Concura

The senior-assessor expertise that takes a DIB contractor from 320 NIST 800-171A objectives to a defensible CMMC Level 2 SSP — at one-fifth 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 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 subscription product. Your team reads the assessor's analysis, authors your own SSP narrative using guided voice or text tools, and produces a personalized SSP package — all without leaving the platform.

When you need a real human assessor — for a specific question, a tricky scoping decision, or a pre-assessment review — you book paid time directly with the senior assessor through Concura Consult.

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

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

Concura is built around the same compliance posture its customers are being assessed against. Your authored SSP content — the narratives, the voice transcripts, the company profile you fill in, the logo you upload — lives 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 access, your database, your uploaded files all live inside the FedRAMP High boundary
The boundary between Concura's public marketing surface and the surface that holds your data is enforced at the authentication and routing layer — your data never transits an unauthorized surface

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 one your contract requires.

What you get

Concura Reference — $3,000 / year

Access to Concura's full reference library:

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 on the Implementation tab — Microsoft GCC High focus, AWS GovCloud and other platforms forthcoming
The Delta Corp example SSP package — a complete, fictional-OSC system security plan that demonstrates a defensible CMMC L2 implementation in Microsoft GCC High with AVD; 110 controls, 320 sub-objectives, full implementation narratives
Knowledge Base with cross-control assessor expertise and vendor deep-dives
CMMC Enclave Architecture decision guide (Microsoft, AWS GovCloud, dedicated enclave patterns)
Completion tracker for your team's progress through the catalog
Community access
Annual content updates as CMMC and NIST guidance evolves

Concura Interview — +$5,000 / year (14-day trial for Reference subscribers)

An AI-assessor-driven interview that produces your SSP, on top of Reference:

Per-control authoring panel with a Speak button (voice input), AI cleanup, and AI Refine
The Concura example narrative loads as your starting content — already substituted with your company name, IT admin names, and CISO from your one-time company profile
Customer data stored in Microsoft Azure GCC High — FedRAMP High Authorized as a platform
Personalized SSP .docx generation on demand — your company name, your logo, your authored narratives, ready for assessor review
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
Audit-ready voice transcript log (optional)

The 14-day trial is open to existing Reference subscribers. Try it for free; cancel anytime within the window. Auto-converts to paid on day 14 with three transparency reminders before the charge.

Concura Consult — $300 / hour, paid customers only

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

60-minute Zoom session booked through Concura's scheduling system
Direct time with the senior assessor (or, eventually, a vetted senior assessor on the Concura team)
Subjects in scope: SSP review for one or more control families, control-interpretation questions, scoping questions, mock-assessment Q&A, pre-assessment readiness checks
Available only to paying Reference or Interview subscribers — your subscription is your eligibility
Subject to assessor availability — typically 3–8 hours per week are bookable; busy weeks may push out by 2–3 weeks
Prepaid via Stripe; non-refundable if customer cancels less than 24 hours before
1-hour minimum; future packs (4-hour bundles, async questions, SSP family reviews) coming based on demand

The math

Approach	Year 1 cost	Time to a complete SSP	Senior-assessor expertise included
Traditional CMMC consulting engagement	$25,000 – $75,000	6 – 12 months	Yes — the consultant authors with you
Concura Reference alone	$3,000	Self-paced; teams typically 8–12 weeks	Yes — in the content
Concura Reference + Interview	$8,000	4–8 weeks of in-platform authoring	Yes — in the content + AI authoring
Concura + 10 hours of Consult per year	$11,000	4–6 weeks + assessor checkpoints	Yes — in the content + AI + live human

Concura Reference + Interview + 10 hours of Consult is less than half of even 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 authoring 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 Reference subscriber's flow: read the relevant control content on their schedule, take notes, document their implementation in their own preferred format using the Delta Corp example as a reference. Roughly 30 minutes per week, 8–12 weeks to a full draft.

A typical Reference + Interview subscriber's flow: open each control's authoring panel, see the Concura example narrative pre-populated with their company name, refine via voice or text edits, hit Submit. The control is done. Roughly 1–2 hours per family, 4–8 weeks to a complete SSP. Generate the personalized SSP .docx on demand throughout.

A typical Consult 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 2–4 Consult sessions during their SSP development cycle.

Common questions

Where is my data stored? Interview customer data — SSP narratives, voice transcripts, company profile, logo — is stored in Microsoft Azure Government, GCC High, which is FedRAMP High Authorized as a platform. Reference customers generate no customer-specific content; only completion-tracker state lives on the public-content infrastructure.

Do I need a Microsoft account to sign in? No. Concura uses Microsoft Entra business-to-business guest authentication. You sign in with your existing work email; Microsoft sends a one-time passcode; you're in. No new password to remember.

What if I cancel? Reference is non-refundable after the annual commitment is active but you can cancel auto-renewal anytime; cancellation takes effect at the end of your term. Interview trial customers can cancel within the 14-day trial window for zero charge. After Interview converts to paid, the same non-refundable annual model applies.

Can I print or download content from Reference? The reference content is for online viewing within your subscription. Print and bulk export are disabled to protect the senior-assessor expertise. The Delta Corp example SSP is viewable on screen. Interview subscribers, however, can generate and download their own personalized SSP — that is the entire point of Interview.

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. Interview subscribers also get 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 — calendly.com/concura-demo (Calendly link active after demo system launch)
Subscribe to Concura Reference — concura.ai/subscribe
Email the senior assessor team directly — assessor@concura.ai

Concura is built by Consultant Works, LLC. Senior assessor: John "Senior Assessor" Sciandra, CMMC RP/RPA.