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How Anyone Can Make $10K+/Month From the Government - Ep. #298

The Koerner Office - Business Ideas and Deep Dives with Chris Koerner

May 8, 2026

━ I sat down with Natalie Rosario to talk about how she makes money through government contracting without doing the actual work herself. She explained how she finds contracts on SAM.gov, gets quotes from subcontractors, marks up the price, and keeps the profit.

Speakers Natalie Rosario, Chris Koerner

TopicsEntrepreneurshipBusiness

Natalie Rosario (0:00)

My subcontractor charged me $41,000, and I charged the government $52,000. So I made $11,000 profit in just a two week time period. The first contract that I bet on was the first contract that I won. That was kind of when I was like, okay, well, this is really easy.

Chris Koerner (0:16)

$10,000 net profit to you every year for five years just for making a deal. You really don't do any work. You get paid, and then you pass on the money.

Natalie Rosario (0:24)

I get paid first, and then I pay who I owe an hour a month. The average person can win one contract and get them some type of steady income for the next three, five years without having to essentially do anything. You don't need any money. Again, it's free. The government is required to spend money with us. So it's not like we're out here begging for opportunities. They need us.

Chris Koerner (0:43)

How many hours a month would you say you're spending just to maintain the revenue you have?

Natalie Rosario (0:48)

An hour.

Chris Koerner (0:48)

For all of your contracts combined?

Natalie Rosario (0:50)

The reason I say that is because you just have to put in an invoice. Me and my company, I'm not located in Texas, but I can team up with a painting company in Texas.

Chris Koerner (0:59)

So you have contracted out to them?

Natalie Rosario (1:00)

Contracted out, put my price on top, and we both win on the contract.

Chris Koerner (1:04)

Yeah. You're genuinely helping someone and they're not having to pay you. The government is. So it's win-win.

Natalie Rosario (1:09)

One of my largest contracts was a $962,000 contract. My subcontractor charged me $700,000, and I was able to charge the government $962,000.

Chris Koerner (1:21)

Now, to me, the elephant in the room with this business is with AI. I could sound intelligent about any of this stuff. Are you using AI tools to take a shortcut here in any way?

Natalie Rosario (1:30)

Yeah. That's how I won contracts. I use Claude. We'll walk you through the whole thing. I mean, you can see these million-dollar contracts where you see one person, three people.

Chris Koerner (1:38)

And they're probably overbidding too.

Natalie Rosario (1:40)

It's such an untapped market. It's crazy.

Chris Koerner (1:42)

Yeah. Now, why aren't more people doing this? Why isn't this more popular?

Natalie Rosario (1:45)

I think that a lot of people just don't know about it. I think that-

Chris Koerner (1:48)

I've heard about it my whole career, but I've never thought to really dive in. You know, but it seems like a no-brainer.

Natalie Rosario (1:54)

It's so easy. People think it's so overwhelming because some of the verb is-

Chris Koerner (1:58)

AI can do so much of that now.

Natalie Rosario (2:00)

I mean, yeah, we have AI, right?

Chris Koerner (2:06)

Meet Natalie. Natalie makes six figures a year working about one to two hours a week landing government contracts in things that she has no experience in. Hazardous waste disposal, landscaping, two time zones away. All she does is bid on the jobs, finds subcontractors to do the work, and captures the profit between what the government pays her and what she pays her subcontractors. You don't need to be established. You don't need to have experience. And if you know how to use Chaggpt, congratulations, you're an expert on all of the thousands of jobs up for bid on Sam.gov. So if you want to start a business or a side hustle that can scale to six, seven or even eight figures a year with basically no startup costs, low time spent per week and you have an internet connection and a phone plan, this is the business for you. Please enjoy. Okay, so my goal is for the average person with no experience by the end of this episode to know how to get their first government contract. Do you think that will be possible?

Natalie Rosario (2:59)

Yes. Okay.

Chris Koerner (3:00)

And how did you first get into that?

Natalie Rosario (3:01)

It was actually so random. I was on Instagram.

I had a friend that I was following for a really long time and they posted it on their story, close friends. It wasn't even something that they were advertising, but they were talking about what they do and it kind of sparked my interest and I became obsessed with it. And I learned about it. I attempted to do it and I won my first contract. So that's why I was just like, okay, this is something everybody could do. You don't really need anything. So that's how I got into it. Okay.

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