The Platform

Compliance enforced the moment AI acts.

Most tools check the rules once, when code is written. SpecOps keeps checking, so an action that was fine a minute ago but is not fine now gets stopped before it ships.

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Engineered Against

The regulations we saw coming.

Architected ahead of the rules on the horizon, not retrofitted to today’s. Tap any one to see who it hits, when, and how the platform answers it.

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What it is

The DoD’s cybersecurity certification. To win any contract touching controlled unclassified information (CUI), you must prove you meet the 110 NIST 800-171 controls, verified by an outside assessor, not self-attested.

Who’s actually impacted

Roughly 80,000 contractors and subcontractors in the defense supply chain. Flow-down means primes push the requirement to their subs, so even small shops get pulled in.

The dates

Self-assessment phase began Nov 10, 2025. Mandatory third-party (C3PAO) certification for Level 2 starts Nov 10, 2026. Full rollout by Nov 2028.

The teeth

No certification, no award. You become ineligible to bid or renew. It gates revenue, not just compliance.

Why SpecOps

Evidence mapped to CMMC controls and auto-generated POA&M from OVERWATCH + SHERPA, so you walk into the assessment with standing proof instead of a once-a-year scramble, and the In-Flight Gate governs AI actions that touch CUI.

What it is

A CMS rule forcing health plans to speed up prior authorization and share data through standard FHIR APIs.

Who’s actually impacted

Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, CHIP, and marketplace plans, and downstream, the providers and vendors who plug into them.

The dates

Operational rules live since Jan 1, 2026: decisions within 72 hours (expedited) / 7 days (standard), a specific reason for every denial, metrics reporting. The four FHIR APIs must be in production by Jan 1, 2027.

The teeth

Decision-timer compliance is mandatory now, with public metrics reporting. Missing the API deadline puts a plan out of compliance with a federal rule.

Why SpecOps

ORCHESTRATOR governs the prior-auth workflow against the 72-hour clock, and the In-Flight Gate re-checks that eligibility and clinical evidence are still current before a decision executes, so a decision never ships on stale data.

What it is

The EU’s comprehensive AI law. It sorts AI by risk; “high-risk” uses (hiring, credit, medical, critical infrastructure) carry heavy obligations.

Who’s actually impacted

The catch: it’s extraterritorial, like GDPR. If your AI’s output touches someone in the EU, you’re in scope even if you’re entirely US-based.

The dates

High-risk obligations were set for Aug 2, 2026 but were deferred to Dec 2, 2027 under the 2026 Digital Omnibus (embedded-product AI to Aug 2028). The obligations themselves, risk management, logging, human oversight, post-market monitoring, did not change.

The teeth

Fines up to €35M or 7% of global revenue.

Why SpecOps

The obligations are exactly what the platform was built for: human oversight by design (tiered enforcement + kill switch), automatic logging (audit trail), and post-market monitoring (OVERWATCH), so you’re aligned regardless of the date.

What it is

The payment-card security standard. Version 4.0’s biggest shift: security as continuous, not a once-a-year audit.

Who’s actually impacted

Anyone who stores, processes, or transmits cardholder data, merchants, processors, and service providers.

The dates

Live since March 31, 2025, when the 51 future-dated requirements became mandatory. Every 2026 assessment scores the full standard: MFA for all cardholder-data-environment access, plus a software inventory for custom code.

The teeth

Enforced by the card brands. Non-compliance risks fines, higher transaction fees, and losing the ability to process cards.

Why SpecOps

SHERPA’s compliance-aware code analysis maintains the software inventory and flags gaps continuously, and OVERWATCH’s monitoring matches 4.0’s always-on, not-annual philosophy.

What it is

New York’s aggressively enforced cybersecurity regulation for financial firms, plus the SEC’s scrutiny of how firms disclose AI use and AI-related risk.

Who’s actually impacted

Any entity licensed by NYDFS, banks, insurers, and brokers, not just big banks, and any SEC-registered firm making AI claims. NYDFS said in Oct 2024 that AI-related cyber risk, including from your own AI, is already in scope.

The dates

Part 500’s final phase (universal MFA + asset inventory) took effect Nov 1, 2025; the first certification reflecting it is due April 15, 2026. The SEC has pursued “AI-washing” enforcement against firms overstating AI.

The teeth

Personal liability: CEOs and CISOs personally certify compliance. Fines up to $30M (a $2M settlement with a small insurance agent in Aug 2025 shows even small firms are targets).

Why SpecOps

Tier-invariant compliance gives you one control plane across PCI, NYDFS, and SEC at once, with audit trails that make the executive certification defensible instead of aspirational.

What it is

The OMB directive governing how federal agencies adopt AI responsibly, anchored to NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework.

Who’s actually impacted

Federal civilian agencies, and the contractors who build and deliver AI to them, who must meet the same governance bar.

The dates

M-25-21 issued April 2025; ongoing. Agencies must inventory AI use cases, designate Chief AI Officers, and apply risk-management practices to high-impact AI.

The teeth

Non-conforming AI can’t be deployed in-agency. For a vendor, failing the governance bar means your AI doesn’t get bought.

Why SpecOps

The platform produces the governance evidence agencies now require, risk classification (SHERPA), continuous monitoring (OVERWATCH), governed execution with human oversight (ORCHESTRATOR), mapping directly to NIST AI RMF.

The Architecture · One Orchestra

Most tools hand you one instrument. SpecOps conducts the whole orchestra.

Governance is not a single check. It is many parts playing to the same score, in time, every time. SpecOps is the only platform that runs all of it as one. Tap any part to hear what it does.

Why this is the most advanced governance stack

Other tools give you a player. SpecOps gives you the composer, the conductor, the ensemble, and a performance that gets better every time it plays.

Most governance products do one or two parts: they watch, or they block. SpecOps runs all of it as one, working together. It reads the score, directs the action, listens across the whole ensemble, and tightens with every performance. One platform, designed for commercial, GovCloud, and FedRAMP environments.

Tap any part to drill in

Execution Boundary

In tune a moment ago is not in tune now. A drifted part gets cut off at the boundary.

Shown: the parts and how they play together

Sealed: trade-secret mechanism

Interactive Demo · In-Flight Decisioning

The move no other tool makes.

Blocked by real-time changes while in transit.

Tap through it. An approved deploy gets stopped because the state it relied on went stale mid-flight.

EXECUTION CLOCK09:00:00

LIVE STATECURRENT

deploy payment-service v2.3.1

action_issued · awaiting evaluation

⚠ 09:08:14 · OVERWATCH: CVE-2026-3017 detected · downstream compliance posture invalidated

re-checked the moment it runs, not when it was written

State changed since approval. Action blocked before it shipped.

✕ REFUSED

✓ immutable audit record produced

The action was valid. SpecOps still stopped it, because the world changed after approval. That is the move no other tool makes.

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The Composer · Five Engines, One Platform

Watch a CMMC finding close itself.

Three engines work together. SHERPA dispatches, OVERWATCH confirms, ORCHESTRATOR governs. FLEX runs the workflow underneath. An immutable audit record falls out the other side. Tap to send a finding through.

“A CMMC finding enters. Watch the engines close it, and leave an audit trail behind.”

IN FLIGHTNIST 800-171 AU-2 gap · awaiting entry

OPEN

SHERPA Command

Scores compliance readiness, fingerprints the finding, dispatches to the engines.

OVERWATCH Detection

Three-model divergence confirms the gap: tracked work says done, actual state shows 10 of 16 log categories, baseline requires 16.

ORCHESTRATOR Governance

Governs the remediation through the In-Flight Gate, re-checked the moment it runs before any change executes.

FLEX Workflow

Runs the remediation workflow, compliant by construction, and emits the POA&M evidence record.

↺ 4 FEEDBACK CHANNELSThe outcome feeds back. The next AU-2 finding resolves faster, because the platform learned from this one.

✓ GAP CLOSED · EVIDENCE EMITTED

Splunk plus ServiceNow does not equal SpecOps. CrowdStrike plus Drata does not either. The emergence requires the triangular topology the patents cover. Two tools wired together cannot produce this.