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 OSAs 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 revenue stream to the referrals you don’t assess.

You earn a 20% revenue share on OSAs you refer to us for readiness and do not assess yourself, for the first 12 months of that customer’s paid relationship, across every offering they purchase, from the $799 CMMC Readiness Snapshot through the subscription tiers to post-certification Sentinel monitoring. Reconciled monthly per the signed agreement. Your assessment independence stays intact by design, no fee ever attaches to an OSA you assess. 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 OSA 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 Partner Program, mechanics

The referral and revenue side of the partnership, broken out.

• Referral. You identify an OSA in your pre-assessment pipeline, get their consent, and submit them through the partner channel. That creates a timestamped referred-customer record.
• Partner share. 20% of gross revenue on that referred customer for the first 12 months of their paid relationship with us, across every offering they buy, reconciled monthly against attributed OSA revenue. The share applies only to OSAs you refer and do not assess yourself, so no compensation ever creates a financial interest in an assessment you perform. Automatic Stripe Connect payouts are on the near roadmap; until then, share is paid manually on the same monthly cadence.
• Every offering counts. The $799 CMMC Readiness Snapshot, the Standard, Fortress, and Sovereign subscription tiers, and Sentinel post-certification monitoring ($1,995/mo). One referral, one revenue share across the whole first year of the relationship.
• Customer ownership. The customer relationship is yours. Renewal conversations happen through you, not us. When you add an OSA to your pipeline, the notice they receive names your firm as their assessment partner. Deliverables themselves render on Enclave AI™ branding; partner-branded report headers are not available today.
• Triennial reassessment hand-back. Six months before the OSA’s next reassessment, your firm is notified directly and gets first right of refusal on the engagement. The customer’s 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.

See the assessor view before you commit. Your partner dashboard shows every OSA you have referred in one pipeline: their self-reported SPRS score, readiness stage and progress, the next step in front of them, their last activity date, and the target assessment date you set. Your client sees the same measurement from their own workspace, so status conversations start from one number instead of two. See a sample of the assessor dashboard and the client workspace →

How the engagement starts

Email hello@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.