We solve hard problems.
4AB Solutions helps defense-technology companies find the people who own the problem, earn the meeting, and carry a capability from first conversation to contract. Twenty years in special operations opens the door. The work is what happens after it opens.
Good technology stalls at the wrong door, in the wrong language, on the wrong clock. 4AB is the go-to partner for companies that need to reach people they can't get to and prove a capability to the people who will use it.
Map the buyer seat, the people around it and the trusted path in. Introductions are vouched for and earned, never sprayed.
Entry into a new command, service, agency or allied navy, and beyond defense wherever a hard buyer sits behind a hard process.
Open calls, RFIs, OTAs, SBIRs and the road to a program of record, read with a resource sponsor's eye for how the money moves.
Operator judgment on concept of employment, operational fit and test results, before the government sees the pitch and in the room when it does.
Ground truth first. Your end state, hard rules, headwinds and the process you already run.
Map the terrain. The decision-makers from the top down, and every path from our network to each seat.
Choose the entry point with the most credibility and relevance, and the moment to use it.
Open the door and carry it through. Debrief, adjust, run it again.
Client names are withheld. References are available under NDA.
Wrote the capture plan, built and ran its government submissions across SOCOM, the Army, the Marine Corps and DHS, and corrected the record with a test center when a report got the system wrong.
Identified the entry points across Europe and the Middle East, and brought in an undersea survey partner to round out the offer.
Built the target map of hardware firms that need production scale, and the government calls each could ride, then brokered the introductions.
Nathan Stuhlmacher founded 4AB Solutions after twenty years as a Navy SEAL officer, leading from small teams in combat to the budget side of the special operations enterprise, much of it alongside allies.
That is why the network answers, and why the advice holds up in the room. Every engagement is run by the founder.
Tell me what you have built and who you need to reach. You'll get a candid answer on whether 4AB can get you there. Advisory retainers, network agreements and defined projects.