Uzima Amka

Intelligence infrastructure
for decisions that cannot
afford to be wrong.

Founded by a 40-year aerospace program management veteran who spent three decades ensuring NASA and DoD programs met their objectives. Now building the analytical tools that bring the same discipline to government contracting, trades operations, and ministerial practice.

Why This Exists

Programs that cannot afford to fail require a different kind of discipline.

For 32 years at Raytheon, Larry Chase managed programs that operated at zero tolerance for failure — Space Shuttle, International Space Station, Artemis. Full P&L responsibility across NASA and DoD portfolios averaging $25M annually, consistently rated CPARS Excellent. Later, Senior Risk Manager for NASA's next-generation astronaut spacesuit program.

The discipline that governed those programs — competitive analysis before commitment, structured risk identification, evidence-based decision frameworks, institutional knowledge that survives personnel changes — was simply not available to mid-market government contractors making the same category of decision at a fraction of the scale.

Uzima Amka was founded to close that gap. Not with generic AI tools or rebranded CRMs — with the specific analytical infrastructure that has governed mission-critical program management for four decades, rebuilt for the firms that need it most.

40+
Years in aerospace program management
NASA, DoD, and commercial program leadership
$750M+
Program portfolio under management
P&L responsibility across five concurrent NASA/DoD contracts
32 yrs
Career at Raytheon Integrated Intelligence Systems
Houston Operations Business Area Executive
4
Human spaceflight programs
Space Shuttle · ISS · Artemis · xEVAS spacesuit development
PMP
Project Management Professional
PMI · Six Sigma · DAU Program and Cost Management certified

The Portfolio

Three domains. One discipline.

Uzima Amka builds precision intelligence tools for professional domains where the cost of a wrong decision is measured in contracts lost, margins eroded, or opportunities permanently closed.

Government Contracting
CIOS™
Contract Intelligence Operating System

The analytical infrastructure that transforms federal contracting from a pursuit exercise into a managed intelligence discipline. Competitive intelligence, bid/no-bid analysis, award simulation — before the solicitation drops.

Trades Operating System
Fieldbook · AutoFlow · Leadflow
The trade business that runs itself

Three interlocking tools for trade professionals. Quote at market rate. Automate the admin. Capture every lead the platform generates and return it as pre-qualified work.

Coming soon
Ministerial Intelligence
Unseen Layer™
Textual intelligence for preachers

Nine narrative agents purpose-built for the craft of preaching. Pauline structure. Epistolary analysis. Literary framing. A research and writing intelligence system built by a preacher, for preachers.

The Name

Uzima Amka

In Swahili, uzima amka means “wake to life.” It is the belief that every professional domain contains a latent capacity for transformation — waiting for the right tools, the right framework, and the right discipline to wake it up.

Government contractors who have accepted a 22% win rate as inevitable. Trade professionals who have absorbed the cost of under-priced jobs as a cost of doing business. Ministry leaders who carry the full research burden of weekly preaching alone. None of these are fixed conditions. They are the result of operating without the right intelligence infrastructure.

01
Built by practitioners, not observers
Every tool Uzima Amka ships is built from the inside of the problem. CIOS was designed by a program manager with 40 years of federal acquisition experience. Unseen Layer was built by a preacher. The trades platform was built by someone who has operated a trades business. We do not build for markets. We build from experience.
02
Evidence over instinct
The dominant mode of decision-making in government contracting, trades operations, and ministry practice is instinct and tribal knowledge. We build for the alternative — structured analysis, documented reasoning, reproducible decisions. Every recommendation carries its evidence chain.
03
Institutional rigor at individual scale
The analytical infrastructure that primes and large enterprises use internally has never been accessible to the mid-market. Our entire purpose is to close that gap — delivering the same discipline that governs a $750M program portfolio to a 50-person firm making a $200K pursuit decision.

Start with CIOS™

The flagship platform is in active pilot.

CIOS is currently in structured pilot with select government contracting organizations. Early access participants work directly with our intelligence team to configure the platform for their specific capture portfolio.

What early access includes
  • Direct configuration support from the intelligence team
  • Custom integration with your existing capture pipeline
  • Dedicated onboarding across all six CIOS™ modules
  • Priority access to new module releases during pilot
  • No credit card required during the pilot period
  • Founding member pricing locked at close of pilot