Answer a guided interview. Walk away with a readiness score, a prioritized list of gaps, and a draft System Security Plan. Built for small defense contractors.
Most options on the market are either too expensive or too thin. Here's how Baseline fits.
A Registered Practitioner drafts your SSP. Quality varies. You wait three to six months.
Download the NIST template. Stare at 110 blank narratives. Hope you got it right.
Enterprise software built for primes with security teams. Overbuilt for the small end.
A guided interview. A readiness score. A ranked gap list. An SSP draft based on your environment.
A structured interview, a clear diagnostic, and the documentation your team needs to move forward.
A guided interview — your tools, your team, your processes. Plain English, no jargon.
~60 min totalA readiness score against all 110 controls and a ranked list of gaps with suggested remediation steps to discuss with your team.
Generated in minutesSSP draft, POA&M starter template, SPRS worksheet, evidence checklist. Every narrative traceable to your answers — ready for review and refinement.
Same-day outputA score against all 110 controls based on your answers, with a ranked list of gaps to address. The first thing you want before you talk to an assessor.
110 control narratives drafted from your answers. Designed for review by you or your RP before submission.
A POA&M scaffold populated with your identified gaps. You add the remediation owners, timelines, and resources that fit your team.
A starting visual of your CUI environment scope, generated from your interview answers.
A worksheet for your SPRS submission, plus a checklist of artifacts assessors typically request.
Every narrative is structured around NIST 800-171 expectations and tagged back to the interview answers that produced it — so you know what to verify before submission.
There's no tool — and no consultant — that can guarantee an assessment outcome. Your assessor is evaluating your actual environment, not just your document. What Baseline does is tell you, before you ever meet an assessor, where you're strong and where you're exposed. The readiness report scores all 110 controls and flags assessment risk; the SSP narratives are tagged with confidence flags so you know which sections need human review.
Those platforms are priced for mid-market and enterprise — typically $15–30k/year. We're built for the small end. Diagnostic, SSP, and remediation roadmap from a single guided interview, not a platform you configure for months before it produces output.
You'd get generic narratives that don't match assessor expectations. The work isn't "write me an SSP" — it's the structured interview, the diagnostic scoring, the mapping to all 110 controls, and the orchestration that keeps your output internally consistent and traceable. The IRS publishes every tax form for free; TurboTax charges $100 because someone figured out the right questions to ask.
No — intentionally. The interview captures descriptions of how you handle CUI, never CUI itself. You can use Baseline without bringing us into your CMMC assessment boundary.
Version one is tuned for small contractors (10–50 people, cloud-only, M365 GCC High, software or services). If your environment is substantially different — heavy on-prem, manufacturing floors, classified networks — the draft will need more revision. We tell you up front in the intake whether Baseline is a good fit.
One hour of questions. A readiness report in minutes. An SSP draft the same day, ready for your review.