Every system that touches CUI is in your assessment boundary.
Most of the defense industrial base is small: machine shops, precision fabricators, aerospace suppliers and engineering firms, usually under a hundred people, usually with no security staff, and now with a certification standing between them and the work. What often comes up late is that the software you run is part of the scope. As soon as a drawing, a traveler or a spec carrying Controlled Unclassified Information is stored in a system, that system is inside your boundary, and somebody has to be able to explain it to an assessor.
Sound familiar?
CUI is sitting in a spreadsheet right now
Travelers, drawings, quotes and job packets, on a shared drive or in an inbox, with no real access control and no record of who opened what. It's the most common finding and the least comfortable one.
Your shop software is in scope and nobody said so
The job tracker, the quoting tool, the scheduling system. If CUI passes through it, it gets assessed, and if nobody can produce an access review for it, that becomes your problem at the worst possible moment.
Every new tool adds to the scope
Another SaaS product means another vendor, another place your data goes and another set of questions at assessment time. The cheapest tool is rarely the cheapest once it's inside the boundary.
The score is a bid gate now
A current, honest score is checked before award. Whatever you think of the program, it decides which contracts you can go after.
The consultant finds the gaps, and then what
An assessment tells you what's wrong. It doesn't fix the software behind half of it, and that's usually where the work stalls.
What we build for defense & aerospace
Operations software built for the boundary
Job tracking, quoting, routing and scheduling designed from the start with proper role-based access, a record of every change and who made it, and a clear answer to where the data is kept.
CUI out of spreadsheets
Travelers, drawings and job packets moved into a system with permissions, version history and a record of who opened what, which is the evidence an assessor asks for.
Fewer systems, not more
Running your operation on one system shrinks the boundary instead of widening it. Every tool you retire is one less system to document.
Built around Microsoft 365 rather than beside it
Your staff sign in with the Microsoft 365 accounts you already have, including government cloud environments, so logins and access are managed in one place instead of two.
Evidence that comes from normal use
Access reviews, activity logs and change history produced as a normal part of using the system, not pulled together the week before an assessment.
Platforms for the firms that serve you
We also build for the managed IT providers and consultancies running readiness practices, including a CMMC platform that handles many client organizations, with scoring calculated from the official catalog.
Proof from your world
Two promises the software industry hates making
One monthly fee, starting at launch
Design, building, hosting and support in one monthly number you can budget like rent. No hourly billing, no change-order invoices, and no per-seat fees that grow with your team. Billing doesn't start until the first version is live and your team is using it.
See the plans →You own the custom code. All of it.
The account holding the code, the documentation and the hosting are in your name from day one. If you ever leave us, you take everything with you, and any developer can pick it up. You won't have to pay to get it back, rebuild it, or stay stuck on someone else's platform.
How we work →Questions we hear from defense & aerospace
Are you a C3PAO? Can you certify us?
No, and be careful with anyone who blurs that line. We are not an assessor, we do not certify, and we do not sell compliance. We build the operations software you run, with the access control, records of who did what and evidence an assessment will ask about, and we work alongside whoever is doing your readiness work.
Is your software CMMC certified?
No software is, and any vendor claiming otherwise is selling you something. Organizations are certified, not products. What a product can do is make your assessment easier or harder, by controlling access properly, logging what happened and keeping data where you said it would be. We take that part seriously.
Does custom software make compliance harder than buying off the shelf?
Sometimes, and sometimes it makes it easier, so it's worth thinking through. A packaged product comes with a vendor who has answered these questions before, which helps. But it also sends your data places you don't control, inside a boundary you didn't draw. Custom means the system does what you need and nothing else, hosted where you choose, with access rules that match the roles you really have. For a shop combining five tools into one, it usually makes the problem smaller.
We already have a consultant. How does this fit?
Easily, and it's the usual arrangement. They run the assessment and own the readiness plan, and we build or rebuild the systems that keep coming up as findings. We'd rather work alongside them than replace them, and we're happy to answer their questions about how something is built.
We're a machine shop, not a software company. What would you even build?
Usually whatever is held together by spreadsheets today: job tracking from quote to shipment, routing and scheduling, certifications and material traceability, and the customer paperwork around it. The difference on the CMMC side is that we build it knowing it will be assessed, which is a different starting point from a developer who has never heard of CUI.
Tell us what's slowing your business down.
In a free one-hour call we work out what the system needs to do and which plan it fits. Within two business days you have a written plan and a monthly number. No drawn-out proposals, no pressure.
One monthly fee · Built, hosted & improving · You own the custom code