Armory20x: The Shortcut AI ISVs Need for FedRAMP AI Prioritization
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) building with AI are in a mad dash to reach the top. Every week brings a new foundation model, a new vector database, a new “copilot for X.” Investors want it FedRAMP authorized yesterday so you can sell to agencies tomorrow.
The problem? FedRAMP AI Prioritization isn’t a fast pass for AI systems. It’s a prove you’re serious filter. NIST controls still apply (at least the Key Security Indicators (KSIs)), FIPS encryption still applies, and continuous monitoring still applies. The government isn’t lowering the bar; it’s asking you to clear it faster.
So, the question for AI ISVs becomes:
Do you want to spend your hard-earned venture capital hiring an army of compliance engineers and writing 700-page System Security Plans… or do you want to keep shipping actual AI features that customers care about?
That’s where Armory20x comes in.
Compliance at Cloud Speed
Traditional compliance is little more than theater: screenshots in binders, prose that says everything but nothing, and auditors playing scavenger hunt with outdated artifacts. It’s cosplay with clipboards.
Armory20x kills that deader than a pack of rowdy teenagers at Camp Crystal Lake.
Instead of evidence packages that begin to go stale the moment they’re zipped, you get live queries. Real-time checks against your actual cloud and SaaS stack, run by you, for you, whenever you want answers.
- Want to know if every Okta user has MFA enabled? Query it.
- Need to prove GCP disks are encrypted with CMKs? Query it.
- Curious which GitLab repos lack branch protection? Query it.
In query, we trust.
That’s the 20x way, continuous proof, not point-in-time theater.
Why ISVs Shouldn’t DIY This
Your engineers are brilliant. They built a semantic search engine that can ace Graduate-Level Google Proof Q&A (GPQA) benchmarks blindfolded. But do they want to spend the next nine months writing off-topic narrative statements about components they don’t know or care about and mapping implementations for AC-2 and SI-7? That’s a one-way ticket to burning out your best and brightest and chasing them into the open (and waiting) arms of your competitors.
Doing FedRAMP 20x from scratch is like building your own Tesla Gigafactory before you sell your first car. You’ll burn capital, morale, and probably your product roadmap. Think about it: instead of getting vehicles on the road and into customers’ hands, you’re pouring concrete, designing conveyor belts, and figuring out how to source lithium. That’s great if your core business is making factories. But if your mission is to build sleek AI offerings that agencies actually want to use, why are you suddenly in the compliance construction business?
You either waste time building, soup to nuts, something no one on your team is passionate about, or you step into the Armory20x. Next thing you know, you’re demoing your latest and greatest AI offerings to agencies instead of listening to your team arguing over whether least privilege is a policy doc or an IAM role.
What You Actually Get with Armory20x
This isn’t just a compliance toolkit. Armory20x is a complete acceleration platform, purpose-built for AI ISVs that need to meet FedRAMP AI Prioritization requirements without derailing their roadmap.
Here’s what you get out of the box:
- A Secure Tenant on The Armory: No need to build your own compliance factory. You inherit from a FedRAMP High Ready General Support System (GSS), giving you a secure, agency-ready baseline from day one.
- Configuration & Policy Controlled as Code: Forget 700-page Word docs that drift the moment you hit save. Every policy, control statement, and system config is managed as code – versioned, auditable, and aligned with continuous monitoring.
- Custom 20x Queries: Pre-built queries tailored to your AI environment. Need to validate GPU workloads, service account permissions, or model pipeline controls? Armory20x gives you queries mapped directly to FedRAMP KSIs.
- Customizable Dashboards: Evidence that’s actually useful. Dashboards tuned for AOs, 3PAOs, and your own engineering teams. Agencies see live compliance posture, auditors validate queries directly, and you finally ditch the endless artifact chases.
That’s the package: a turnkey compliance environment designed to keep your AI system moving at product speed while checking every FedRAMP 20x box.
Differentiators: What Makes Armory20x Unique
Every modern system generates a flood of raw compliance data, vulnerability scans, security alerts, cloud configuration drift, and telemetry from agents and pipelines. On their own, these inputs resemble an unrefined, chaotic data lake: hard to navigate, inconsistent in format, and nearly impossible to use effectively for real-time compliance.
Armory20x turns that chaos into clarity.
- The Compliance Fabric: At its foundation, Armory20x weaves a custom compliance fabric using The Armory GSS and stackArmor’s purpose-built services. Telemetry from operating systems, databases, web apps, containers, and cloud-native services is normalized into a unified schema, accessible through SQL queries. This transforms fragmented data into actionable intelligence tied directly to FedRAMP KSIs.
- Finding Lifecycle Manager (FLM): Armory20x doesn’t stop at surfacing findings, it manages them. FLM ingests results from scanners and tools, tracks them through their lifecycle, and enforces remediation workflows against FedRAMP timelines. By tying issues to system resources and GitLab projects, it ensures nothing slips through the cracks while reducing administrative overhead.
- Query-Driven Fabric: Because all compliance data is captured in SQL-accessible form, Armory20x can generate bespoke compliance data warehouses that reflect the live state of the system at any moment. Analysts can correlate vulnerabilities with system events in real time, compliance managers can instantly quantify risk posture, and auditors can validate results by querying live data directly.
- Scalable by Design: Armory20x was built with the future in mind. As KSIs expand beyond Low into Moderate and High baselines, Armory20x’s compliance fabric can be extended with minimal friction. The system isn’t locked to today’s requirements; it’s designed to evolve with tomorrow’s.
Amory delivers more than just dashboards; it delivers a resilient compliance foundation. By weaving raw telemetry into a coherent, query-driven view of system state, Armory20x enables ISVs to achieve authorizations faster, maintain them more efficiently, and operate with a depth of visibility that regulators themselves are only beginning to imagine.
Google Cloud-Powered Acceleration
Armory20x leverages stackArmor’s FedRAMP High Ready GSS, The Armory, purpose-built on Google Cloud. That means you’re not bolting compliance onto your AI stack; you’re inheriting controls from the same infrastructure you’re already using to fine-tune Gemini models and run large-scale pipelines.
The result? Faster baselines. Faster inheritance. Faster everything. While you’re iterating AI features, Armory20x is automatically assembling machine-readable packages, running continuous queries, and handling ConMon requirements behind the scenes.
No stitching together random exports or spreadsheets. No reinventing security plumbing. Just compliance-as-code, baked into your AI workflows.
Streamlined Audits Instead of Speedbumps
Most AI startups move at lightspeed. Features ship weekly, models get swapped and tuned constantly, and infrastructure changes daily. In that kind of world, a once-a-year assessment is laughable.
Armory20x makes compliance continuous. Every query can be rerun on demand. Every baseline is versioned. Every drift is caught and remediated. Agencies see your actual state now, not you and your auditor’s best guess from six months ago.
And as another added benefit, auditors are no longer your dire enemy engaging in mortal combat on a semi-regular basis. There can be more than one! (Yes, that is a lame reference to Highlander and I’m not ashamed).
In the Armory20x model, the auditor’s job gets so much easier and faster. Instead of reviewing fossilized screenshots, they validate the queries themselves.
- Did we check the right data?
- Did the query cover the scope?
- Did the system answer truthfully?
That’s real security work. It transforms auditors from artifact chasers into referees. This allows auditors to dig into the core of security and provide deep, meaningful feedback that can be used to manage actual system risk.
Transparency Without Chaos
FedRAMP AI Prioritization emphasizes transparency, but too often transparency gets confused with dump every config file on the internet.
Armory20x delivers transparency with guardrails. Our queries dig deep into system guts: encryption configs, IAM policies, and audit logs. But results are shared through curated dashboards and machine-readable outputs designed for the people who matter – agencies, 3PAOs, and authorizing officials.
It’s not marketing fluff. It’s precision transparency: enough detail to build trust, without reckless oversharing.
Focus on AI, Not ATOs
AI is the bleeding edge, and all ISVs should focus on creating the revolutionary, not blowing the dust off of Word templates and Excel spreadsheets to do compliance the old way. FedRAMP AI Prioritization is the government opening the door. Armory20x is the jet engine that gets you through it ahead of your competition.
With Armory20x you skip the cosplay, skip the fossilized evidence packages, and skip the nine-month (if you’re lucky) compliance death march. Instead, you get:
- Speed – live, query-based proofs.
- Efficiency – automated packages, not endless prose.
- Scalability – reusable components that grow with your system.
- Trust – dashboards and queries everyone can access.
That’s compliance at AI speed.
The Future Belongs to the Fast
FedRAMP AI Prioritization is a chance for AI ISVs to lead, not lag. But you won’t get there by doing compliance the way it’s been done for decades. Armory20x is compliance without the theater.
So, you have a choice ahead of you: keep burning cycles writing SSP poetry for an audience of none… or let Armory20x handle the compliance heavy lifting while your engineers focus on shipping AI magic.
The future is code-driven, automated, and continuous. If you want your AI in government, it’s Armory20x or bust. Come and see.
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