About ClearPath

A compliance platform for the people who do the work.

ClearPath GRC was built in response to a specific gap: defense contractors and their MSPs needed compliance tooling that understood their world — not a generic GRC platform with a CMMC module bolted on.

Our Story

Built from the field, not from a framework PDF.

ClearPath started where most good compliance tools start: with someone watching capable teams get blindsided by obligations they didn't know existed.

Small and mid-size defense contractors were being told to certify against CMMC Level 2 — a framework with 110 controls, 14 domains, and an assessor industry that demanded artifacts in formats most internal IT teams had never seen. They were buying generic GRC platforms, paying for consultants on top, and still arriving at pre-assessment with evidence packages that would not hold up.

ClearPath was built to fix that specific problem. Every feature in the platform traces back to a real regulatory requirement, a real assessor expectation, or a real risk we watched a client face. Nothing is in the product because a framework recommended it in the abstract.

We pair the platform with a managed support team because the judgment calls in this work cannot be automated. Software can collect evidence, generate documentation, and monitor controls. People still have to decide what counts as in-scope, how to scope a boundary, and how to respond when an assessor pushes back. That work belongs to humans who have done it before.

Our Mission

Make defense-grade compliance accessible to small contractors.

CMMC compliance was designed for the realities of large primes. Small contractors and the MSPs that serve them are absorbing the same obligations with a fraction of the budget and team. Without tooling that meets them where they are, those contractors get squeezed out of the DIB.

We exist to make sure that doesn't happen. The defense supply chain needs the contractors who already build, design, and deliver the work — not just the ones who can afford a six-figure compliance program. ClearPath is how we make that possible.

How We Operate

Four principles that shape every decision.

Built for one industry

We do not serve every market. ClearPath is purpose-built for the Defense Industrial Base and the regulatory environment that surrounds it.

Evidence over intent

We do not measure progress by checkboxes. We measure it by whether the evidence file holds up under scrutiny from a real assessor.

Software plus accountability

Software automates the mechanics. Our team owns the judgment calls. You get the speed of one and the defensibility of the other.

Transparency under NDA

Methodology, architecture, and assessor-facing documentation are shared openly with clients and prospective clients under NDA. We don't hide behind “proprietary.”

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