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Synthetic Prime Liaison Scout
Tracks the supplier and open-innovation programmes of Europe's defence primes, and maps your path into the right room.
Monitors
What it monitors
Every European prime runs supplier programmes, open-innovation calls and partner days, each on its own portal, cycle and vocabulary. The Scout watches all of them and tells you when a door opens that your capability fits through.
Prime supplier programmes
Supplier calls, registration cycles and vendor days at Rheinmetall, Thales, Leonardo, BAE Systems, KNDS, Saab, Airbus Defence and Space, Hensoldt, MBDA and Kongsberg.
Open-innovation tracks
Challenge themes, accelerator cohorts and technology-scouting priorities published by the primes' innovation units.
Programme signals
Award announcements and programme ramp-ups that predict where a prime will need suppliers next quarter.
Key people moves
Procurement and engineering leadership changes at the primes relevant to your domain, because paths run through people.
Teaming opportunities
Consortium formation around EDF calls and national programmes where a prime needs SME partners to qualify.
Delivers
What it delivers
The Scout turns prime-watching into a sequenced engagement plan: which window is open, who owns it, and what has to be true before you knock.
Programme window alerts
The day a supplier or innovation window opens at a tracked prime, with theme fit and deadline.
Intro-path maps
Who owns the decision, who influences it, and the warmest route from your network to that person, engineering side first.
Qualification prerequisites
What that prime demands before a first meeting counts: registrations, certifications, export statements and a named quality contact.
Prime engagement brief
A weekly digest of programme movements across all ten primes, filtered to your capability.
Replaces
What it replaces
Role
Business development hire working prime relationships
Cost
EUR 90,000 to 120,000 per year plus travel
Time to value
6 to 12 months for a cold network to produce meetings
A BD hire without an existing defence network spends the first year discovering which programmes exist and who owns them. The Synthetic Prime Liaison Scout starts with the map: every supplier programme, every innovation track, every path requirement, kept current daily. Your founders take the meetings, the Scout makes sure they are the right ones, prepared.
Scope
What it does not do
The Synthetic Prime Liaison Scout is an intelligence and mapping function. Relationships stay human.
Does not make the introduction
It maps the path and drafts the approach. The relationship is built by humans, yours.
Does not access prime internal data
It monitors published programmes and public signals, never confidential prime information.
Does not negotiate
Teaming agreements, NDAs and pricing stay with you and your counsel.
Does not replace showing up
Partner days and trade events still matter. The Scout tells you which ones are worth the flight.
For
Who this is for
A defence startup founder who knows their capability belongs inside a prime's programme but does not know which door to knock on, or what has to be true before knocking. If your pipeline depends on Rheinmetall, Saab or Thales ever returning your email, the Scout replaces cold outreach with a mapped, prerequisite-checked path.
Deploy the Synthetic Prime Liaison Scout
All ten primes watched from week one. Engagement brief every Monday, window alerts the day they open. Cancel anytime after the first month.
EUR 900per month · cancel anytime
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