AI-native Agent-as-a-Service for CMMC readiness and compliance operations
Enclave AI™ is AI-native Agent-as-a-Service (AaaS) for CMMC readiness and compliance operations. AI agents perform the recurring measurement, evidence, documentation and readiness workload; accountable humans retain approval, affirmation and professional judgment. Not SaaS. Not consulting. Not a C3PAO. Operated by ElasticD3M, LLC, a Texas limited liability company.
Enclave AI™ establishes and evidences, on a recurring schedule, the cyber-compliance state that an accountable official, independent assessor, prime contractor or government organization needs to verify.
Built for the DIB. Agents perform the recurring work. People keep accountability, authorization and professional judgment.
Enclave AI™ is Agent-as-a-Service for CMMC readiness. It is built, operated, and maintained by ElasticD3M, LLC.
Enclave AI™ is an assurance architecture. It converts machine-observed state into controlled, verifiable compliance evidence that each permissioned party can use on the contractor’s grant, without any of them reconstructing the same state. It is an operating layer for measuring, performing and documenting DIB CMMC compliance work, with SHA-256 hashed evidence and Ed25519-signed evidence certificates that make later changes detectable. It relies on the required professional judgment of accountable officials and on the expertise of C3PAOs and the other existing ecosystem stakeholders. The agents take on the repetitive compliance labor; they do not replace accountable officials, assessors or required professional judgment.
The platform delivers CMMC Level 2 readiness infrastructure to Defense Industrial Base subcontractors, and gives C3PAOs a consent-gated partner dashboard for the OSAs they add to their pipeline. The work is performed by coordinated AI agents; the customer’s designated executive can approve or disapprove each delivered document, and only an approval adopts it as the company’s position; delivery does not wait for that ruling.
The output is a CMMC Level 2 readiness package: your highest-impact control gaps against the 110-control, 320-objective NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 2 baseline, a draft Plan of Action and Milestones sequenced for executive review, your SPRS posture each cycle, and your System Security Plan and Evidence Library Index building out as your environment data accrues. Your framework target is your choice: NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 2 (110 requirements, 320 assessment objectives; required and scored) by default, or NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 3 (97 requirements, 422 assessment objectives; emerging, no DoD score exists), selected at intake or from your workspace. CMMC Level 2 is bound to NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 2 today: 32 CFR 170.14(c)(3) states that the CMMC Level 2 security requirements are identical to the requirements in NIST SP 800-171 R2.
We make life easier for the OSAs preparing for assessment, the C3PAOs assessing them, and the RPOs guiding them. We do not conduct assessments: self-assessments are the OSA’s own, and certification assessments are conducted by independent Cyber AB-authorized C3PAOs or DCMA DIBCAC. That separation is permanent.
Built so the state you affirm is the state whoever verifies can check.
Enclave AI starts from machine measurement of configuration state for every connected source, and uses intake answers only for scope that is not connected. The question is not whether someone completed a questionnaire. It is whether the control is operating, and whether that can be shown as of the last measurement, with the date of that measurement on the record.
Enclave AI™ is dedicated to one outcome: a measured, evidenced compliance state an Affirming Official can affirm and whoever verifies can check. Whoever verifies may be your own Affirming Official, a C3PAO, or DIBCAC; each reads from the same recorded state, within what you grant.
To protect that outcome, Enclave AI™ stays permanently on your side of the table. We prepare you for assessment; independent, Cyber AB-authorized C3PAOs perform it. That separation is exactly what gives a certification its integrity, so by deliberate design we hold no C3PAO authorization and never will. Your assessor stays independent, and your certification keeps its full weight.
Enclave AI™ delivers readiness work product in place of billable consulting hours. Subscribers receive completed work product produced by AI agents and delivered for review: the System Security Plan, the POA&M, the evidence library index, and an SPRS score estimate your team uses when it enters its own score in SPRS. Your designated executives can approve or disapprove each deliverable; delivery does not wait for that ruling.
Enclave AI™ is purpose built for CMMC, end to end, engineered around CMMC Level 2 readiness, NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 2, and the assessment procedures under NIST SP 800-171A. CMMC readiness is all Enclave AI™ does: Level 2 today, and a Level 1 offer that is built and not yet open for purchase.
We ran the numbers in April 2026. In July the Department suspended Phase 2 to review CMMC’s burden.
ElasticD3M began building Enclave AI™ in April 2026, against the clearest deadline in the defense industrial base: under 32 CFR 170.3(e), CMMC Phase 2, which adds Level 2 (C3PAO) certification to applicable solicitations, was scheduled to begin on November 10, 2026, one year after Phase 1. The Department’s Regulatory Impact Analysis for 32 CFR part 170 (docket DoD-2023-OS-0063, page 12) estimated that 76,598 entities would need a Level 2 certification assessment, and its cost estimate (89 FR 83092, October 15, 2024) put a small entity’s three-year cost for a Level 2 certification assessment and affirmations at $104,670, assuming the NIST SP 800-171 requirements were already implemented. We built the platform for the work behind that figure: scheduled re-measurement, programmatic documentation, and evidence with SHA-256 hashes and signed certificates, at a published subscription price.
On July 13, 2026, the Department of War suspended the CMMC Phase 2 transition (Under Secretary of War memorandum, July 13, 2026). During the suspension, solicitations may require only CMMC Level 1 (Self) or Level 2 (Self) assessments, and the memorandum says the DoW Chief Information Officer is initiating a 60-day review of CMMC to ensure the Defense Industrial Base remains secure without imposing significant burden on small and non-traditional businesses, with further guidance to follow at its conclusion. It did not suspend the obligation to know and prove your cybersecurity state: the memorandum keeps DFARS 252.204-7012 in effect and keeps the Level 1 and Level 2 self-assessments. Under 32 CFR 170.22, an Affirming Official affirms continuing compliance after every assessment and annually thereafter, and DFARS 252.204-7019 and 7020 require a current NIST SP 800-171 assessment score in SPRS. Enclave AI™ establishes, maintains and evidences the compliance state behind those obligations, and your senior official reviews it before deciding what to affirm. That standing obligation is what Enclave AI™ was built to carry, and it is what the agents deliver today. Patent Pending, with development on record from April 2026.
Enclave AI™ was built from technical assurance, not from the conventional GRC and documentation workflow. The market has long asked “How do I prepare for and pass my CMMC assessment?” That question produced checklist software, document repositories, consultants, SSP generators, POA&M managers and evidence folders. The question that matters now is different: “How do I continuously know that the compliance state I am affirming is accurate, and how can I prove it?” Answering it takes an assurance system.
Enclave AI™ is an assurance system, not another CMMC compliance platform. It establishes, maintains and evidences cyber-compliance state; CMMC is the framework that state is evaluated against today. In one line: ai4cmmc.ai measures and evidences the cybersecurity controls underlying CMMC, on a recurring schedule, so contractors can know whether the compliance state they are affirming is actually true.
Built, tested on synthetic subscriptions, and hardened week over week since April 2026.
Enclave AI™ is built and running in production. Its agents run end to end on synthetic test subscriptions, from purchase through intake and measurement to delivered documents. It has been hardened week over week since April 2026: code changes in 22 of the 26 weeks from April through September 2026, and more than 16,000 automated tests that run on every change and, since June 2026, on a weekly schedule.
What remains to prove is not whether the agent architecture works. It is how the system performs, what it costs to operate, and how useful its evidence is in real Defense Industrial Base customer environments.
- Built (complete)
- Tested on synthetic subscriptions (complete)
- Hardened week over week (complete since April 2026, and ongoing)
- Deployment in customer environments (next)
- Measured customer results (after that)
The difference between AaaS, which means “Agent As A Service,” and SaaS, which means “Software As A Service.”
SaaS sells you a subscription plus homework: the software holds the forms, and your people spend the labor hours filling them in, every cycle, for every entity. That does not scale. In AaaS the agents do the work. They measure, collect and record evidence, draft and maintain the documents, and deliver a report for a named person to approve or deny. People keep accountability, authorization and professional judgment.
SaaS (the broader GRC market)
- You log in. You do the work. The software organizes it.
- Configurable for many frameworks. CMMC is one option among many.
- Good for compliance teams that already exist.
AaaS (Enclave AI™)
- You hit submit on intake. AI agents do the work. You make executive calls.
- Purpose built for CMMC Level 1 and Level 2. Nothing bolted on.
- Built for DIB shops that don’t have a compliance team.
- No billable hours. The agents run on a schedule; you review and approve each deliverable.
Regulatory anchors & disclosures
Enclave AI™ is an AaaS provider on the readiness side of the CMMC ecosystem. It serves the OSAs preparing for assessment, the C3PAOs assessing them, the RPOs guiding them, and the MSPs, MSSPs and ESPs supporting them. We do not conduct assessments: self-assessments are the OSA’s own, and certification assessments are conducted by independent Cyber AB-authorized C3PAOs or DCMA DIBCAC. The separation is permanent.
CUI handling: Sensitive customer information remains within the customer’s controlled environment; the readiness plane receives only the authorized configuration telemetry necessary to establish compliance state. The architecture is designed so FCI/CUI does not need to enter the central readiness plane. Enclave AI™ does not request, accept, or handle Controlled Unclassified Information in the readiness layer (the boundary, stated precisely).
Right fit: the Level 2 tiers are designed for DIB contractors with CUI in the environment; the free gap check and the Level 2 Readiness Snapshot show fit before you subscribe.
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Enclave AI™ by ai4cmmc.ai is an architecture in which AI agents perform measurement, evidence collection and validation, drift detection and artifact maintenance while humans retain judgment, authorization and accountability. Computers do the computing; humans do the executive analysis, review, judgment and data-driven decision-making.
Validation here means the agents check that each evidence record is complete and in form; files your team supplies stay with you, and what they show is your team’s statement.