GovCon Advisors Who Have Sat in Your Seat.
We come in as owner-operators, not BD consultants.
Fix It First. Then Scale It.
Kraken Federal is a GovCon advisory firm. We work with founders of government contractors who are starting up the right way, or who have stalled and cannot see why. Most are doing between $2 million and $15 million a year.
Most firms call us about a business development problem. That is rarely the piece that needs fixing. The real issue usually sits further up the chain: pricing, positioning, financials, or how the company describes its own value. We come in as owner-operators, not BD consultants. Show us the numbers and we will work through the business as if it were ours.
Every engagement starts with a reset. We rebuild your strategy, your story and your marketing from the past performance you actually have. Once the foundation holds, our team adds what you need to grow: capture and proposal support, ISO certification, GSA Schedule work and M&A advice.
We have already spent the tens of thousands of dollars on what does not work. You do not have to.
Where We Come In
Federal Market Entry & Expansion
Break in the right way. We help align your commercial use case to federal demand, sharpen your positioning, and build credibility with key mission stakeholders.
Opportunity Shaping & Capture Strategy
Deals are won before they hit SAM.gov. We help shape requirements, build early engagement, and drive proactive capture that shortens cycles and increases win probability.
Investor & M&A Advisory
Whether you're on the buy side or scaling a portfolio company, we provide the federal insight, GTM validation, and strategic positioning needed to de-risk and accelerate growth.
Embedded Expertise
We don't just advise - we embed. Our senior strategists and fractional execs operate inside your rhythm to drive action across BD, capture, growth, and executive decision-making.
AI Strategy for GovCon
We find where your business is losing owner time, missing opportunities, and pricing on numbers that are not real. Then we show you which of those problems AI actually fixes, and what fixing them is worth. Ten business days to a roadmap you can act on.
Our Superpower
Most GovCon consultants have never actually built a GovCon firm. They've advised from the outside, sold BD services, and moved on. Tom Prokop built one from scratch, scaled it past $10M, won 70+ contracts, and exited. Then he was brought in to reset the GovCon division of a $30M company that was losing money on government work - restructured the entire division, and helped them win their first contract in month five, their second in month seven, and a major recompete that same year.
Kraken's superpower is simple: we come in with an owner-operator hat, not a BD hat. We reset your strategy, rebuild your story from your actual past performance, and put you on a path of acceleration.
We help take you through the process as if we are you. As if it is our company.
Tom Prokop
Tom Prokop has spent his career either advising the C-suite or sitting in it. He started in The Home Depot's internal audit leadership development program, moved to KPMG's risk advisory practice, and spent more than ten years in commercial consulting and transformation roles at companies including Omnicare, Duke Energy and Freddie Mac.
He started his own government contracting firm in 2014 with a contract in hand. Over nearly ten years he grew it past $10 million in revenue and more than 100 employees at its peak, won more than 70 contracts across federal, state, local, education and commercial clients, and acquired a defense IT and telecom company in 2019. The firm made the Inc. 5000 in 2021 and 2022. He exited at the end of 2022.
Tom co-founded Kraken Federal in 2023. He is an RSM Federal Certified Coach and was named RSM Federal Coach of the Year - Platinum in 2025.
He holds an MBA from DePaul University and a B.S. in Finance from Saint Vincent College.
"I've already been there, done that, and spent the tens of thousands of dollars that didn't work out, so I know what you shouldn't do."- Tom Prokop
Why Kraken Federal
We combine the clarity of federal insiders, the speed of growth-stage operators, and the mindset of builders who deliver. No fluff. No ego. Just disciplined, high-impact execution.
We've helped clients navigate billion-dollar pursuits, prime their first federal win, unlock traction with hard-to-reach agencies, and build growth machines that scale.
If you're serious about playing the long game in federal - and playing it well - it's time to stop guessing and start compounding.
Let's build something that lasts.
Start the Conversation.
Tell us where the business is today. We will tell you what we would fix first.