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We Did It Together: How a Veteran Business Owner and an AI Agent Tackled Federal Certification — and Won
The badges are on the website now: Veteran-Owned, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, Woman-Owned Small Business. Getting them meant a multi-month, multi-agency, documentation-intensive gauntlet and a real experiment: could Claude work as a true collaborator on a high-stakes process? This dual-voice story walks through the SAM.gov mistakes (an SSN where the EIN should go), the two near-identical SBA portals, the knowledge base no busy owner would ever read, and the honest line between what the human decided and what the AI tracked.