Industry · Aerospace and Defence Components
Be on the prime's shortlist before the RFQ is written.
Primes and Tier 1 suppliers search for approved sources long before they issue an RFQ. We make your approvals, materials, processes and programme experience explicit enough to be found and verified.
The retrieval problem
Primes search for approvals. Sites bury them in a PDF.
A supplier quality engineer needs a second source for heat-treated structural parts with NADCAP approval. Most component suppliers list their approvals in a downloadable certificate pack. The supplier retrieved is the one whose pages state the part types, the special processes and the approvals in text.
Buyer queries
The queries we model in this market.
Examples, one from each stage of a purchase. Your report models the full set for your services and your region.
What approvals does a supplier need to make military aircraft parts?
NADCAP-approved heat treatment and machining suppliers in the UK
Build-to-print vs design-and-make suppliers for defence programmes
JOSCAR-registered component suppliers for a new defence programme
What has to be explicit
The facts systems need to match you to those queries.
- Part types and assemblies you make, by platform or system where you can say
- Approvals stated in text: AS9100, NADCAP special processes, JOSCAR
- Materials, processes and traceability (first article inspection, AS9102)
- Security and export credentials you hold, such as Cyber Essentials Plus
- Build-to-print or design-and-make, and the design authority you work under
Who we work with
- Structural components
- Machined and fabricated parts
- Special processes
Who decides
Supply chain managers, supplier quality engineers and design authorities at primes.
How it starts
From application to roadmap.
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Apply
Answer six short questions about your business. We read every application.
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15-minute consultation
Free. We show you two or three verified retrieval weaknesses in your market.
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Retrieval Opportunity Report
A measured diagnosis of one service category, and a prioritised roadmap.
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Implementation
The roadmap carried out, then re-tested against the same measures.
Common questions
Much of our work is confidential. What can we publish?
Capabilities, approvals and part types, without customers or programmes. That is usually enough to be matched, and it stays inside export and security rules.
Defence work is won through tenders. Why does AI visibility matter?
Tenders go to suppliers the prime already knows. Engineers and buyers search for new sources first, and that is where suppliers are found.
The roadmap, service by service
Free 15-minute consultation
Find out where your business stands.
- How search and AI systems currently interpret your business
- Where competitors are better understood than you
- Specific retrieval weaknesses, checked before we speak
- Whether there is work worth doing, and what it is worth to you
Apply for a free 15-minute consultation
We reply within one business day, and usually within the hour.