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. The part nobody mentions until late is that the software you run is part of the scope. The moment a drawing, a traveller or a spec carrying Controlled Unclassified Information lands 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
Travellers, drawings, quotes and job packets, on a shared drive or in an inbox, with no access control worth the name and no record of who opened what. It is 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 is assessed, and a system nobody can produce an access review for is a problem you inherit at the worst moment.
Every new tool adds surface
Another SaaS product means another vendor, another data flow and another set of questions at assessment time. The cheapest tool is rarely the cheapest once it is in the boundary.
The score is a bid gate now
A current, honest score is checked before award. Whatever you think of the regime, it decides which contracts you can pursue.
The consultant finds the gaps, and then what
An assessment tells you what is wrong. It does not fix the software that caused half of it, and that is 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 real role-based access, audit trails on every write, and a sensible answer to where the data lives.
CUI out of spreadsheets
The travellers, drawings and job packets moved into a system with permissions, versioning and a record of who accessed what, which is the evidence an assessor actually asks for.
Fewer systems, not more
One platform your operation runs on shrinks the boundary rather than widening it. Every tool you retire is one fewer data flow to document.
Built around Microsoft 365 rather than beside it
Single sign-on against the tenant you already run, including government cloud environments, so identity and access are managed in one place instead of two.
Evidence that falls out of normal use
Access reviews, audit logs and change history produced because the system works that way, not assembled the week before an assessment.
Platforms for the firms that serve you
We also build for the MSPs and consultancies running readiness practices, including a multi-organization CMMC platform with scoring computed from the official catalog.
Proof from your world
Two promises the software industry hates making
One monthly fee, starting at launch
Design, development, hosting, and support in one number you can budget like rent. No hourly meters, no change-order invoices, and no per-seat fees that grow with your team. Billing does not begin until version 1.0 is live and your team is using it.
See the plans →You own the custom code. All of it.
The repository, the documentation, and the infrastructure are in your name from day one. If you ever leave us, you take everything and any developer can pick it up. No ransom, no rebuild, no being trapped in 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, audit trails 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. That part we take seriously.
Does custom software make compliance harder than buying off the shelf?
It cuts both ways and it is worth thinking about honestly. A packaged product comes with a vendor who has answered these questions before, which helps. But it also comes with data flows you do not control and a boundary you did not draw. Custom means the system does what you need and nothing else, hosted where you chose, with access rules that match your actual roles. For a shop consolidating five tools into one, it usually shrinks the problem.
We already have a consultant. How does this fit?
Cleanly, and this is the normal arrangement. They run the assessment and own the readiness plan; we build or rebuild the systems that keep turning up as findings. We would rather be in the room with them than replace them, and we are happy to answer their questions about how something is built.
We are a machine shop, not a software company. What would you even build?
Usually the thing currently held together by spreadsheets: job tracking from quote to shipment, routing and scheduling, certifications and material traceability, and the customer paperwork around it. The CMMC angle 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 map what the platform needs to do and tell you which tier it lands in. Within two business days you have a written plan and a monthly number. No proposal theater, no pressure.
One monthly fee · Built, hosted & improving · You own the custom code