Built for Government is a short-form interview podcast featuring the founders behind the SaaS companies transforming how U.S. and Canadian government agencies operate. If you are building software for government, this episode is about you.
Built for Government is not a panel show. There are no panels, no sponsors, no talking heads debating industry trends. Every episode is one conversation between host John Kitsmiller and one founder – your story, your company, and the work you are doing to modernize government from the ground up.
The show is built for an audience of GovTech and LegalTech professionals: founders, operators, and the agency decision-makers who buy and evaluate software. These are people who live in the same world you do.
Format: One-on-one video conversation with John Kitsmiller
Length: 20-30 minutes published (recorded at 35-40 to allow for editing)
Recording: Remote via video call – no travel, no studio required
Published on: YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other platforms – with short clips distributed on LinkedIn
Prep required: None – you receive a brief topic outline a few days before so you know what is coming
Approval: You have a chance to flag anything before the episode publishes
Every episode follows the same structure. The conversation flows naturally and you always know where you are.
01 – Your Company Who you are, what you have built, where you are today.
02 – The Origin Story Why GovTech, how the company started, and what problem you saw that nobody was solving.
03 – Product and Impact What your platform does, what changes for agencies when they adopt it, and the outcomes that matter.
04 – Hard Lessons What building for government has taught you, what took longer than expected, and what you would do differently.
05 – Where You Are Headed The next 12-18 months, what you are building toward, and where the company is going.
A Built for Government episode gives you a platform to tell the real story of your company – not the pitch deck version, not the press release version. The real one.
When your episode publishes, you get:
Most guests walk away with two to three clips they continue using as LinkedIn content for weeks after the episode publishes.
John Kitsmiller is the founder of energizeGTM, a GTM strategy consultancy working exclusively with GovTech and LegalTech SaaS companies under $5M ARR.
He spent 25 years in enterprise and SaaS sales, including roles at Microsoft and Dell, before founding four companies of his own over a 30-year career. He spent nearly eight years selling SaaS directly into Prosecutor’s Offices and public law agencies – which gives him a practitioner’s understanding of what it actually takes to sell into government.
John is not a journalist or a media host. He is a founder and operator who has been in the same rooms you have been in. That background shapes how these conversations go. He asks the questions that matter to founders and operators – not the surface-level questions, not the PR-friendly questions.
Getting on the show is simple. Reach out directly and we will find a recording time that works. The recording itself takes 35-40 minutes. We send a brief topic outline a few days before so you have time to think through the conversation – no prep calls required, no scripts, no rehearsals.
Most guests are booked and recorded within two weeks of reaching out.
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