The 2026.1 release improves the capture of Sparks and streamlines their conversion to opportunities, as well as offers clients new flexibility to manage opportunities for multiple lines of business all within Growth CRM. In addition, this update brings access to a redesigned, AI-fueled user experience for GovSearchAI - the Opportunity and market intelligence tool included with Growth CRM – designed to accelerate your organization's ability to find and qualify new opportunities to fill its pipeline.
Feature Enhancements
Growth CRM: Manual Spark Capture – Sparks are the entity used to track leads for potential opportunities in Growth CRM. Now, in addition to creating Sparks from leads found on SAM.gov, users have the flexibility to use the Create a New Spark Record option and manually enter the lead details, allowing the capture of leads from any source.
Growth CRM: Enhanced Spark-to-Opportunity Conversion Admin Panel – This update improves the processes associated with using Spark records to create new Opportunity records, including:
The Spark entity has been enhanced to capture additional details that may be available for a potential opportunity - such as Contacts and document attachments - which may then be used to create an Opportunity Record.
For clients that prefer a Spark to Opportunity conversion workflow without any manual intervention by users, the client's admin can configure the solution to auto-convert all incoming Sparks into Opportunity records, creating a completely seamless Spark-to-Opportunity creation process. The admin can designate whether to create new opportunities from “All Sparks” or only “Sparks that meet certain criteria” and then establish the criteria that must be found on a Spark record - e.g., Agency, NAICS/PSC codes, etc. - to trigger the creation of a new opportunity.
Growth CRM: New Business Process Flows (BPF) for Business Line-Specific Workflows – This release introduces new Business Process Flows (BPF) in the Dynamics 365 Opportunity entity that enable an organization to manage opportunities for multiple lines of business – for example, Federal vs. Commercial – within Growth CRM, each with their own distinct BPFs that can be configured to align with the line of business’s unique processes – allowing companies to consolidate sales operations on a single CRM to save IT cost. Contact your TechnoMile Customer Success Manager if interested in exploring these new BPFs and their compatibility with your existing Growth CRM implementation.
GovSearchAI: Reimagined, Agentic-Driven User Experience – With this update, clients can choose to upgrade to the redesigned, AI-fueled user experience for GovSearchAI, the opportunity and market intelligence tool the comes with your WinIt CRM. The new experience includes:
New User Interface, AI-Powered Search: A sleeker, modern interface, more intuitive navigation, and more powerful, AI-enabled search capabilities – with the ability to create saved searches – streamline the user experience and drive adoption.
Find Opportunities: TechnoMile AI agents help more efficiently fill your company’s pipeline – from analyzing, scoring, and highlighting the most relevant new opportunities in the market, to intelligent opportunity summarization and capability tagging.
Mila: Users have instant, conversational access to opportunity insights with Mila, TechnoMile’s new intelligent digital assistant. Trained to interact with users like a seasoned BD or Capture Manager, when assessing an opportunity, Mila simplifies document analysis and creation of Proposal artifacts, executive briefs, and more – accelerating decision-making and boosting productivity.
Personalized Opportunity Profile: Each user can customize their default view of Find Opportunities, tailoring it to include only high-relevancy opportunities for their role – for example, see leads relevant to only a specific business unit, program(s), Contract Vehicle(s), customer(s), location(s), and more – delivering personalized opportunity intelligence that saves users’ time.
The TechnoMile Opportunity: Users see a holistic, AI-enhanced view of each potential opportunity that aggregates all available details – e.g., any related notices, the Solicitation, the related expiring award, all documents – putting information at their fingertips to accelerate opportunity research and qualification.
Streamlined Market & Competitive Research: When exploring data regarding Awards, Contract Vehicles, Solicitations, Agencies, Vendors, and Contacts, users have a streamlined experience that includes quick access to their saved searches, search workflows that make it easy to rapidly filter the data, personalized views of agency spend data based on the capabilities of interest designated by the user, and drillable, hierarchical views of agency and contact data – all designed to speed a Growth team’s ability to research customers, competitors, partners, government contacts, and more.
Alerts & Notifications: Users can subscribe to email notifications based on their saved searches, as well as subscribe to email alerts when changes occur to an individual opportunity, award, contract vehicle, solicitation, agency, or Vendor record, mitigating the risk of missing relevant new opportunities and making it easy to monitor key changes in the market that impact customers, competitors, and partners.
NOTE:
This update will not be automatically applied to your instance of GovSearchAI. Please contact your TechnoMile Customer Success Manager if your organization is interested in migrating to the redesigned GovSearchAI user experience.