Decision Assurance Infrastructure
Summit Cognitive
§ Solutions — CMMC

Assessment objectives want proof. Not screenshots.

If you sell into the Department of Defense, CMMC is no longer optional — it arrives in your contracts, flows down to your subcontractors, and is verified by an assessor who scores objectives as MET or NOT MET based on evidence. As AI enters your CUI-handling workflows, a new question lands on your desk: how do you evidence what the AI did?

§ 01

The mandate, in plain language

CMMC assesses whether the security practices protecting Controlled Unclassified Information are actually implemented — not documented, implemented. Three realities follow for the defense industrial base.

Reality 1

Evidence is the unit of assessment

Assessors evaluate objectives against artifacts: configurations, records, demonstrations. A practice without evidence scores the same as a practice that doesn't exist.
Reality 2

AI is entering scope

AI-assisted engineering, document handling, and analysis now touch CUI workflows. Audit and accountability practices don't exempt a decision because software made it — they apply to it.
Reality 3

Evidence assembly is the cost center

Most assessment pain is not the controls — it is reconstructing proof of the controls, by hand, in the weeks before the assessor arrives.
§ 02

What Summit produces for your CMMC program

To be precise: Summit is not a certification body, and using Summit does not make you CMMC certified. What Summit does is generate receipt-backed evidence for assessment objectives touching machine-generated decisions — continuously, from the system of record.

Artifact

Receipts as assessment evidence→

Every AI decision in an instrumented workflow produces a signed, independently verifiable receipt: what was accessed, under which policy, approved by whom. Evidence your assessor can sample and verify without trusting your tooling — or ours.
Mechanism

Audit & accountability, demonstrated→

Default-deny policy in front of AI tool access, with every grant and denial recorded and replayable. The accountability story for AI in CUI workflows becomes a demonstration, not a narrative.
Artifact

Control-mapped exports→

The compliance evidence exporter renders receipts into control-mapped bundles, building on 20 published NIST 800-53 control implementation statements — the same control family CMMC practices derive from.
Posture

Published mappings, before you buy→

Our framework mappings are open and versioned. Hand them to your RPO or assessor ahead of any engagement — built by a HUBZone small business that operates in your acquisition environment.
§ 03

How to start

Begin with the AI-assisted workflow nearest your CUI boundary — the one your assessment scope will not let you wave away.

  1. 01
    Scope to your assessment boundary
    One AI-assisted workflow inside it. We map its decisions to the assessment objectives they touch.
  2. 02
    Instrument for ten days
    Receipts for every machine-generated decision, deny-by-default policy on tool access, deterministic replay verified.
  3. 03
    Hand the corpus to your assessor prep
    Receipt corpus, policy evaluation report, and findings memo — objective-aligned evidence produced continuously, not assembled the week before.

Make the AI portion of your assessment the easy part.

The 10-Day Decision Assurance Pilot instruments one CUI-adjacent workflow and delivers receipt-backed evidence your assessment prep can use — scoped below simplified acquisition thresholds.

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