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The Practices

Three practices. One standard.

Every Gatewell practice does one thing: it proves where equipment and materials actually come from, on documents the supplier did not write. The regime asking the question changes, from the FCC's Covered List to a federal representation to a defense clause. The evidentiary method does not. Same method, same published standard, same fixed-fee terms.

The Three

The Covered-List Practice

The flagship. Vendor-bench diligence and origin evidence for the American buyers of covered hardware (importers, distributors, EPCs, project developers), and a deliberately limited number of Conditional Approval filing engagements each year for allied-country manufacturers, carried through onshoring plans and standing compliance beyond the grant.

Schedule of services

Gatewell Federal

Origin evidence behind the representations federal contractors, subcontractors, and recipients of federal funds have already signed, built on documents the supplier did not write, in a file that holds up after the container is stopped.

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Gatewell Defense

Covered-materials and rare-earth origin evidence for the defense supply chain, from the part back to the mill, the refiner, and where the clause demands it, the mine.

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Portfolio Operations

For private equity and portfolio operators

One screening standard applied across the holdings, run as pre-close diligence on a target’s supplier bench or inside a 100-day plan. Operating partners inherit covered hardware in the companies they buy, and the exposure surfaces at the worst moment: a stopped shipment, a bid representation, a buyer’s questionnaire. One relationship, one method, and a comparable evidence file for every company in the book.

Portfolio diligence
One Standard

The Gatewell Protocol.

Every practice delivers to the same published method: The Gatewell Protocol for Origin Evidence, an open standard for demonstrating where equipment and materials actually come from. Three conformity levels, from documented self-declaration to monitored annual verification, and a claims discipline that states on every file how far the inquiry went.

Certificates issued under the Protocol are checkable by anyone, against a public registry. The v1.0 comment draft is open through October 31, 2026.

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Free Tools

UFLPA Screener

Screen a vendor list against the DHS UFLPA Entity List: all 205 listings, and each listing's aliases and former names as names in their own right. Matching runs on your device. The first exposure question, answered in minutes.

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The Conditional Approval Playbook

What the Conditional Approval process actually requires: the drone and router precedent, the anatomy of an application, and the 90-day preparation sequence. Free download.

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The Register, read by Gatewell

Every Conditional Approval ever published, tracked and read: applicant structures, scope patterns, termination dates, and the agencies’ batch cadence.

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Begin with the diagnostic.

Two weeks. A fixed fee, half credited if we proceed together. Whichever practice the question belongs to, it starts in the same place.

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