The Mountain to Cathedral 

When people ask what sparked RohanProcure, I tell them about the night I first understood that procurement pain is not just a paper cut—it is one of the most brutal tests known to man. It is, effectively, Mount Everest. An unforgiving summit of re-keyed clauses, documentation abyss, and protests that can bury even the strongest climbers. What you must understand is that our vision is not to chisel a gentler trail up that mountain but to bring the whole massif crashing down and, in the rubble, raise a cathedral.  

RohanProcure began with that audacious vision: to convert the hours and heartbreak we spend appeasing process into a sanctuary where acquisition professionals can practice judgment, creativity, and stewardship at the speed their missions demand. 

It is now more than that vision. Today, we are introducing RohanProcure to the world, a system we’ve been quietly working on with the government for 18 months. A system designed to make the mountain itself irrelevant. 

For the last eighteen months we have worked in the quiet corridors of program offices and SCIF-walled labs, shaping RohanProcure into a cognitive procurement orchestrator that knows every contour of acquisition the way a seasoned Sherpa knows thin air. It ingests draft language, statutes, CPARS narratives, and live vendor telemetry, then breathes out compliant, audit-ready artifacts while a streaming knowledge graph binds government demand and industry capacity in the same moment. Clauses align themselves, compliance checks are performed at lightning speed providing commercial vendors the opportunity to correct mistakes; evaluation factors score in real time, and the protest triggers that once lurked like hidden crevasses surface as gentle alerts. What once took quarters now happens between sunrise and lunch; what once depended on luck now rests on transparency: you can replay frame by frame before GAO. 

That is the cathedral rising from the rubble: vaulted in technology transformation enabled by Rohirrim’s organization-specific generative AI, lit by explainability, and open to every acquisition professional who would rather exercise judgment than chase missing sub-paragraphs. RohanProcure is not a gentler trail; it is the end of the mountain. 

The Strategic Imperative 

Government procurement professionals face a widening gap between the speed at which near-peer adversaries’ field new technology and the pace at which the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) machinery can translate an idea into an awarded contract. Traditional, document-heavy workflows add months—sometimes years—of lag that warfighters and civilian agencies can no longer afford.   

Speed of Need—the ability to field capability as fast as operational demand appears—has become the decisive metric for national readiness.  While iterative software pathways and other transaction authorities have shaved weeks off select buys, they still rely on human analysts combing through thousands of pages of requirements, market-research reports, and vendor submissions. Cycle-time compression now demands a deeper shift: from people managing paperwork to agents orchestrating data. 

RohanProcure is our declaration that acquisition can move at the tempo of human urgency rather than bureaucratic inertia—a cognitive procurement orchestrator that inhales the labyrinthine language of regulations, exhales compliant, audit-ready artifacts, and fuses live government demand with real-time industry capability in one continuously learning graph. It replaces the deadweight of PDFs and spreadsheet archaeology with technology that drafts solicitations in hours, flags compliance gaps before they metastasize into protests, and surfaces best-fit vendors the moment a requirement is conceived. In a world where adversaries iterate hardware and software in months, not years, RohanProcure shortens the distance between mission need and fielded solution, freeing acquisition professionals to exercise judgment instead of keystrokes and giving warfighters a fighting chance to meet threats at the speed of need. 

The Catalyst 

Creation stories are rarely linear, but RohanProcure was born the night a billion-dollar IDIQ evaporated before my eyes. We were a year into the RFP effort—defense primes fully committed, proposal teams in permanent surge—when two protests, a misplaced clause and conflicting language, and a sudden cancellation erased everything. Tens of millions in B&P spend, thousands of staff-hours, and one missed birthday disappeared with a single email. In that moment I saw the truth: we weren’t defeated by competition but by the mountain of pain we accept as “manual process.” My resolve was simple—destroy that mountain of pain and, from its rubble, raise a cathedral of possibility. 

I stared into the crater that email left behind and felt twin forces pulling at me. One was fierce protectiveness for the acquisition professionals—Government and industry—whose talent and family time had been swallowed whole. The other was a white-hot anger at a workflow so brittle it could collapse under a single mis-fired clause. That anger became passion, and that passion became fuel. I vowed that if the process insisted on being a mountain, I would turn it to dust and use every grain to lay the cathedral’s foundation. The first blueprint was a sketch on a hotel notepad; the name RohanProcure glowed faintly at the top. 

The more I looked, the clearer the fault lines became. My own team rebuilt compliance matrices from scratch like penitents rolling boulders uphill. Contracting officers with encyclopedic knowledge of FAR parts spent their brilliance copying clauses between Word templates and praying a subsection didn’t slip. Meanwhile warfighters waited—caught in the valley between Section C and Section M—because documents, not data, ran the show. Those patterns hardened my conviction: the cathedral had to be a living system that drafts, checks, and adapts at machine speed while liberating humans to do what only they can—judge, reason, and deliver capability at the speed of need. 

Closing the Time-to-Capability Gap 

The speed at which adversaries iterate their technology has accelerated into a realm the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) never contemplated—and the mismatch now poses an immediate risk to deterrence and mission assurance. 

The problem is not a lack of talent or will; it is the architecture of procurement work itself.  Procurement and contracting remain document-centric disciplines. Even the leaner pathways introduced in recent guidance still depend on people opening PDFs, reconciling clauses, and assembling acquisition documents by hand. Those people are highly trained, but they are buried under terabytes of unstructured text, outdated and disconnected structured data, and each manual touch injects delay. Shaving a week here or a month there is no longer enough.  What the mission now demands is a wholesale transition from humans managing paperwork to machine agents orchestrating data. 

The overall objective of RohanProcure is attaining what senior leaders now call Speed of Need: the ability to translate an operational gap spotted on Monday into a contracted, production-ready solution before the adversary’s next sprint cycle.  Achieving that tempo is no longer optional.  It is the decisive metric by which future readiness will be judged, and it is only attainable if autonomy becomes a first-class citizen in the acquisition system.  

Steven Aberle

CEO