Market Map

Market Map turns an early SAM.gov notice into a reproducible, evidence-backed map of plausible supplier companies. It separates explicit needs, reasonable implications, and unknowns; retrieves dated public evidence through approved MCP connectors; resolves legal entities conservatively; ranks candidates by role with deterministic scoring; and exposes the exact source span behind every scored claim.

The first prediction is frozen as canonical JSON with a SHA-256 checksum before a later notice can be imported for an isolated comparison. Scores prioritize analyst review; they are not probabilities of winning, certifications, or legal eligibility determinations.

What is included

• Fixture-first deterministic discovery, freeze, replay, and validation comparison.

• Historical as_of enforcement and unknown-date exclusion.

• Immutable, content-addressed source and artifact storage.

• SAM, USAspending, SBIR, and Tavily source boundaries with normalized envelopes, budgets, caching, pagination, retry/circuit behavior, and coverage reporting.

• Structured fake/OpenAI LLM providers with versioned untrusted-content prompts.

• Conservative UEI/CAGE/DUNS/domain/name-and-address entity resolution.

• Exact citation validation and deterministic role-aware scoring.

• FastAPI REST/SSE, Typer CLI, high-level product MCP tools, ARQ worker hooks, and an accessible responsive web application.

• PostgreSQL/Redis local stack, migrations, fixture tests, CI, security checks, SBOM, JSON/Markdown exports, architecture/runbook/evaluation/threat-model documentation.

The authoritative contract is BUILD_SPEC.md.

Related MCP server: LexSocket MCP Server

Quick start

Prerequisites: Git, OpenSSL, Python 3.12, uv, Node 22.13 or newer, pnpm, Docker, and Docker Compose.

make bootstrap
make demo

make demo is offline and uses no credentials. It runs the committed PrSM-style acceptance fixture through discovery, verifies that all scored evidence is eligible at the cutoff, freezes and re-verifies the manifest, performs the separately locked validation comparison, and writes example JSON/Markdown artifacts under data/demo/. Supplier/role gold labels are not passed to the product comparison; after the manifest independently verifies, a separate evaluator reads evals/cases/prsm.v1.json and writes fixture-evaluation.json. It also measures 20 same-snapshot artifact-store replays, enforces the two-minute warm-cache p95 gate, and writes fixture-warm-replay-benchmark.json; this is not a cold-live latency claim. The command prints an actionable local file:// report URL, the deterministic run ID and manifest hash, and every export path.

max_results is a display preference: the web report shows at most that many candidates in the selected supplier lane (with a hard ceiling of 20). JSON and Markdown exports from REST, CLI, product MCP, and web all retain the complete canonical candidate set.

Start the full local stack:

make dev

For the persistent live stack, keep the required provider values in the uncommitted .env and start it explicitly with FIXTURE_MODE=false make dev.

• Analyst web application: http://localhost:3000

• REST API and OpenAPI: http://localhost:8000/docs

• Health/readiness: http://localhost:8000/healthz and http://localhost:8000/readyz

• Product MCP Streamable HTTP endpoint: http://localhost:8010/mcp

• Repository-owned source MCP: internal Compose endpoint http://market-source-mcp:8020

Host-facing API, web, and product-MCP ports bind to 127.0.0.1 by default. Any intentional non-loopback product-MCP override should also set a strong MARKETMAP_MCP_TOKEN; the source MCP is never published to the host.

Environment and live mode

Fixture mode is the zero-credential default. .env.example documents safe defaults; an existing .env is never generated, overwritten, copied into images, logged, or committed. make bootstrap checks that an existing file remains byte-identical.

Live mode requires these names:

• SAM_API_KEY

• LLM_PROVIDER=openai, LLM_MODEL, and OPENAI_API_KEY

• WEB_SEARCH_PROVIDER=tavily, TAVILY_API_KEY, and TAVILY_SEARCH_DEPTH=basic

Run the fixture proof before consuming live quota:

make smoke-live

That target reruns make demo, then performs one bounded check each for SAM, USAspending, SBIR, OpenAI structured output, and Tavily basic search. The SBIR check invokes the repository-owned SBIRHTTPProvider and SBIRAwardSearchTool and requires a normalized award record; an API failure is failed unless SBIR_BULK_FALLBACK_PATH explicitly names a valid bulk file, in which case the same tool validates it and reports degraded. A generic SBIR landing page never satisfies the connector check. After the checks complete without a failure, including any validated degraded SBIR fallback, the target creates a uniquely named temporary Compose project on an ephemeral loopback port and submits the reference notice in current mode through the public API and discovery ARQ worker. The product check polls every named stage, checks citation/date and aggregate call/token/credit budgets, freezes and verifies the manifest, writes only a sanitized summary under ignored data/reports, and removes that temporary project and its volumes. It does not invoke validation routes or read holdout data. The historical cutoff proof remains the committed, checksum-verified fixture demo; a new live fetch is never misrepresented as a pre-cutoff snapshot. The launcher does not source .env: it parses only the named provider/smoke allowlist as literal values, execs a sanitized environment, and disables Compose's implicit dotenv load.

Set MARKETMAP_LIVE_API_BASE_URL to a loopback URL to use an already-running live stack instead; configure that stack with config/analysis.live-smoke.yaml. Set SBIR_BULK_FALLBACK_PATH to an approved host-visible CSV, JSON, JSONL, or NDJSON file for the direct live-smoke connector check. The launcher passes that literal path only to the bounded provider-check process and removes it before starting the isolated Compose stack. For a deployed source MCP, mount the approved file read-only and configure its path as seen inside that container. Missing or invalid configuration is reported without file contents. Tavily generated answers/raw content remain disabled.

CLI

uv run marketmap analyze --notice-url URL --as-of ISO8601 --fixture --wait
uv run marketmap analyze --notice-text "..." --mode current --wait
uv run marketmap status RUN_ID
uv run marketmap report RUN_ID --format json --output report.json
uv run marketmap freeze RUN_ID
uv run marketmap compare RUN_ID --upload later-notice.pdf
uv run marketmap replay RUN_ID --offline
uv run marketmap verify-freeze RUN_ID
uv run marketmap mcp doctor
uv run marketmap source doctor

CLI and product-MCP comparison calls wait for the isolated validation job to finish so their fixed command/tool sets return the actual comparison. The wait is bounded to ten minutes by default; polling starts at 0.5 seconds and uses bounded exponential backoff up to 5 seconds. Operators may lower the timeout and starting interval with MARKETMAP_VALIDATION_WAIT_SECONDS (0–600) and MARKETMAP_VALIDATION_POLL_SECONDS (0.05–5). If the bounded wait expires, the response retains the durable validation ID and tells the caller to resubmit the identical compare request to retrieve the terminal result; REST and web remain asynchronous through GET /api/v1/validations/{validation_id}.

Exactly one notice input is accepted. Historical analysis requires an explicit UTC cutoff. Validation refuses an unfrozen or checksum-invalid discovery run.

REST and product MCP

POST /api/v1/analyses returns HTTP 202 with run, status, and event URLs. Reports, requirements, candidates, exact evidence, freeze, compare, validation, health, and readiness routes follow the contracts in the build spec. Errors use typed problem details, while a degraded enrichment source produces a valid partial resource.

The product MCP exposes only high-level analyst operations:

• analyze_notice

• get_analysis_status

• get_analysis_report

• search_companies

• get_company_evidence

• compare_with_later_notice

Raw source tools are not handed to the analysis model.

Repository map

apps/
  api/                 FastAPI delivery surface
  worker/              ARQ job entry points
  web/                 analyst application
packages/
  domain/              shared Pydantic records and enums
  persistence/         SQLAlchemy, repositories, migrations, immutable blobs
  mcp_client/           approved registry, envelopes, client manager, adapters
  source_mcp/           SBIR, Tavily, safe fetch, and local-import tools
  ingestion/            notice validation, attachments, document extractors
  llm/                  provider protocol, fake/OpenAI adapters, prompts
  analysis/             checkpointed workflow, temporal, identity, citations, scoring
  reporting/            canonical report, Markdown, manifest, freeze, comparison
  cli/ and product_mcp/ thin non-web delivery surfaces
tests/                  unit, contract, integration, adversarial, e2e, fixtures
config/                 analysis/scoring settings, MCP pins and schema snapshots
docs/                   architecture, data dictionary, runbook, evaluation, security
scripts/                bootstrap, demo, fixture recording, pins, smoke, SBOM, cleanup
data/                   ignored runtime artifacts only

Development gates

make check
make test
make test-e2e
make demo
make export-sbom

make clean-runtime prints and removes only repository-generated caches, build outputs, and reports. It preserves Docker volumes, source blobs, uploads, and operator data. make check-licenses rejects unknown, strong-copyleft, or source-available locked dependencies; make export-sbom writes the reviewed license inventory beside both CycloneDX inventories.

Troubleshooting

• If a fixture request is rejected, use the prefilled reference URL, historical mode, cutoff 2025-06-02T21:00:00Z, and max_results=20; fixtures are deliberately bound to one exact request.

• If readiness is partial, run marketmap mcp doctor and marketmap source doctor. The output names the unavailable connector without printing credentials.

• If Compose starts from an older schema, run docker compose down --volumes only when you intend to discard local prototype data, then rerun make dev.

• If ports 3000, 8000, or 8010 are occupied, stop the conflicting local process or override the published ports in a Compose override file.

• If the web build reports an engine mismatch, use Node 22.13 or newer as pinned by CI and the container image.

Evidence and evaluation boundaries

Every displayed substantive claim resolves to a stored document hash, legal entity, publication date/confidence, exact quote and locator, evidence class, directness, and score contribution. Current mutable webpages without defensible dates are excluded from historical scores. Award receipt is funded activity, not proof of successful delivery; NAICS/PSC membership is weak inferred evidence.

The early notice and locked validation notice are synthetic acceptance fixtures. The candidate evidence excerpts are dated, pre-cutoff public-source excerpts retained for deterministic offline replay; they are not a claim of live source access or comprehensive supplier coverage. Review docs/evaluation_methodology.md and docs/known_limitations.md before interpreting results.

Documentation

• Architecture

• Data dictionary

• Connector runbook

• Evaluation methodology

• Release evidence

• Threat model

• Known limitations

• Follow-up backlog

MIT licensed. Upstream reviewed pins and attribution are recorded in NOTICE and config/mcp-lock.json.