RANGING.CA

Opportunity command and control for defence procurement matching.

Ranging turns thousands of opportunities across hundreds of procurement portals in Canada and Allied Nations into one ranked, deadline-aware action list for every company in a portfolio. Associations, accelerators and economic development agencies run it across an entire membership. Free for suppliers.

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Opportunities
Companies
Portals
Advisor overlay
Ranked opportunities31 matched · 165 pairs
24H
RFQ — Autonomous ROV sensor suite SAM.govStrong fit
Subsea autonomy and sensor integration on the capability tags; TRL band matches.
48H
RFI — Counter-UAS detection layer CanadaBuysStrong fit
RF detection experience on file. Domestic-source rule applies; registration already held.
12D
Challenge — HVOF coating durability NATO DIANAWatch path
No live match this cycle. Named watch path opened for the next DIANA call.
Design partners

Built by operators who lived this problem

Ranging's founders have spent years in public safety, defence, and critical infrastructure. We kept our own companies alive by monitoring bid sites, writing winning proposals, subcontracting, and closing tenders. Ranging automates that process and extends it.

At its core, a data platform that helps
  • Companies find bids at no cost
  • Advisors match their strengths to companies
  • Investors assess a company's probability of success
  • Development agencies track outcomes
  • Industry association members maximize coverage
  • Large contractors find subcontractors
  • Academic institutions identify R&D opportunities

Winnable contracts go unclaimed

Early-stage dual-use companies miss opportunities they would actually win. No small company can monitor this space alone.

25+procurement and innovation portals
½of those portals are login-gated or JavaScript-rendered, and invisible to a simple scraper
daysis how long hand-matching a portfolio takes, and it is stale by the time it is finished
A sample of the sources
NATO DIANACanadaBuysSAM.gov DIBBS — gatedUK DCO / FTSNSPA — gated

Continuous, AI-matched opportunity intelligence

A web application that scans procurement and innovation portals on a schedule and matches what it finds against a portfolio of companies. The output is a ranked, deadline-aware action list.

Scan

Every portal, on a schedule

Static, headless, or flagged for manual review, matched to how each source actually works.

Match

Against the portfolio itself

Fit scored on capability, TRL, and eligibility. Each score carries a plain-language rationale.

Deliver

A ranked action list, per company

Deadline-sorted, with the advisor's own strengths mapped onto each bid.

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Twelve steps, four phases, one pipeline

1 Ingest
Step 1
Load the portfolio
Normalize company profiles into capability tags.
Step 2
Load the portal registry
Target sources tagged by jurisdiction and type.
Step 3
Classify portal access
Static, headless, keyword pattern, or flagged manual.
2 Scan
Step 4
Sweep innovation programs
Themes, funding, TRL, deadlines. A closed call tells you when the next cycle opens.
Step 5
Sweep live tender boards
Search terms come from the portfolio itself.
Step 6
Extract structured records
One schema: buyer, type, status, deadline, value, link.
3 Match
Step 7
AI matching
Capability, TRL, eligibility with a plain-language rationale.
Step 8
Coverage guarantee
A live match or a named watch path. No company unmapped.
Step 9
Compliance enrichment
Registration lead time, domestic-source rules, clearances.
4 Deliver
Step 10
Generate outputs
By opportunity, by company, portal notes. Deadline-sorted.
Step 11
Advisor overlay
Advisor strengths mapped onto each bid, an engagement plan.
Step 12
Monitor & alert
Scheduled re-scans; alerts on new matches and deadlines.

31 opportunities matched across 55+ portfolio companies

Counts from a full run of the process over 20+ procurement and innovation portals in the UK, the US, Canada and NATO.

20+portals scanned across UK, US, Canada, NATO
31opportunities matched
55+portfolio companies covered
165company-opportunity pairs produced

Four compounding advantages

Portfolio-driven search

Capability tags from the portfolio itself generate the search queries. That beats any generic keyword alert service.

Coverage guarantee

Every company gets a plain-language fit rationale rather than a raw match score.

Advisor-strength overlay

The accelerator gets something it can act on, which makes this services enablement rather than a feed.

Cross-jurisdiction normalization

CanadaBuys, SAM.gov, NCIA, and ISC unified into a single schema. No one else stitches them together.

Who doesn't pay, and who does

Companies don't pay

Free for companies is how the business works. Every company that joins adds to the registry, and that data goes into every paid product we build. It also gives us datasets, such as behavioural data, that nobody else has. Companies bring in their peers and the network grows on its own. Companies get something out of it. We get a clear view of what is actually happening in the ecosystem.

The loop
  • Companies join free
  • Registry and datasets like behavioural data deepen
  • Paid products get more valuable
  • Companies refer peers

Who pays

Accelerators & incubators

Per-portfolio SaaS. The primary buyer today.

Economic development agencies

Regional agencies monitoring a sector or area.
Product: Procurement Engine

Industry associations

Member-wide opportunity coverage as a benefit.

Future expansion

A self-serve tier for Tier 1 contractors and companies with subsidiaries, once the model is proven. Bid-writing copilot, consortium builder, and ITB/offset matchmaking extend the same dataset to adjacent services. Onboarding large contractors for subcontracting. Academic institutions for R&D.

Search for differentiation through unique identifiers and certifications such as Certified Aboriginal Business or Women's Business Enterprise Certification.

The handshake

Think of procurement as a handshake between a company and the Government. You have a great company, but there needs to be a government contract on the other end to connect. This is the way public purchasing works.

Innovation is not enough; it has to be matched by a demand signal, in the form of a government contract or a development grant.

When Canadian companies can reliably make the handshake, the benefits compound. The company earns high-value revenue, and the country keeps more of the value and the IP.

With Canada's new Defence Industrial Strategy, close to $180 billion in procurement and $290 billion in related capital investment over the next decade, missing the handshake gets expensive fast.

Karl Swannie

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