Indirect cost proposals
A complete, documented proposal package your nation submits to its cognizant federal agency to negotiate its rate.
Read moreIndirect cost proposals for tribal nations
Your nation may be absorbing costs the federal government is willing to cover.
We prepare the indirect cost proposal your nation submits to its cognizant federal agency, documented well enough to defend.
Schedule a conversation No cost for a first conversation. No obligation after it.The work is not getting done because no one has time to do it.
Federal awards will share administrative costs. Getting that share requires a negotiated indirect cost rate, and getting a rate requires a proposal built on documented cost data.
That proposal takes staff time, specialized knowledge, and money. Many tribal finance offices have none of the three to spare. So the work sits, and the nation covers its administrative costs out of its own funds.
The same pattern runs through grants, reporting, and compliance. The requirements are heavy, the deadlines are real, and the work rests on a few people who are already full.
How we work
Four steps, in this order, every time.
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Listen
We start by hearing where the work breaks down. No proposal until we understand how your offices actually run.
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Build
We develop applications that take the manual labor out of the work and cut the number of steps a person has to remember.
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Train
We train your staff on everything we deliver, so the knowledge stays in the community after we are gone.
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Refine
We use AI to tailor each solution to how your nation actually works, and we adjust it as your needs change.
Who we are
BurningSageTech is Indian-owned and woman-owned, founded by Joni Theobald, an enrolled tribal member with a background in tribal enterprise development, federal Indian law, grant development, and workforce training.
Tribal nations are sovereign governments. We work with your nation on that footing, government to government, and we listen before we propose.
Your data belongs to your nation
We do not use one nation's data to build products for anyone else. Access is limited to the people doing your nation's work. At the end of an engagement your data is returned or deleted, whichever your nation chooses, and we confirm in writing when it is done.
If your nation has its own data policy, send it. We will work under it.
Start with a conversation
Tell us what is not working. You do not need a defined project or a budget to begin.
Schedule a conversation
Pricing is set in writing after we understand the work.