The case for QuickChain
What vetting by hand costs
- The reviewer’s time
- For every request, someone runs a few scanners by hand, reads every finding, works out what else gets installed, and writes the memo.
- The developer’s wait
- Work stalls until the answer comes back. When approvals are slow, people start working around them.
- The record
- Decisions end up in email threads and shared drives. They’re hard to pull together when someone asks how new software gets vetted.
Why now
Nov 10, 2026
CMMC Phase 2 begins. Third-party Level 2 certification becomes a condition of award on more defense contracts.
The DoD CIO’s Software Fast Track (SWFT) initiative is also asking software vendors for SBOMs and third-party assessment of what they ship.
Sources: Secureframe on CMMC Phase 2, DefenseScoop on SWFT.
What leadership gets
- A recommendation with reasons
- Approve, approve with conditions, reject, or incomplete, with each reason written out. A short summary sits on top for anyone who won’t read the full report.
- A decision log
- Who asked and for what, who decided and when, the conditions, what was accepted, what is still open, and the date to review it again.
- Approved software
- One list of what is approved, for which use, by whom, and when it was last checked. QuickChain re-checks approved software when a new release or a new advisory comes out.
- Time to decision
- Counts of requests and decisions and the median time to a decision, on the Evidence page.
- Something to hand an assessor
- The decision log as CSV, the full report in Word or HTML, and a read-only link for your assessor that expires.
Who uses it
Each role gets its own home screen. Developers see their requests, and the people who decide see their queue.
- Developer
- Asks for software by pasting what they need, and can see where each request stands. Developers never decide.
- Compliance
- Works a queue sorted worst first, judges the findings that need a person, and records the decision. Compliance can’t approve their own requests.
- Owner
- Runs the workspace and its intake policy. An owner can approve their own request, and it’s recorded as Self-approved.
- Read-only
- Sees requests and decisions and can’t change anything.
Start with a 90-day pilot
$3,000
All of it is credited toward your first year. Annual subscriptions start at $12,000 a year, depending on the size of your environment.
See full pricingQuestions leadership asks
Does QuickChain replace our security scanners?
No. QuickChain handles the decision about whether new open-source software may be used, and keeps the record of it. Keep running the scanners in your build pipelines.
What do our teams need to install?
Nothing. Developers and reviewers work in the browser. You only connect GitHub if you want pull requests checked.
Can we show the record to an assessor?
Yes. Each decision records who asked, who decided, when and why. The decision log exports as CSV, and you can send an assessor a read-only link that expires.
Is QuickChain a certification?
No. QuickChain doesn’t certify anything or make you compliant. It keeps the record of how open-source software was vetted, which you can show to whoever reviews your program.
How is QuickChain priced?
The pilot is $3,000 for 90 days, and all of it is credited toward your first year. Annual subscriptions start at $12,000 a year, depending on the size of your environment.
Bring a package your team is waiting on
On the call we’ll check it together, so you see the findings and the decision packet for something you actually need.