Every hour an assessor spends reconstructing an environment is an hour not spent assessing. A pre-readied OSA arrives with its record already assembled, so assessor effort can go to verification and judgment. Third-party Level 2 (C3PAO) assessments are not being designated in new solicitations while the July 13, 2026 suspension of CMMC Phase 2 is in effect (Under Secretary of War memorandum, July 13, 2026). The readiness record an OSA keeps does not depend on that schedule.
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“Can I verify current state and concentrate assessor effort on exceptions, changes and controls needing human judgment instead of reconstructing the environment every time?”
A pre-readied OSA’s record already separates those. Its evidence index names the assessment objectives nothing has answered yet. Every measurement cycle names the controls that regressed since the last one. That is where assessor judgment goes first, instead of rebuilding the environment from interviews and screenshots. Your assessors still perform the assessment.
An OSA that prepares with us would arrive with a System Security Plan from their latest cycle, an evidence index across every assessment objective of their framework target (the 320 NIST SP 800-171A objectives under Rev. 2, the default), each answered objective mapped to the artifacts that support it (with a SHA-256 hash wherever one is recorded) and each unanswered one named, and a POA&M that tracks the rest. Your assessors validate the artifacts rather than reconstructing them. We have no assessment data yet on how many assessor hours that saves.
Your partner dashboard shows every OSA you have added in one pipeline, and an OSA’s readiness signals appear there only after that OSA opts in; until then its row reads “Awaiting OSA consent”. We pay you nothing for those OSAs, by design: no fee ever attaches to an OSA you refer or assess, so nothing we pay can create a financial interest in an assessment you perform. Any gain to your firm comes from assessor time, and it does not depend on us paying you anything; our agents do the work underneath.
ElasticD3M does not perform CMMC assessments and does not pursue C3PAO authorization. We are an Agent-as-a-Service provider on the readiness side of 32 CFR part 170. The assessment side is yours, permanently. We prepare; you assess. There is no path under which we compete.
The DoD’s Regulatory Impact Analysis (docket DoD-2023-OS-0063, page 27) projected 17,127 new Level 2 Certifications in Year 4 of the phase-in and 32,121 in Year 7. Those projections assume the phase-in schedule as written; on July 13, 2026 the Department of War suspended the Phase 2 transition, and during the suspension solicitations may require only Level 1 (Self) or Level 2 (Self) assessments (Under Secretary of War memorandum, July 13, 2026, Attachment 1).
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 (docket DoD-2023-OS-0063), pages 8 and 27; the page 8 statements also appear in the final rule, 89 FR 83092 (October 15, 2024). Under Secretary of War memorandum implementing the DoW CIO’s suspension of CMMC Phase 2, July 13, 2026.
The referral side of the partnership, broken out.
See the assessor view before you commit. Your partner dashboard shows every OSA you have added in one pipeline and, for each OSA that has opted in, 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 status on their own page, so status conversations start from one number instead of two. See a sample of the assessor dashboard and the client workspace →
OSAs can also grant their MSP, MSSP or ESP a view of the same state; see For MSP / MSSP / ESP.
Your firm sets up its own seat on this page: its name, its C3PAO identifier as your firm states it, and a contact address on your firm’s email domain. A confirmation link goes to that address; opening it creates the seat and sends its private pipeline dashboard link to the same address. The platform does not check the identifier with the Cyber AB, so the seat and every page it produces show it as self-declared by the firm. Each email domain holds one C3PAO seat. For its first 14 days a new seat can send at most 3 OSA notices in any 24 hours. No sales call.
We would be honored to have the opportunity to earn your firm’s partnership on this work.
The dashboard link goes to the contact address after it is confirmed. A business email address is needed; free-mail addresses are refused. A seat whose link was lost can have it sent to its contact address again from the help page.
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