Garde1 vs FutureFeed. An SSP only as true as what you typed.
You type all 320 statements, you grade yourself, and then you sign under the False Claims Act.
FutureFeed is an honest, inexpensive questionnaire. You scope it, write all 320 statements, upload the evidence and grade yourself. A wrong answer becomes a wrong SSP, and nothing in the product will say so before a senior official signs it under the False Claims Act.
“actually building out the tool was a grind… the real challenge wasn’t getting it set up once—it was keeping it updated as new or revised artifacts came in.”
With FutureFeed Consultant recommendedWith Garde1 No consultant needed
Who does the workYours: scope the boundary, policies and SSP, collect evidence, fix the gaps, grade readiness, watch after you pass.Done for you: scope the boundary, policies and SSP, collect evidence, grade readiness, watch after you pass.Started for you: fix the gaps.
First year, all in$2,196 + the readiness work.Published. Small company, Level 2 add-on included; scoping help is $1,500 more, and the Level 2 gap assessments on FutureFeed’s own marketplace list at $12,500 and $22,500.$23,988.Published: Starter $1,999 a month, Level 1 $1,800 a year. No readiness firm to pay, no seats resold; background checks are billed by Checkr at cost. Separate: the C3PAO, which DoD models at $31,234 for a small business (89 FR 83207), and the workspace licences you already pay for.
Firms you payTwo, or three with a readiness firm from its marketplace.FutureFeed, then the C3PAO.One.Garde1, then the C3PAO.
What you typeAll 320 implementation statements, and every revision after.Corrections to a draft.
Step by step
StepWith FutureFeedWith Garde1
Onboard
CostAbout $2,200 a year for a company of up to 25 people with Level 2. Scoping help is a $1,500 add-on, and the Level 2 gap assessments on FutureFeed’s own marketplace list at $12,500 and $22,500.Starter $1,999 a month, and the work the difference buys: scoping, writing, evidence and grading, done.
ScopeYou describe it.Nothing checks it against your systems.Your answers checked against your tenants, with the contradictions surfaced before an assessor finds them, and a straight answer on whether your environment needs GCC High.
Level 1Included free with the $99-a-month core plan.You answer the 15 requirements yourself and mark them met.$150 a month, billed yearly.Each requirement checked against evidence as it lands, with a status page you send primes.
Operate
Implementation statementsYou write them all, objective by objective.Drafted from what Entra, Intune and your cloud actually report, then you correct the draft.Typing is the exception.
SSPThe NIST template, filled with your statements.Wrong answer in, wrong SSP out.An SSP that argues with you.A statement your evidence does not support is flagged, not published.
EvidenceYou upload it; its Vault can sort uploads into categories.23 connectors send it on their own.Uploads are for what no system can show.
Measure and remediate
Your scoreA self-assessment you perform with minimal guidance, then grade yourself.Graded by the evidence, objective by objective, with no box you can tick to make it Met.
Fixing gapsOn you.Each gap with its fix.Supported fixes applied in your tenant once you approve them (Professional and up). Subject to the vendor’s API availability.
Prove
Keeping it trueYou keep the live SSP current by hand.The SSP follows your environment.The yearly affirmation is still yours to sign; the proof behind it is maintained for you.
“This information is associated to an individual Objective and will automatically appear on the live SSP and SSP Report.”
“In January 2021, MORSE submitted to the Department of Defense a score of 104 for its implementation of the NIST SP 800-171 security controls… In July 2022, a third-party cybersecurity consultant notified MORSE that its score was actually -142.”
Quoted verbatim from public threads; individual users, not Garde1 customers.
When FutureFeed is the better fit
If you have in-house CMMC expertise, a simple environment and a tight budget, FutureFeed costs far less. Garde1 costs more because it does the scoping, the writing, the evidence and the grading for you.
Give us 30 minutes. We'll show you where you stand against all 110 requirements, what's missing, and what it costs to close the gap, using your own environment instead of a slide deck.