Your team is already using AI.
Cloister is how you prove it's governed.
Cloister deploys a governed AI interface inside your compliance boundary — CUI never leaves the frame, and every interaction becomes tamper-evident compliance evidence, automatically.
DoD suspended the CMMC audit. It kept the standard.
On July 13, 2026, DoD suspended CMMC Phase II — the third-party assessment requirement. “We're not relaxing any standards by any means,” said Under Secretary Michael Duffey. “What we're removing is the bureaucracy of the third-party assessment.”
The standard stands. The verifier is gone. NIST 800-171, DFARS 252.204-7012, and the annual SPRS affirmation — signed by a named official, personally — all remain in force. The assessor who would have co-signed your compliance claim no longer exists. Whatever you assert about your security posture, you now assert alone.
And when scrutiny arrives — a prime's flowdown inquiry, a DIBCAC assessment, a diligence team at exit — the questions are the same:
- 1.Where is AI being used in your workflows?
- 2.What data is being passed to AI tools?
- 3.Who approved these AI tools, and under what policy?
- 4.Where are the logs and evidence of oversight?
You can remediate a control gap later. You cannot go back and generate logs for AI usage that already happened. Every ungoverned month is a permanent hole in the record — in exactly the period whoever asks will ask about.
You sign the affirmation alone now. Find out what you're signing on the basis of.
Twelve NIST 800-171 control areas where self-assessments are weakest. Takes about three minutes.
The evidence engine that doesn't sleep. Inside a boundary CUI never leaves.
Containment
A governed AI interface inside your AWS GovCloud account. The boundary is architecture, not policy — nothing depends on an engineer remembering the rules at 11pm.
Evidence
Every interaction logged with full metadata, hash-chained, tamper-evident, exportable on demand. Generated continuously — not assembled after the letter arrives.
Sovereignty
Your account, your keys, your infrastructure. Trace your data and control your data, and you hold under any regulatory regime DoD lands on.
Continuity
Regulations change. Your governance stays current with monthly updates — whatever the task force decides.
What teams say after deployment.
"It is the biggest green field that ever existed. There are 400,000 companies who are figuring out how to advance their business and also comply with the CMMC enforcement."
The rules can change.
The record is yours either way.
Book a 30-minute call. We'll tell you exactly where your exposure is — and what the record needs to show.