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    We Built JAXBERT Because Small Defense Contractors Deserve Better Than a $200K Consulting Bill

    James McMurryApril 9, 20265 min read

    The CMMC Level 2 deadline is real. Phase 1 self-assessments are required in new contracts right now. C3PAO assessments start November 2026. And the consulting firms are lining up to charge $80,000 to $200,000 to hand you a binder full of findings and walk out the door.

    We've watched this play out for years. Good companies, solid contractors, doing meaningful work for the DoD, and they're getting crushed by a compliance process that was never designed for a 50-person shop. 110 practices. 320 assessment objectives. 14 control families. Hundreds of pages of SSP documentation. Most teams stare at this and freeze.

    That's why we built JAXBERT.

    What JAXBERT Actually Does

    JAXBERT is a CMMC Level 2 compliance platform. Not a checklist. Not a GRC tool built for Fortune 500 companies and stripped down for small business. It was built from the ground up for defense contractors who handle CUI and need to pass, not just prepare.

    The platform walks you through a 5-stage workflow: set up your organization, assess all 110 NIST 800-171 practices, prioritize and remediate your gaps, generate your documents, and produce a complete C3PAO assessment package. At every step, you know exactly where you are and what comes next.

    Your SPRS score updates in real time as you work. The AI compliance assistant translates every practice into plain English, writes remediation plans for your specific gaps, and answers questions 24/7. When you're ready, JAXBERT generates your SSP as an 80+ page Word document with your company name, your data, and your implementation details. One click. Not weeks of writing.

    Two Tiers: COMPLY and SECURE

    JAXBERT COMPLY gives you everything you need to manage the compliance process on your own: assessment workflows, document generation, evidence vault with SHA-256 integrity verification, mock assessment mode, POA&M tracking with AI-written remediation plans, and 50+ policy templates.

    JAXBERT SECURE adds ThreatHunter.ai's managed security tools on top. MILBERT handles identity threat detection and covers 9 practices. TACT-IO handles vulnerability management and covers 8 practices. ARGOS provides managed detection and response and covers 10 practices. Together, they auto-cover 27+ practices with continuous evidence collection. That cuts your manual assessment work roughly in half.

    Built by a Security Company, Not a Compliance Vendor

    This matters. JAXBERT was built by ThreatHunter.ai. We've been protecting networks for 19+ years. We're a veteran-owned SDVOSB. When we say zero-knowledge encryption, we mean your data is encrypted in your browser with AES-256-GCM before it ever hits our servers. We store ciphertext. We can't read your data even if we wanted to.

    Multi-tenant isolation runs at the database engine level with PostgreSQL Row-Level Security. Cookie-only authentication. MFA enforced. Every mutation logged. This isn't a compliance platform that needs its own compliance remediation.

    The Clock Is Running

    Here's the reality. The assessment backlog is growing. The number of certified C3PAOs is limited. If you're not preparing today, you're already behind. And the longer you wait, the more it's going to cost, whether that's a consultant's invoice or a lost contract.

    JAXBERT was built for teams of 1 to 100. You don't need a dedicated compliance department. You don't need a six-figure budget. You need a platform that meets you where you are and gets you to where the assessor needs you to be.

    Schedule a demo at threathunter.ai or reach out at sales@threathunter.ai. See your real SPRS score in under an hour.