Your capacity is the constraint.
Pre-readiness is the lever.

Three reasons C3PAOs partner with us

1. We expand your billable assessment capacity without hiring assessors.

Pre-readied OSCs arrive with a current System Security Plan, evidence mapped to all 320 NIST 800-171A assessment objectives with SHA-256 hash and timestamp, and a clean POA&M. Your assessors validate the artifacts rather than authoring them. That hour-per-engagement compression is what lets a single firm move from 30–60 assessments per year toward the 166–312 the RIA forecasts.

2. We add a recurring revenue stream to each engagement.

After your OSC client passes their Level 2 assessment, you offer them Sentinel ($1,499/mo continuous monitoring). Your firm is the OSC’s named monitoring contact through the triennial reassessment cycle. Partner share on subscription revenue is paid quarterly per the signed agreement. The customer relationship stays yours; we run the platform underneath.

3. We respect the boundary by design.

ElasticD3M does not perform CMMC assessments and does not pursue C3PAO authorization. We are a software vendor on the readiness side of 32 CFR part 170. The assessment side is yours, permanently. We refer; you assess; the OSC stays with you for monitoring after. There is no path under which we compete.

The bottleneck the RIA forecasts

The DoD’s Regulatory Impact Analysis (DOD-2023-OS-0063-0003, page 26) projects 17,127 new Level 2 Certifications in Year 4 of phase-in and 32,121 in Year 7. Distributed across the 103 authorized C3PAOs (CyberAB Marketplace), that is 166 assessments per firm per year at Year 4 and 312 at Year 7.

The RIA itself names “availability of C3PAOs” as a cost driver (page 8) and acknowledges that the Department “cannot scale its existing cybersecurity assessment capability to conduct on-site assessments of approximately 220,000 DoD contractors and subcontractors every three years” (page 8).

Sources: DoD CMMC RIA, 32 CFR part 170 (DOD-2023-OS-0063-0003), pages 8, 12, 26. CyberAB Marketplace authorized C3PAO list.

The Sentinel Partner Program, mechanics

The recurring revenue side of the partnership, broken out.

• Trigger. An OSC you assess passes their Level 2 certification. You offer them Sentinel continuous monitoring as the next step in the engagement.
• Product. $1,499/mo (or $14,995/yr). Monthly batch sampling against the 110 NIST 800-171 controls, with critical-drift exceptions firing in real time. Each sample is mapped to the specific 800-171A assessment objectives.
• Customer ownership. The customer relationship is yours. Renewal conversations happen through you, not us. Co-branded report headers (your firm + Enclave AI™) ship in week one.
• Partner share. Partner share on Sentinel subscription revenue is set in the signed Partner Agreement and reconciled quarterly against attributed OSC revenue. Stripe Connect-based automatic payouts are on the near roadmap; until then, share is paid manually on the same cadence.
• Triennial reassessment hand-back. Six months before the OSC’s next reassessment, your firm is notified directly and gets first right of refusal on the engagement. The customer’s Sentinel subscription continues uninterrupted across the hand-back.
• Drift alerting between assessments. Sentinel flags posture degradation between your scheduled touchpoints with the customer, so reassessment conversations start from a known posture, not a surprise.

How the engagement starts

Email partners@ai4cmmc.ai with one paragraph about your firm, authorization status, typical engagement size, current geographic or sector focus. We reply with the partner one-pager and the agreement template. Decision happens on your timeline, in writing, async. No sales call.

We would be honored to have the opportunity to earn your firm’s partnership on this work.