A developer in Boca Raton looked at the CMMC consulting market and saw small contractors facing $50,000 to $300,000 compliance bills for what is, at its core, document drafting work that software can do for a fraction of the cost. So he built the alternative.
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is not going away. Starting November 2025, defense contractors without the right CMMC level cannot hold or win DoD contracts. The deadline is real, the requirement is contractual, and the consequences of ignoring it are serious.
The problem is the market that grew up around it. MSPs and compliance consultants charge $325 per hour. Retainers run $800 to $1,500 per month over 12 to 18 months. Full System Security Plan engagements routinely reach $50,000 or more. A C3PAO assessment adds another $35,000 to $75,000 on top of that.
For a 10 or 20 person machine shop, specialty manufacturer, or technical services firm, these numbers are not just steep. They are often larger than the profit on the DoD contract itself. The result is that thousands of small contractors either skip compliance and hope they are not audited, or exit defense work entirely.
The System Security Plan is a document. It describes your environment and how you implement specific controls. Software can draft that document from a guided questionnaire at a fraction of what a consultant charges to do the same thing by hand.
That is what Verdiex does. It is not magic and it is not a shortcut around real compliance work. Your environment still has to actually implement the controls. But the documentation work, the questionnaire workflow, the SSP drafting, the SPRS score calculation, the gap tracking in a POA&M: software can do all of that for a flat monthly price instead of an unbounded billable hour engagement.
Verdiex was founded by Octavio, a software developer based in Boca Raton, Florida. He does not have a military background. He does not have a prior career in defense cybersecurity. He is a developer who saw a market problem and built a software solution for it.
That is an honest statement, and it matters because some competitors in this space lead with founder credentials, "Naval Academy grad" or "former DoD cyber," as their primary trust signal. Credentials like that are meaningful and worth noting where they genuinely exist. We do not have them, so we do not claim them.
The credibility question for Verdiex is answered differently. The product's CMMC control content, SSP logic, and control mapping will be reviewed by a Cyber AB Registered Practitioner before any contractor relies on it. A Registered Practitioner (RP) is an individual credentialed by the Cyber Accreditation Body, the official body that governs CMMC assessors and practitioners. That independent review is the accuracy guarantee. The founder's background does not affect whether the control mapping is correct. An RP's review does.
This distinction appears on every page of this site because it is legally and practically important. It deserves clear treatment here as well.
Verdiex prepares you for assessment. A C3PAO performs the assessment and issues certification. These are different things. We say this plainly on every page because an informed buyer is a better buyer, and because implying a capability we do not have would be dishonest to people making consequential decisions about their contracts.
The standard trust toolkit in this category is customer logos, named testimonials, security badges, and founder credentials. At launch we have none of those. The plan cannot pretend otherwise. Here is what we do have.
The CMMC control content, SSP logic, and control mapping will be reviewed by a Cyber AB Registered Practitioner before product launch. That independent review is the accuracy guarantee for all 110 controls.
Pricing is on the page. The methodology is documented. Data handling is explained explicitly. No sales calls required to see any of it. For a buyer quoted six figures, a public price with no hidden fees is itself a form of trust.
This site uses the real terms correctly: System Security Plan, SPRS score, POA&M, C3PAO, NIST SP 800-171 Rev 2, CUI. Precision is credibility. Sloppy terminology signals unfamiliarity with the domain; we do not have that problem.
A free trial with no card required. See the actual SSP output, the actual SPRS score calculation, the actual control mapping before spending a dollar. The product proving itself is the strongest evidence available.
We never imply we certify anyone. We never claim credentials we do not have. Saying plainly what we are and are not, where competitors get vague, reads as integrity to a skeptical buyer. That is a deliberate choice, not an oversight.
The product is being built in sequence, with each phase honest about where it is. There are no features on this page that do not exist yet without that being clearly marked.
The current phase. Site is live. Early access waitlist is open. Product is in development. RP review is budgeted and being arranged.
The full questionnaire, SSP generation, SPRS score calculator, POA&M tracker, and evidence vault. Registered Practitioner review completed before any contractor relies on it.
The Starter tier covering the 17 basic safeguarding requirements for contractors who need Level 1 only. Lower price point, broader addressable market.
Frameworks related to CMMC such as NIST CSF, FedRAMP readiness, or ISO 27001 gap analysis. These share significant overlap with the existing control library.
Partnerships with accredited C3PAOs so that Verdiex users have a clear, trusted path to formal assessment when they are ready.
Join the early access list. We will email you when the product opens and walk you through getting your first SSP draft in place.
No card required. Free trial on every plan.