers it.
Winning Contracts
Recompete Radar
Federal contracts in your NAICS code ending in the next 6 to 24 months, with the incumbent, from USAspending.
Winning Contracts
Regulatory Horizon Scan
The FAR Overhaul, CMMC, the CUI rule and the rest on one timeline, filtered to your business, each with its status and its source.
Buying
Market Research Report
A FAR Part 10 report with commercial, rule-of-two and threshold conclusions, ready for Word.
Writing
Plain-Language Grader
The reading grade of a notice or letter, the sentences to fix first, and plain swaps for wordy phrases.
Use them in the AI you already have
Most government AI platforms can’t add outside tools, so every tool comes with paste-in instructions. Copy them into GenAI.mil, USAi or your agency’s own assistant, and it applies the same rules the page does, with no connection to us.
Where your AI does take connectors, a free account gives you a personal link. Add it to Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot Studio, and those assistants call the tools for you from any chat. Developers get the same tools as an MCP server, a REST API and an OpenAPI spec.
What a free account adds
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Tailor the answers to your own rules
My Rules adds your agency’s supplemental ethics regulation, a stricter gift limit, your company’s policy on what it offers government employees, and who your ethics official is. Rules only ever make an answer stricter, never looser, and you can share yours with your team in one link.
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Keep your work, and get told when it changes
Save a compliance matrix and check your proposal against it later. Save a Recompete Radar search as a watch: it re-runs every day and emails you when a contract enters the window, leaves it, or its end date moves.
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Ask a person
When a rule says “it depends”, Ask an Expert sends your question, with what the tool said, to Your Roster’s verified experts: former contracting officers, program managers and ethics advisers. The answer comes back by email and in your AI.
On ethics questions
Our answers are a second read. Under 5 CFR 2635.107, good-faith reliance on your own agency ethics official’s advice is what protects you, so every ethics answer points you to them, and My Rules can draft the email.
Built to be trusted
- Rules, not guesses: the ethics and compliance tools run the regulations as written, so the same facts always give the same answer.
- Every answer cites its source, from 5 CFR 2635 to the Federal Register notice behind a horizon date.
- Nothing you type is stored: pasted text stays in your browser unless you save it to your account.
- Never paste classified, controlled (CUI) or personal information; the tools remind you where it matters.
Build one with us
The best of these tools will come from the people who answer these questions for a living. APEX Accelerators, GovCon law firms, associations and former officials: bring the rules you know, and we’ll build the tool with your name on it.
Start at yourroster.ai/tools, or propose a tool.