Concura

The senior-assessor expertise that takes a DIB contractor from 320 NIST 800-171A objectives to a defensible CMMC Level 2 SSP — at a fraction of the cost of a traditional consulting engagement.

The CMMC challenge

If your business handles Controlled Unclassified Information for a Department of Defense contract, you're being assessed against the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification — Level 2. That means 320 NIST 800-171A assessment objectives to address, document, and defend.

The standard playbook is to hire a CMMC consulting firm. That looks like:

$25,000 to $75,000 for an SSP development engagement
6 to 12 months of calendar time with back-and-forth
A senior assessor whose attention you're competing for with their other clients
A finished SSP you didn't write and may not fully understand

For most small and mid-size DIB contractors, that's the only option. Concura is the alternative.

What Concura is

Concura packages a senior CMMC assessor's expertise on every one of the 320 assessment objectives into a single subscription product. Your team reads the assessor's analysis, stands up its CMMC environment with a guided build, authors its own SSP narrative using guided voice or text tools, and produces a personalized, exportable assessment package — all without leaving the platform.

When you want hands-on help standing up the environment, you can add CWRA Setup Assistance. When you need a real human assessor for a specific question, a tricky scoping decision, or a pre-assessment review, you book Concura Consulting time directly.

Built by a senior CMMC assessor, not by software people guessing what compliance is.

Your data is stored to the standard you're being assessed on

Concura stores your authored content in the same cloud environment its customers' CUI programs live in. Your SSP narratives, voice transcripts, the company profile you fill in, the logo you upload, and your build evidence are stored in Microsoft Azure GCC High, which is FedRAMP High Authorized as a platform.

This is a real architectural commitment, not a marketing line:

Microsoft Azure GCC High is the same cloud environment certified for handling Department of Defense Impact Level 5 data
FedRAMP High is the most stringent FedRAMP authorization tier, vetted by the Joint Authorization Board including DoD and DHS
Your application data, your database, and your uploaded files are stored inside the FedRAMP High boundary

Most CMMC-adjacent tools (Vanta, Drata, Hyperproof, etc.) run on commercial cloud and were built around SOC 2 / ISO 27001 audiences. Concura is built for DFARS 7012 contractors. The infrastructure choice reflects the audience.

When your C3PAO assessor asks where your SSP authoring data lives, the answer is Microsoft GCC High.

What you get — one subscription

Concura Platform — $8,000 / year

The complete platform, in a single annual subscription:

All 320 NIST 800-171A assessment objectives with senior-assessor analysis on the Concura Insight tab
Verbatim NIST and CMMC source text on the Reference tab
Vendor-specific implementation guidance — Microsoft GCC High focus, AWS GovCloud and other platforms forthcoming
The AI assessor interview — a per-control authoring panel with a Speak button (voice input), AI cleanup, and AI Refine; the Concura example narrative loads as your starting content, pre-substituted with your company specifics from a one-time profile
The CWRA guided build — the CW Reference Architecture: sequenced scripts to stand up your CMMC Level 2 enclave in Microsoft GCC High, with verification checklists and evidence capture per step
An SSP auto-drafted from your build evidence, plus matching policies and procedures
An exportable assessment package — SSP, SRM, artifact register, POA&M, and evidence checklist, ready for an assessor
The Delta Corp example SSP package — a complete, fictional-OSC system security plan demonstrating a defensible CMMC L2 implementation in Microsoft GCC High with AVD (110 controls, 320 sub-objectives)
Inheritance overrides per control (Full / Partial / None) with Concura's recommendation as a starting point
VDI / non-VDI architecture toggle for environments that handle CUI on endpoints instead of in a VDI
Knowledge Base, CMMC Enclave Architecture decision guide, completion tracker, and community access
Continuous content updates as CMMC and NIST guidance evolves
Personalized SSP .docx generation on demand — your company name, your logo, your authored narratives

CWRA Setup Assistance — $7,500 one-time (optional)

Hands-on help standing up your enclave with the CW Reference Architecture guided build:

Kickoff, scoping, and tenant-readiness review
Per-phase build guidance and troubleshooting across the CWRA flow
Evidence collection and SSP review
Assessment-package walkthrough
30 hours included at a discounted $250/hour; additional time at the standard $300/hour
Microsoft GCC High licensing is quoted separately as a pass-through

Concura Consulting — $300 / hour (optional, subscribers only)

When the tool isn't enough and you want a real human:

Direct time with a senior CMMC assessor (CCA)
SSP review for one or more control families, control-interpretation questions, scoping questions, mock-assessment Q&A, pre-assessment readiness checks
Available to active Concura subscribers — your subscription is your eligibility
Prepaid via Stripe, bought in any quantity; unused hours don't expire; non-refundable if cancelled less than 24 hours before a scheduled session

The math

Approach	Year 1 cost	Time to a complete SSP	What's included
Traditional CMMC consulting engagement	$25,000 – $75,000	6 – 12 months	The consultant authors with you
Concura Platform	$8,000 / year	Weeks of in-platform authoring	Senior-assessor content + AI authoring + the CWRA guided build + exportable package
Concura Platform + CWRA Setup Assistance	$15,500 year 1	Guided enclave stand-up + authoring	+ hands-on build help (30 hrs)
Concura Platform + 10 hours of Consulting	$11,000 year 1	+ live assessor checkpoints	+ direct senior-assessor time

Even the fullest Concura combination comes in well under the cheapest traditional consulting engagement — and you keep the authoring control, the assessor expertise, and the relationship with a senior assessor on demand.

Why this works for a senior assessor's audience

This isn't a software company trying to replicate compliance expertise. Concura was built by a senior CMMC assessor specifically because the alternative — every DIB contractor hiring a different consultant to write essentially the same SSP — is inefficient for everyone. The 320 controls are the same 320 controls for every customer; the implementation narratives differ only in your environment's specifics. Concura captures the universal expertise once and lets your team apply it to your specifics through a guided build-and-author workflow.

You're not buying generic compliance content. You're buying access to a senior assessor's expertise, packaged as a tool your team can actually use, with the safety net of being able to book that assessor's time when you need a human in the loop.

How customers actually use it

A typical subscriber's flow: stand up the CMMC environment with the CWRA guided build (or have us help via Setup Assistance), then open each control's authoring panel, see the Concura example narrative pre-populated with your company specifics, refine via voice or text edits, and submit. Technical controls draft themselves from your build evidence; governance controls are captured through the interview. Roughly 1–2 hours per family, weeks — not months — to a complete SSP. Generate the personalized SSP .docx and the full assessment package on demand throughout.

A typical Consulting booking: 1–2 hours, focused on a single tricky family (CM, AU, or IR are common) or a scoping question ("are these laptops CRMA or CUI Assets in our architecture?"). Customers tend to use a few sessions during their SSP development cycle.

Common questions

Where is my data stored? Your SSP narratives, voice transcripts, company profile, logo, and build evidence are stored in Microsoft Azure Government, GCC High, which is FedRAMP High Authorized as a platform.

Do I need a Microsoft account to sign in? No. Concura sign-in works with any email address — choose "continue with Google," or enter your work email and we'll send a one-time code. No new password to remember, no Microsoft account required.

What if I cancel? The annual subscription is non-refundable once active, but you can cancel auto-renewal anytime; cancellation takes effect at the end of your current term.

Can I print or download my SSP? You can generate and download your own personalized SSP .docx and assessment package — that's the point. Concura's reference content (the control analysis and the Delta Corp example SSP) is for online viewing within your subscription; print and bulk export of that content are disabled to protect the senior-assessor expertise.

Can my assessor see my authored SSP? Yes. Your authored SSP narratives, once generated as a .docx, are your work product. Submit them to assessors, customers, and authorizing officials as your own document. Concura provides the structure, the assessor-perspective starting content, and the authoring tools — the resulting SSP belongs to you.

Will Concura work for my architecture? The Concura content is anchored on a hypothetical OSC running Microsoft GCC High with AVD as the VDI for CUI processing, and includes a non-VDI architecture toggle for environments that handle CUI directly on endpoints. Multi-cloud variants (AWS GovCloud, etc.) are forthcoming.

Get started

Read a sample — visit concura.ai for the publicly-available sample objective pages
Schedule a 30-minute live demo — email sales@concura.ai
Subscribe to Concura — concura.ai/subscribe
Email the senior assessor team directly — assessor@concura.ai

Concura is a product of Consultant Works, LLC, led by a senior CMMC assessor (Lead CCA).