marine. builder. author.
A Marine builds defense capability for the warfighter. A builder ships working products, not slide decks. An author writes the playbooks others can run. This is where the work lives — pushed live, source on GitHub, deployed on this domain.
Live US macro indicators — search any county, city, or zip and see employment, housing, growth, and federal spending in one dashboard.
Built entirely from public data — FRED, BEA, BLS, and Census — and presented as one regional snapshot instead of five government portals. Independent project, no agency affiliation, not financial advice.
Track federal SBIR/STTR opportunities without the SBIR.gov UX — AI search across DoD solicitations, status filters, agency browse.
Browse by agency — DARPA, Navy, and more — filter by open-now or opening-soon, bookmark opportunities, and get weekly alerts. Data syncs roughly every five minutes.
Federal contracting signal — an AI watches the Federal Register in real time and scores the impact of every rule and order.
Executive orders, rules, and proposed rules scored across five dimensions — defense, civilian, IT/cyber, compliance, opportunity — with sector alerts and a daily digest. Free tier plus a Pro tier with USAspending integration.
Ask the FAR/DFARS in plain English; get cited clauses back in under two seconds.
Thirteen regulation libraries — FAR, DFARS, GSAM, VAAR, HSAR and more — wired into a Regulatory Graph that models the cross-references between clauses. Retrieval-augmented answers carry precise citations; queries are never used for model training.
Look up any federal contractor; get an intelligence dossier with drill-through and an AI analyst on top.
Awards history, agency relationships, and competitive position pulled from USAspending into a single dossier — then an AI analyst you can question about what the numbers mean.
AI-powered flashcards — type any topic, get a 10-card deck in seconds.
Spaced repetition, adaptive difficulty, a multiple-choice test mode, progress analytics, and 12 languages. An offline PWA; free for local use, optional cloud sync.
Productization for federal contractors — the framework, the diagnostic, and the playbook behind them.
Home of the six-stage HARBOR framework — Harvest, Architect, Risk-Proof, Build, Operate, Replicate — and the free eight-minute HARBOR Signal readiness diagnostic.
The personal site — long-form essays and the writing about defense, federal data, and the long game.
Where the essays live: The Long Game, The Pentagon's 7 AI Projects, Why I Enlisted, Eagles of Alamut.
An AI phone receptionist for dental practices — answers calls 24/7, captures patient and insurance details, and books appointments straight into the practice schedule.
Currently dogfooding ahead of a wider launch. I provide technical support — outside the GovCon fleet, a different vertical entirely.
The GovCon Productization Playbook — "pricing without selling hours." Six stages — Harvest, Architect, Risk-Proof, Build, Operate, Replicate — plus a free Pre-HARBOR readiness gate. The complete framework for turning federal services work into fielded products.
buy the playbook — amazon take the free assessmentA working manual for data work inside federal programs — 13 chapters, 96,000 words, 67 exercises, MIT + CC BY 4.0. From Python foundations through MLOps, deployment, and AI governance, with dedicated guides for Advana, Databricks, Qlik, Navy Jupiter, and Palantir.
read it source on githubLong-form writing, on porbanderwala.com: The Long Game · The Pentagon's 7 AI Projects · Why I Enlisted · Eagles of Alamut.
all essays → porbanderwala.comporbanderwala.cloud · running on a single hostinger vps