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Engineering notes on CMMC, OSCAL, and why the GRC tooling you've seen isn't the GRC tooling you need.

The SSP is code. Stop treating it like a Word document.

2026-04-12 · 8 min read · architecture

Why we deliver System Security Plans as Goal Structuring Notation assurance cases, assembled from a signed pipeline. Every Solution node points at machine-verifiable evidence.

Why CMMC L2 breaks every general-purpose GRC platform.

2026-04-12 · 6 min read · buyer guide

Vanta, Drata, and Hyperproof are good at SOC 2 and ISO 27001. CMMC L2 is a different problem. The difference isn't controls — it's where the controls run and who owns the evidence.