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An AI teammate for Highergov.

Connect Highergov and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 27 Highergov actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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300 free credits. No card. Read-only if you want.

Things to ask about Highergov
  • What changed in Highergov this week compared with last week?
  • Pull these numbers from Highergov into a sheet and chart them.
  • Text me if the daily figure in Highergov drops by more than 20%.
  • Build me a Monday summary from Highergov.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Highergov

27 Highergov actions, picked for what you ask.

About Highergov: HigherGov is a market intelligence platform providing comprehensive data on U.S. federal, state, and local government contracts and grants.

Reads

27 in all · always allowed
  • Get People
    Retrieve information on people related to government contracts and grants.
  • Get Agencies
    Retrieve agencies information. Use when you need to list agencies with pagination.
  • Get Programs
    Retrieve a list of government programs and categories. Use when exploring available programs with…
  • Get Pursuits
    Retrieve user-specific pursuits. Use when you need to fetch a user's pursuits with optional…
  • Get Contracts
    Retrieve federal contract data. Use when you need to list contracts with optional filters like…
  • Get Documents
    Fetch document metadata from Highergov. Use when needing to retrieve documents associated with…
  • Get NAICS Codes
    Retrieve NAICS codes. Use when you need a pagitated list of NAICS codes, optionally filtered by…
  • Get Task Orders
    Retrieve task order data. Use when you need to list task orders associated with contracts.
  • Get Award History
    Retrieve award history. Use when you need paginated historical award data.
  • Get Contract IDVs
    Retrieve Indefinite Delivery Vehicle (IDV) contract records via the Highergov Contracts endpoint.
  • Get Grant History
    Fetch historical data on grants. Use when you need paginated historical data for a specific grant…
  • Get Opportunities
    Retrieve opportunity data. Use when you need a paginated list of opportunities filtered by search…
  • Get Tech Programs
    Retrieve information on technology programs. Use when you need to list technology programs with…
  • Get Grant Programs
    Retrieve information on grant programs. Use when you need to list available grant programs with…
  • Get Subgrant Awards
    Retrieve subgrant awards information. Use when you need to list subgrant awards with optional…
  • Get Contract History
    Retrieve contract history. Use when you need paginated historical data for a specific contract (via…
  • Get Defense Programs
    Retrieve defense programs information. Use when you need to list defense programs with pagination.
  • Get Contract Vehicles
    Retrieve contract vehicles. Use when you need to list contract vehicles with pagination.
  • Get Prime Grant Awards
    Retrieve information on prime grant awards. Use when you need a paginated list of awarded federal…
  • Get SBIR Opportunities
    Retrieve SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) opportunities.

Changes

0 in all · off when Highergov is read-only

None in this app.

Showing 20 of 27. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect Highergov

    Open Connections, find Highergov and paste an API key from your Highergov account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share Highergov with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a Highergov job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

Highergov, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

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Questions

Highergov and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Highergov?

Yes. Highergov is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with an API key. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect Highergov?

Open Connections, find Highergov and paste an API key from your Highergov account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

What can Cicada do in Highergov?

27 actions: 27 that read from Highergov and 0 that change things in it, for example get people, get agencies, get programs. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Highergov?

Yes. In Connections, set Highergov to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about Highergov from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run Highergov jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my Highergov data safe?

Your Highergov login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

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