Do I need to understand the 110 controls?

No. That is the point of the box. You keep running your business and we carry the compliance work. When the assessor asks how a control is met, we answer it.

What does 'audit-ready' mean, exactly?

It means your environment and your paperwork are in a state where a C3PAO assessment can proceed. We do not perform the assessment. A C3PAO does that, independently, and we sit with you through it.

How long does it take?

Sixty days or less for most small teams. The environment itself is configured before it reaches you.

I have not won a DoD contract yet. Should I get certified now or wait?

You can start now. Some contractors get certified ahead of a bid so it is not a condition standing between them and the award. Others wait until a clause actually shows up in a contract they have won. Both are common, and CMMC-in-a-Box works the same way either way — the only difference is timing, not the work itself.

What CMMC-in-a-Box Is, and Why We Built It

You cannot lose the contract over paperwork

Maybe you already won the work, and a clause in the contract — CMMC Level 2 — means you are now being asked to become a cybersecurity expert on top of everything else you already do. Or maybe you have not won it yet, and you know CMMC Level 2 is coming up in the solicitation, so you want to be certified before you bid instead of scrambling after you win.

Either way, you have two or three people. Nobody is a full-time IT person. And the quotes you have seen run into six figures for something that does not make you a single dollar.

That is the problem we built this for.

What CMMC-in-a-Box actually is

A complete CMMC Level 2 environment, delivered to you finished.

We send you a laptop. One per computer, licensed with Google or Microsoft.

Your policies, customized to your company. Built against the Shared Responsibility Matrix — what BL King owns, what stays yours, spelled out control by control — not a generic template.

Then you are audit-ready in as little as 60 days.

Why we built it this way

Three things we learned that shaped it.

The paperwork fails more people than the technology does. Small contractors buy tools and still fail, because passing depends on your documented practice actually matching how your business runs, not just on the technology being in place. So we work with you to customize the policies. We do not hand you a template and wish you luck.

You should not have to become an IT department. You inherit our compliance environment instead of building your own. Most of the work is done before you are involved.

The honest number is worse than the official one. The Department of Defense estimates CMMC costs far below what small contractors actually pay. We would rather tell you that up front than have you find out halfway through.

Who it is for

Two to five people. Sometimes up to ten. Construction, landscaping, machining, fabrication — real trades, doing real work for the Department of Defense.

You hold a DoD contract that requires CMMC Level 2, or you are bidding on one and want certification in hand before you submit instead of racing to get it after you win. Either position works. There is no IT person on staff. The owner or the office manager handles technology alongside everything else.

If that is not you, say so and we will tell you honestly. Larger teams are usually better served a different way, and we would rather send you to the right answer than sell you the wrong one.

How it goes

Week one. We look at what you have and what your contract actually requires. Not everything triggers Level 2, and some contractors are told they need more than they do.

Weeks two through six. The environment is configured and delivered. Your policies get written against how your business really runs.

Week seven onward. You keep working. We stay on the phone.

Sixty days or less to audit-ready for most small teams.

One thing worth being precise about: audit-ready is not the same as certified. We get you to the point where an assessment can proceed. The assessment itself is performed by a C3PAO, independently, and we sit with you through it.

Start with a question, not a contract

Take the CMMC Exposure Check. Eight questions, about two minutes, no sales call attached. It tells you whether you are dealing with FCI, CUI, or neither — which is the first thing that actually matters and the thing most contractors are unsure about.

If you would rather just talk to someone, book twenty minutes.