FAQ
Excel-to-Readyline migration questions
What contractors ask when they finally move off the spreadsheet.
It's a starting point. Consultant-provided Excel templates organize the 110 controls into rows and give you a column for status + notes. That gets you to ~30% of audit-readiness. The remaining 70% (evidence linkage, audit trail, SPRS scoring, C3PAO assessor access) is where Excel structurally breaks.
Yes. We accept CSV / XLSX export of your existing control statuses and POA&M items. Most of the migration value is in re-uploading the evidence files into the platform (so they're linked, not just hyperlinked to a SharePoint folder). Plan ~1 hour per control family for the migration on a typical contractor with 6-12 months of Excel tracking.
As soon as you finish marking implementation status for all 110 controls. With the Auto-Pilot Wizard for L1, that's 20 minutes. For L2, depends on how much of your environment is already documented elsewhere, typically a few weeks, depending on your environment, for the initial assessment.
You can, but the audit posture weakens at the boundaries. Best practice: move ALL compliance tracking into Readyline so the audit trail is uniform. Keep Excel for operational use cases (financial models, schedules) that don't intersect with the CMMC scope.
The CFO question is "what does failing the audit cost us?" Failing CMMC L2 assessment delays DoD contract eligibility. The Readyline subscription cost is small fraction of a single contract delayed by an audit re-assessment. The CFO numbers favor moving off Excel.
