Cloud AI is structurally banned in your workflow. CUI cannot leave the perimeter. CMMC L2 is a 110-control gauntlet. Excalibur is the only AI security platform built for that reality from day one.
What the cloud-AI vendors structurally cannot offer.
Data egress allowed
Zero
CMMC L1+L2 controls
127
Deployment model
Inside your ATO
Your reality
One leaked piece of CUI to OpenAI or Claude and you lose the contract, permanently.
Cloud AI is structurally banned in your workflow. The entire frontier-model security category is unusable by you, even if you wanted it. Your peers using GPT-wrapped tools are one audit away from being cut out of the prime relationship.
CMMC L2 is 110 controls. Most contractors fail their first audit. Without it, you lose primes.
Spreadsheet-based readiness is a nine-month death march. Mapping NIST 800-171 to your environment manually is the kind of work that burns out the people you need most.
Your classified networks are air-gapped. Most security tools assume a phone-home.
Cloud connectivity, license verification, telemetry pings, OTA updates. Every one is disqualifying. The vendors who say they can ship air-gapped usually mean 'except for the license check.'
The shift
Excalibur was architected from day one for the deployment model that defense contractors actually need: hardware-only, ATO-inherited, proprietary private models, and no offshore codebase. The constraints other vendors call deal-breakers are the requirements we shipped against.
What changes
Zero data egress. Every inference local. Every model owned.
Proprietary private models cleared for ATO and classified procurement. Every fine-tune happens on your DGX Spark. Nothing leaves the box, ever.
Active DoW contractor POC: hardware-only deployment, no SaaS, all physical at the customer site.
CMMC L1 and L2 ready in 90 days.
Govern module auto-maps findings to controls. Generates audit-ready evidence packs. Pre-audit checklist in days, not quarters. No manual spreadsheet reconciliation.
127 controls across CMMC L1 (FCI), CMMC L2 (CUI, NIST 800-171), and PCI-DSS auto-mapped today.
Customer ATO boundary inheritance. No FedRAMP delay.
Deploys inside your existing authorization perimeter. Gets authorized as part of your system, the same model Splunk, ServiceNow, and CrowdStrike use on classified networks. FedRAMP is structurally inapplicable, not a missing checkbox.
Live DoW contractor engagement: Excalibur does not require FedRAMP for their POC.
What you will actually run
Air-gapped sovereign deployment. Proprietary private models. No offshore codebase. Every module designed to ship into environments where cloud AI is disqualified by definition.
Govern · CMMC L1 + L2, NIST 800-171, PCI-DSS
Auto-generates control questions, fills them from lifecycle data, produces audit-ready reports. Findings auto-map to controls. No manual spreadsheet reconciliation.
Validate · Agentic pentesting, internal/external
Customer-controlled scope. Atomic Red Team tests, MITRE ATT&CK simulations, API testing. Human-verified before any action. Zero outages to date.
Air-gapped threat intel sync
Pre-loaded CVE corpus, nuclei templates, TTP playbooks at delivery. User-controlled inbound sync from NVD, EPSS. Nothing flows out, ever.
Discover · External attack surface
Continuous EASM mapping for your perimeter. Native scanner, no third-party cloud dependency, no asset data leaving your environment.
Correlate · Cross-tool intelligence
Direct integrations for Wiz, CrowdStrike, Qualys, Defender, Tenable. Pulls data in, deduplicates, presents unified intelligence. One-way ingestion, never egress.
Model · AI threat modeling
STRIDE, ATT&CK, kill-chain modeling against your architecture. Maps to your CUI flows, classification boundaries, and ITAR perimeters.
Predict · Attack-path forecasting
Forward-looking risk against the systems you actually own. 30-day horizon at 89% confidence. Where the adversary will land, before they do.
Posture · Executive reporting
Translate technical risk into program-office language. CUI flow, CMMC readiness, ITAR exposure. One dashboard for the people signing the contract.
The leverage
Lakera / HiddenLayer LLM protection
$50K-$200K+/yr
Base architecture by default
Standalone CMMC consulting
$80K-$250K engagement
Govern module · 90 days to ready
BreachLock / NetSPI continuous pentest
$100K+/yr
Validate module
Mandiant ASM + TI
$75K-$1.1M/yr
Discover + Correlate + Predict
Active DIB engagement
Active enterprise POC with a DoW contractor. On-site evaluation in May 2026. Hardware-only deployment. No SaaS, no cloud component, all physical at the customer site. Validates the exact deployment model that disqualifies every cloud-AI competitor.
See the platform that ships into environments where cloud AI cannot go. Then we talk about deployment inside your authorization boundary.