Forming Your Strategic Vision Through Selective Pursuit by Nathan Clark, Co-Founder and Principal Consultant There’s a difference between being aggressive and being strategic. In the world of federal funding and business growth, saying yes to every opportunity doesn’t make you ambitious: it makes you unfocused. And unfocused companies don’t just lose bids. They lose time,…

How to Position Your Business for Federal Awards by Nathan Clark, Co-Founder and Principal Consultant There’s a natural tendency in government contracting to treat proposals as the main event. You find the opportunity, scramble your team, fill in the templates, hit the deadline, and hope it works. But the best proposals don’t start with a…

We didn’t start Charleston Tartan to build a consulting empire. We started it because the way we work – how we think, how we serve, how we show up – wasn’t something we saw reflected in the traditional consulting world. We wanted a better model, so we built it. Charleston Tartan is a husband-and-wife consultancy…