Fortress runs Enclave AI™ on a twice-monthly delivery cadence, for OSAs whose C3PAO date is locked. Same read-only cloud-evidence mechanism as Standard, paced tighter, with an ElasticD3M reviewer quality-checking every readiness package. Enclave AI does the analysis work against your connected cloud’s read-only configuration data each cycle; your team reviews and approves. Your SSP and evidence binder build out across your cycles as your environment data accrues.
What Fortress adds on top of Standard
- Two scan cycles per month, not one. Your readiness package and SPRS posture report regenerate every two weeks instead of every four. The gap between “a control drifted” and “you have a deliverable that reflects the drift” gets cut in half.
- Quality assurance on every major deliverable. Every readiness package and remediation plan clears an automated quality gate before it is released, then receives a documented quality-assurance review after delivery. Anything that review changes is reissued to you.
- Pre-assessment dry run, when your C3PAO is engaged. We render your binder in your C3PAO’s preferred format and include a written index of what assessors ask for on day one and where each answer sits in your package. Delivered two weeks before your scheduled date so you can fix what doesn’t hold up.
- Priority written support at
hello@ai4cmmc.ai. Same address as Standard, with your questions worked first. Same-business-day reply in writing on any question about the work product. - Everything in Standard. The full readiness package built from live cloud scans, an SPRS submission line you can defend, your highest-impact gaps addressed by control ID against the 110-control, 320-objective NIST 800-171 baseline, with your SSP and evidence binder building out as your data accrues.
What life looks like 60 days in
You walk into your C3PAO opening meeting with a control-by-control readiness analysis your reviewer signed off on, a remediation plan whose closure dates your team actually committed to, and connected-cloud evidence whose every artifact carries a SHA-256 hash and a NIST control ID. Your assessor opens with their normal warm-up questions about 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 and your documentation already covers what they’re looking for. The hours of back-and-forth that turn a five-day assessment into a seven-day assessment don’t happen.
The 60-day timeline
- Minute 0. Stripe processes your subscription. Welcome email + intake link.
- Minutes 5–15. Intake. Connectors. Read-only, revocable in 30 seconds.
- Minutes 15–60. First scan. Your first readiness package: control-gap analysis against the 110-control NIST 800-171 baseline, your SPRS posture, and a 30-day remediation plan. ElasticD3M reviewer quality pass on your package.
- Day 14. Mid-cycle scan and refreshed readiness package.
- Day 30. Full second-cycle package. Remediation closure progress is now in writing.
- Day 45. Third bundle. Reviewer flags any control that the binder doesn’t yet cover cleanly, with a specific remediation action and a target date.
- Day 60. Pre-assessment posture report. Side-by-side: your CMMC readiness analysis, the gap items that still don’t close, and the remediation status on each.
“Why not just buy Standard and pay a consultant?”
A consultant who reads your evidence, drafts your documentation, and reviews every deliverable on a pre-assessment runway typically bills $250–$400 an hour for 80–160 hours. Fortress is the same work, in software, with the automated format-and-accuracy gate already built in, month-to-month with no long-term contract.
Not on Fortress
- Multi-entity / multi-subsidiary scope. If your CUI environment spans more than one corporate entity under one contract, Sovereign covers up to 10.
- Legacy on-premise GRC / ticketing / SIEM integration, Sovereign.
- Level 3 (CUI Specified). Not on the platform today.
The Big Idea, restated
The gap between your self-reported SPRS score and what your environment actually shows is the difference between passing your assessment and re-doing it. Fortress measures the gap twice a month, runs every deliverable through an automated format-and-accuracy quality gate, with a documented QA review after delivery, and lands you at your C3PAO opening meeting with a control-by-control readiness analysis, a committed remediation plan, and connected-cloud evidence your assessor can validate instead of author.
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