CMMC & NIST 800-171

Compliance for DoD contractors.
Without the consultants.

Lockstep is an AI agent that builds your System Security Plan, monitors your controls, and keeps you audit-ready — continuously. For teams under 50 people.

300K+ DoD contractors need CMMC certification
$15K+ Average annual cost of existing tools
110 NIST 800-171 controls to satisfy
// Why this matters now

CMMC 2.0 is now a contract gate, not a suggestion.

Continuous monitoring required

Self-assessments are out. Third-party assessors (C3PAOs) now validate your controls on a schedule. If your evidence isn't current, you fail.

Speed to contract decides revenue

The average small contractor spends 6–9 months and $50K–$150K on their first CMMC certification. That's 6–9 months without DoD contracts.

Primes require subcontractors to be certified

Flow-down requirements mean your smallness doesn't exempt you. You need Level 2 just to touch certain contracts — and you need it fast.

Existing tools
Drata
Vanta
Sprinto
  • Annual cost: $7.5K–$100K+
  • Designed for enterprises with dedicated security teams
  • Requires weeks of configuration by your own staff
  • Evidence collection is a manual chore
  • SSP and POA&M are still your problem to write
Too expensive Too complex
Consulting firms
Big 4
GRC boutique
Virtual CISO
  • Engagement cost: $30K–$200K+
  • You still do all the evidence gathering
  • They deliver a report, not a running system
  • Certify once, forget — no continuous monitoring
  • They're gone when the audit's over
Too slow Too expensive

Small DoD contractors have no good option.
Until now.

// How Lockstep works

One agent. Full CMMC coverage.

Lockstep replaces the compliance consultant, the GRC tool, and the dedicated internal resource — with a single AI agent that works continuously.

01

Inventory your environment

Upload a simple list of your hardware, software, cloud services, and user accounts. Lockstep maps your tech stack against the NIST 800-171 control families automatically.

02

AI generates your SSP and POA&M

Your System Security Plan and Plan of Action & Milestones are drafted from your inventory — complete with control descriptions, implementation status, and risk scores for each of the 110 controls.

03

Evidence collected continuously

Lockstep monitors your cloud, identity, endpoint, and email tools every hour. Screenshots, logs, and config snapshots are collected and tagged to the right control — automatically.

04

Audit-ready on demand

Generate a complete evidence package for your C3PAO assessor in minutes. Export as structured documentation with audit trail and control coverage summary.

Frameworks covered
CMMC Level 2 NIST 800-171 Rev 2 NIST 800-172 DFARS SPRS scoring

You already know what compliance costs.
Now there's a better path.

Lockstep is built for the 300,000 small contractors who can't afford enterprise tools and don't have time for consultants. AI-native compliance — affordable, continuous, and built by people who've been inside the requirements.

Autonomous agent Continuous monitoring Full SSP generation C3PAO audit packages