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CMMC compliance assessment and evidence collection automation for small US defense subcontractors

Somewhere right now, a small defense shop is betting its biggest contract on a spreadsheet the IT guy updates between password resets.

A thread in r/msp caught my eye when someone described a pattern they keep running into: "a lot of small DoD subcontractors are handling their compliance assessment internally with whoever manages IT, rather than a dedicated compliance person." So the person keeping the wifi alive is also the person deciding whether the company keeps its government work. That is a lot of weight on one overloaded set of shoulders.

A tool that turns CMMC prep into a guided workflow instead of a scramble. It would take the hundred-plus security practices these companies have to prove, quietly map them to what the company already has, then walk the IT person through collecting the right evidence and closing the gaps, ending in an audit-ready package an outside assessor can actually accept. No more digging through old emails the night before the assessor arrives.

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Source. r/Compliance · Legal & Compliance

Market. Roughly 5,000 to 10,000 small US defense subcontractors face mandatory CMMC certification, part of a compliance software space Vanta and Drata have already grown into the billions.

How it makes money. A subscription of $500 to $2,000 a month per company, plus a one-time prep package in the $5k to $15k range, with managed assessment help as the upsell.

Simplest version to build. A web app that loads the CMMC control list and lets one IT person upload evidence and export a clean audit package, no fancy automation needed on day one.

We did the full breakdown on this one, and you can build it with your favorite coding agent right away.

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