Frequently Asked Questions
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Our services are geared toward commercial companies entering the U.S. government contracting market, including with the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. That includes commercial tech startups, mid-sized contractors, as well as venture capital firms and their portfolio companies. We also partner with primes to help their suppliers navigate the compliance regime so that they meet the prime’s own requirements to certify all of their suppliers.
At this time we only work with American-owned and U.S.-based companies but hope to expand our offerings internationally in the future.
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We provide a dedicated advisor who acts as the quarterback for your public sector campaign, helping with roadmap planning, compliance strategy, and access to a trusted ecosystem of vetted service providers. Depending on the services you choose to pursue, we can participate in external vendor meetings and manage bids from our partner network on your behalf.
Partnered services are offered on an a la carte basis, tailored to your specific compliance needs, and are available at an additional cost through vetted providers at competitive rates.
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We offer the same support for our clients in all engagement models. Our integrated model means our advisors act as a quarterback for your team on all things compliance.
We help you navigate requirements efficiently and align your compliance decisions with your broader business objectives. Practically, this means our team helps you understand applicable requirements, develop a strategic compliance roadmap, and integrate these efforts with go-to-market plans and fundraising timelines.
Our fractional approach offers you access to industry-wide expertise and vetted services. Based on what you need, when you need it, we coordinate expertise with vetted partner service providers. We will participate in your external service meetings, manage bids from those vetted service providers, sequence actions, and support execution.
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Engagement structure will depend on your specific needs, and we are happy to discuss the right approach.
Shorter engagements are often appropriate for companies that have clarity on their compliance requirements and need targeted support with setup, discrete tasks, or managing bids from vetted providers.
While we can support implementation, shorter engagements may not cover the full execution of all requirements, as many compliance efforts take several months to complete.
Longer engagements provide ongoing, embedded support from a dedicated concierge advisor to execute your roadmap, support your internal team, and manage vendor progress through completion.
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StonePoint Solutions partners with service providers in multiple compliance domains. Services are customizable and available at a competitive rate. Those services include:
Proposal writing and Contract Support
Business Development and Strategy
Lobbying
Cybersecurity and IT Security
Back Office Support
Secure Facilities
Foreign Investments / Defense Trade, Export, and Security Support
Supply Chain Illumination
Manufacturing Strategy
Legal and Regulatory Support
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We design customized, a la carte solutions drawn from a network of compliance, legal, security, and operational partners. While our support to you during our engagement remains the same, the number of service providers you contract with during our work together can scale up and down depending on your needs.
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We get it. Compliance isn’t cheap. And while there are more flexible paths for innovators than ever, compliance remains a huge barrier to commercial companies entering the U.S. government contracting market.
We firmly believe in the value of our offering because it fills a gap in the marketplace by letting founders focus on what they are building instead of becoming mired in navigating the many requirements to sell to the U.S. government.
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It’s hard to find a true jack-of-all-trades who can effectively manage every compliance requirement, which is why our fractional support model makes practical sense. Instead of hiring, onboarding, and retaining multiple domain experts before your growth plan justifies it, we give you access to experienced compliance support across the board at a fraction of the cost. That allows you to stay focused on mission-critical priorities and make longer-term hiring decisions when the timing is right.
We also help de-risk your go-to-market plan by planning compliance the right way, whether that means sequencing a 6–18 month process to gain secure facility access or avoiding unnecessary cost overruns on efforts like Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), which can easily reach six figures if not managed carefully.
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AI can be a useful support tool, but it should not be relied on to navigate government contracting, compliance requirements, or official submissions on its own. Accuracy matters, and there are often real consequences when representations to the government are incomplete, incorrect, or misunderstood. Unlike commercial contracts, there are typically no easy do-overs in government compliance.
Many companies struggle to meet DFARS and related cybersecurity requirements, often because they misunderstand what is actually required or overstate their readiness. In recent years, enforcement actions under the False Claims Act (FCA) have increased significantly, with companies facing serious penalties for failing to do what they certified they were doing. The common thread in these cases is not bad intent, but poor planning, unclear ownership, and misplaced reliance on tools instead of experienced guidance.
AI works best when paired with expert oversight, clear accountability, and a disciplined approach to compliance. Used that way, it can be a powerful accelerator. Used on its own, it can create risk that is difficult and expensive to unwind.