04/20/2026
Every compliance vendor today is a SaaS company. Login screens, dashboards, "sync across devices," multi-tenant databases.
And for most software, that's the right call.
But think about what a CMMC Level 2 readiness assessment actually contains:
→ A detailed map of which NIST 800-171 controls you've implemented
→ Every control you haven't
→ Evidence references, system names, configuration notes
→ A live SPRS score calculation
→ Your POA&M — literally a prioritized list of your gaps
In other words: a blueprint for attacking you, helpfully organized by domain.
Putting that in someone else's cloud is a choice. It should be a considered one.
Over the next few posts I'll walk through how we built the CRS CMMC Level 2 Readiness Assessment Tool as a single-file, local-first application — and why the engineering decisions that follow from "no cloud" make it materially harder to steal your data, even if your network gets breached.