Our prices are on this page. All of them.
Most firms in this space make you sit through two calls before anyone says a number. We’d rather you work out whether we’re in your range before you spend an hour with us — so everything is published, including what isn’t included.
Prices are per month unless stated otherwise, in USD, and exclude platform licensing. Scoping determines which of these actually apply to you — most clients need two or three, not all of them.
Three ways things are priced, for three different reasons.
Nothing here is priced per user just because that’s the fashion. Each offering is priced the way its cost actually behaves — which is also why the cheapest-looking line isn’t always the cheapest outcome.
Per user
Secure Enclave, security monitoring
Every seat carries a real cost — a desktop, licensing, an agent on each machine. More people genuinely costs more, so the price follows headcount, and the rate drops as volume rises.
Flat
Compliance App, vCISO Small Business
One control set, one policy suite, one program. The practitioner effort is the same whether you have eight people or thirty, so headcount doesn’t change the price.
Banded
AI implementation
Governance work steps up at certain sizes rather than rising with each hire. Bands reflect that, and you only reprice if you cross a threshold meaningfully.
What things cost.
Setup fees are one-time. Recurring prices are monthly. Platform licensing — GCC High, Google, Copilot — is separate, and you can bring your own or buy it through us.
Security monitoring
Per user & per serverManaged EDR, managed SIEM, vulnerability management, and awareness training with phishing simulation — run by us, on the environment you already have.
| Users | Setup — one time | Per user, per month |
|---|---|---|
| 1–15 | $1,500 | $36 |
| 16–40 | $2,500 | $32 |
| 41–75 | $3,750 | $28 |
| 76+ | Quoted | Quoted |
| Servers | Onboarding — one time | Per server, per month |
|---|---|---|
| 1–5 | $250 each | $75 |
| 6–15 | $250 each | $65 |
| 16+ | Quoted | $55 |
Already included if you have an enclave. Security monitoring comes with both the CUI and commercial Secure Enclave — the rates above are for monitoring your existing environment, without one.
Servers are priced per device because server count doesn’t track headcount, and a server carries more licensing cost, more log volume, and a different response path than a workstation. Setup covers agent deployment, baseline tuning, alert routing, and reporting. Penetration testing, incident response, and cyber risk assessments are priced separately — testing and assessments per engagement, incident response through Expert Blocks. Coverage hours, response times, and escalation paths are defined in your agreement rather than implied here.
Secure Enclave
Per userBuilt in your own tenant — GCC High or Google Assured Controls for CUI, commercial for everything else. Security monitoring is included in both. The CUI seat is all-in.
| Users | CUI / export | Commercial |
|---|---|---|
| 1–15 | $4,500 | $2,500 |
| 16–40 | $7,500 | $4,000 |
| 41–75 | $11,000 | $6,000 |
| 76+ | Quoted | Quoted |
| Seat type | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| CUI / export controlled | $325 | Personal persistent desktop, security monitoring, the full CUI compliance program, and the Compliance App — nothing else to add |
| Commercial | $125 | Pooled virtual desktop and security monitoring |
| Power, dev, or GPU seat | Quoted | Sized to the workload |
| Monthly minimum | $500 | Applies to every enclave. A single-seat enclave pays the minimum rather than the per-user rate. |
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Managed CUI endpoint | $150 / user / mo | Physical machines with CUI at rest — CAD, engineering, graphics |
| Endpoint onboarding | $250 one-time | Per endpoint — agent deployment, baseline, validation |
On CUI seats. They aren’t pooled, and that’s deliberate. A cheaper CUI seat elsewhere may be sharing a host between users, which creates attribution and separation problems at assessment. Worth asking any provider directly.
The CUI seat is all-in. $325 per user covers the desktop, security monitoring, the full compliance program — controls against NIST SP 800-171, SSP, policy suite, POA&M, evidence, SPRS support — and the Compliance App. There is no separate App subscription to add on top. Platform licensing is the only thing billed separately. A $500 monthly minimum applies to every enclave, and setup is the same across the band — the environment costs the same to build and run whether one person or fifteen are working in it.
Compliance App
FlatYour control set, evidence, and status in one place, with credentialed practitioner review behind it. Already included if you have a CUI enclave — the rates below are for clients running it on their own environment.
| Tier | Price | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| CMMC Level 1 | $199 / mo | L1 scope, self-assessment support, knowledgebase, training |
| CUI / Level 2 | $600 / mo | Full L2 control set, evidence management, POA&M, RPA support |
| First additional framework | +$200 / mo | Beyond your base tier scope |
| Each additional after | +$150 / mo | Or take the pack below |
| Multi-framework pack | $450 / mo | Any three additional frameworks |
No setup fee, 12-month term, 10% off if you prepay annually. And an important distinction: the App is not done-for-you. You do the work in the tool and our practitioners review and support it. If you’d rather we produce the artifacts, that’s Expert Blocks — a clean handoff rather than a surprise on your invoice.
AI implementation and governance
BandedInventory, governance framework, technical configuration, monitoring, and documentation — then ongoing management.
| Users | Commercial | CUI / DIB |
|---|---|---|
| 1–15 | $3,500 | $5,500 |
| 16–40 | $4,500 | $7,500 |
| 41–75 | $6,000 | $9,500 |
| 76+ | Quoted | Quoted |
| Users | Commercial | CUI / DIB | CUI, enclave attach |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1–15 | $700 | $1,100 | $700 |
| 16–40 | $1,200 | $1,600 | $1,000 |
| 41–75 | $2,000 | $2,500 | $1,500 |
| 76–150 | $3,100 | $3,700 | $2,200 |
| 150+ | Quoted | Quoted | Quoted |
Already have a Secure Enclave? The enclave attach rate applies — the boundary, identity, and monitoring are already ours to run, so governing AI inside it costs less than governing it across an environment we didn’t build.
Secure AI Readiness Assessment — $4,500, credited against setup if you proceed within 60 days. Two exclusions worth knowing up front: end-user training and custom agent builds route to Expert Blocks, and SharePoint permission remediation is scoped separately — assistants surface anything a user can already reach, and most tenants carry years of oversharing.
vCISO
Flat & retainerFractional security leadership in two tiers, with a deliberate gap between them.
| Tier | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Small Business | $500 / mo | CIS control tracking in our workbook, a 20-minute weekly check-in with your technical lead, and a quarterly risk assessment. Advisory during the scheduled call. |
| Standard | From $2,250 / mo | 10 hours per month at $225/hr with a named practitioner. Overage billed at the same rate. No rollover. |
Small Business is tracking, not implementation. Incident response, document production, third-party risk work, questionnaires over about fifteen questions, and out-of-band requests are billed as Expert Blocks. We’d rather write that down than have the conversation later. Security monitoring is a separate service — a vCISO decides what should happen; the Cybersecurity practice is what runs it.
Expert Blocks and fixed-fee work
Per engagementBounded professional services for anything outside a subscription.
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Half day | $1,100 | 4 hours |
| Full day | $2,000 | 8 hours |
| Week | $9,000 | 40 hours |
| Affirmation Defensibility Review | $3,500 | Fixed fee — documentation and evidence review behind your SPRS self-assessment |
| Secure AI Readiness Assessment | $4,500 | Credited against AI setup on conversion within 60 days |
Typical uses: incident response, policy and artifact production, migration into the enclave, custom agent builds, training and workshops, and vCISO overage. Every agreement names Expert Blocks as the destination for out-of-scope work, so the handoff is contractual rather than a negotiation mid-project.
What’s not included.
The number that matters is the one on your invoice in month four, not the one in the proposal. These are the things that surprise people, so they’re here rather than in a footnote.
Billed separately
Real costs that aren’t ours to absorb, and that you can often supply yourself.
Deliberately out of scope
Work we don’t do, so you can plan for who does.
Routes to Expert Blocks
Bounded and quoted, so nothing bleeds quietly into a retainer.
On helpdesk specifically. We don’t run one, and we’d rather say so than do it badly. Most clients keep their existing IT provider or MSP and we work alongside them — we’ll document the boundary between the two firms so nothing lands in the gap. If you don’t have one, we can point you at MSPs who know this space.
Most clients buy two things, not everything.
The list above is a menu, not a bundle. What you actually need depends on what data you hold and what’s being asked of you — and the honest answer is often less than people expect walking in.
A deadline is driving it
An assessment, an affirmation, or a prime pushing a requirement. Usually the Compliance App plus a roadmap, sometimes a fixed-fee review to see where you stand first.
ComplianceYour data is everywhere
If controlled data is scattered, containment cuts the cost of everything downstream. Enclave plus the App, quoted as one program.
Secure EnclaveNobody owns this
If the real gap is decisions rather than tooling, start with a vCISO and add the practices underneath as they earn their place.
vCISOThings people ask before committing.
Everything on this page is published. These are the questions that come up anyway.
Do I have to start with a roadmap?
What’s included in the Secure Enclave price?
How does the setup fee work?
What if we add users later?
What counts as an “in-scope” user?
Why do servers cost more than users?
Is there a minimum contract term?
What’s not included in any of these prices?
What if I just need help with one specific thing?
Are C3PAO assessment fees included?
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