OpenControls.ai Launches With Strike Graph as First Integration Partner
STIGs. Federal regulations. O*NET occupational data. Structured, searchable, and ready to integrate. Strike Graph announces as first integration partner on day one.
March 23rd, 2026 – OpenControls.ai today launched its compliance data API platform. Three content packages. One REST interface. And Strike Graph – the AI-native compliance platform trusted by 300+ defense contractors – announcing as the first integration partner on day one.
The problem isn't complicated. It's just expensive.
Every organization doing serious compliance work builds the same pipelines. Download STIG XML from DISA. Parse it. Normalize it. Map it to control frameworks. Then do the same thing for 20+ federal Issuing Authorities' websites – scrape the PDFs, extract the text, keep it current. Maintain all of it, forever, every time DISA drops a quarterly update or the SEC publishes a new enforcement action.
That work costs $40,000 to $80,000 to build. Another $13,000 to $25,000 per year to maintain. OpenControls.ai replaces it starting at $1,500 per year.
"The data has always been free," said Steven Piliero, CTO of OpenControls.ai. "What hasn't been free is the engineering to make it usable. We've built the pipelines once so nobody else has to."
Strike Graph Is First
Strike Graph's Verify AI platform automates evidence collection, SPRS scoring, and continuous compliance monitoring for organizations navigating CMMC. They'll be among the first platforms running OpenControls.ai structured data underneath their workflows.
Justin Beals, CEO of Strike Graph, has been writing about the CMMC consolidation wave for over a year. The DIB contraction. The C3PAO bottleneck. AI-powered compliance as mandatory infrastructure. He's watched between 33,000 and 44,000 companies do the math on Level 2 certification costs – $50,000 to $400,000 – and decide defense isn't worth it anymore.
His take on the partnership:
"We've said AI-powered compliance is becoming mandatory infrastructure for the defense industrial base. What we hadn't said out loud is that the AI needs structured, current, machine-readable data underneath it to actually work. You can't automate evidence collection against unstructured PDFs. You can't run continuous monitoring against STIG requirements someone downloaded six months ago. OpenControls.ai solves the data problem that every GRC platform has been quietly working around. That's why we're integrating it."
Beals points to False Claims Act exposure as the pressure that changes the governance conversation entirely. Executives signing SPRS affirmations under 31 U.S.C. § 3729 – treble damages, reckless disregard standard – aren't making a technical decision anymore. They're making a liability decision.
"Platforms that can show structured, validated, automatically updated STIG data from an authoritative source give their customers a defensibility posture that home-grown XML parsers can't match."
Strike Graph customers gain access to OpenControls.ai's STIG data, federal regulatory corpus, and O*NET occupational data through Strike Graph's existing compliance workflows. The integration targets the gap between raw DISA publications and the machine-readable, continuously updated data layer that automated compliance platforms require.
What Ships Today
STIGViewer CKLB API – $1,500/yr
All ~500 DISA STIG profiles as structured JSON via REST endpoints. Every requirement cross-referenced to NIST 800-53 controls and DoD 8500 Information Assurance controls. When DISA publishes quarterly updates, the API reflects them automatically. No downloads. No parsing. No validation cycle on your end.
RegGenome US Cybersecurity – $2,500/yr
Obligations-based cybersecurity regulatory intelligence from 20+ federal Issuing Authorities – CISA, NIST, SEC, Treasury, Congress, FINRA, DOJ, and more. 8,246+ documents structured as JSON, designed for firms to understand, manage, and mitigate risks to their information systems, IT assets, and data. Searchable by Issuing Authority, document type, date range, and jurisdiction. Monthly updates as new enforcement actions, guidance, rules, and advisories land. Eighty years of regulatory history, from 1946 to present.
OpenControls Complete Bundle – $3,500/yr
Everything. STIGs, regulatory content, and O*NET occupational data in a single subscription with a unified API key and doubled rate limits. $500 less than purchasing separately.
O*NET Occupational Data – Included Free
Department of Labor O*NET data – all job families, all occupations – activates automatically with any paid subscription. The groundwork for role-based compliance discovery. Controls linked to the people responsible for implementing them.
Key Capabilities
- Structured Data: All content normalized to JSON with consistent schemas, slug-based URLs, and full-text search
- Framework Cross-Referencing: STIG requirements mapped to NIST 800-53 and DoD 8500 controls
- Multi-Authority Coverage: CISA (2,462 docs), NIST (493), SEC (1,925), Congress (596), Treasury (421), and 15+ more
- Automatic Updates: STIGs sync quarterly; regulatory content updates monthly
- O*NET Integration: Department of Labor occupational data through the same API
- Standard REST Interface: JSON responses, API key authentication, up to 48,000 requests per month
No Switching Costs
The OpenControls.ai API isn't a platform. It's a data layer. It delivers structured compliance intelligence via standard REST endpoints that slot into whatever your team already uses – GRC platforms, SIEMs, automation scripts, custom dashboards, Ansible playbooks, ServiceNow workflows.
It doesn't matter what you're running.
"We ask no one to switch anything," said Piliero. "We ask them to consume structured compliance data that makes whatever they already use measurably smarter."
What's Coming: Semantic Compliance
The API launching today is the foundation. OpenControls.ai is building a Semantic Enrichment Layer on top of it – breaking verbose natural language mandates into atomically decomposed, independently testable units, mapping them to O*NET occupational roles, and enabling predictive cross-referencing across the full STIG and regulatory corpus.
This is what OpenControls.ai calls the "Compliance Defensibility Gap": the inability of organizations to prove why a specific role owns a specific requirement – or to justify workforce allocation to auditors with anything better than tribal knowledge. The Semantic Enrichment Layer closes it.
Planned capabilities include:
- Atomic Decomposition: Breaking compound requirements into independent, testable mandates – across both STIGs and regulatory documents
- O*NET Role Mapping: Linking controls to Standard Occupational Classification codes – so Network Administrators see network controls and Database Administrators see database controls
- Cross-Corpus Intelligence: Connecting a DISA configuration check to the SEC rule or CISA advisory that makes it relevant
- Complexity Forecasting: Shannon entropy scoring to distinguish automatable configuration tasks from decisions requiring senior architectural judgment
- Bidirectional Discovery: Query by role ("What do I need to own?") or by asset ("What controls apply to this Cisco switch?")
Strike Graph gets first access when the Semantic Enrichment Layer ships. Organizations subscribing now receive it at preferential pricing. Same API. Same integration. New intelligence.
Pricing and Availability
STIGViewer already serves 48,000 monthly active users. All three content packages are available immediately.
| Package | Annual Price | Billed Quarterly | What's Included |
|---|---|---|---|
| STIGViewer CKLB API | $1,500/yr | $375/qtr | All ~500 STIG profiles, NIST 800-53 + DoD 8500 cross-refs, quarterly updates, O*NET included |
| RegGenome US Cybersecurity | $2,500/yr | $625/qtr | 8,246+ regulatory documents, 20+ Issuing Authorities, monthly updates, O*NET included |
| OpenControls Complete | $3,500/yr | $875/qtr | Everything above, unified API key, 48K calls/month, $500 savings |
Annual commitments, billed quarterly. Per organization. No seat limits. No per-call metering.
Organizations interested in reselling or embedding the API within their platforms: contact OpenControls.ai about the partner program.
About OpenControls.ai
OpenControls.ai builds compliance data infrastructure for organizations that need defensible, machine-readable security intelligence – without the pipeline tax. A product of MoxyWolf LLC.
About Strike Graph
Strike Graph is the AI-native compliance platform trusted by 300+ organizations navigating CMMC, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other security frameworks. Verify AI continuously monitors compliance posture, automates evidence collection, and reduces audit preparation from months to weeks.
Media Contact: press@opencontrols.ai Partner Inquiries: partners@opencontrols.ai
Frequently Asked Questions
Why would I pay for public domain data?
You wouldn't pay for the data. You'd pay for the pipeline. DISA publishes raw STIG XML for free. Twenty-plus federal Issuing Authorities publish regulatory guidance as PDFs. Building structured JSON APIs with cross-referencing, searchable indexing, and automatic updates costs $40,000 to $80,000 to build and $13,000 to $25,000 per year to maintain. OpenControls.ai does it starting at $1,500 per year. That's less than two days of an engineer's time.
What content packages are available?
Three: STIGViewer CKLB API ($1,500/yr) for DISA STIG data, RegGenome US Cybersecurity ($2,500/yr) for federal regulatory documents, and the OpenControls Complete Bundle ($3,500/yr) for everything. O*NET occupational data is included free with any paid subscription.
What is the "Compliance Defensibility Gap"?
The inability to prove why a specific compliance methodology was chosen. It surfaces when verbose requirements get treated as indivisible blocks of text – teams identify controls by keyword search and tribal knowledge. Without atomic chains of evidence, you can't answer an auditor who asks "which specific sub-requirement failed?" or "why was this role assigned to this task?" The Semantic Enrichment Layer directly addresses it.
Do I need to replace my current GRC tool?
No. The OpenControls.ai API is a data layer, not a platform. It delivers structured JSON via REST endpoints that feed into your existing ecosystem – ServiceNow, Archer, custom SIEMs, Ansible, or anything that can make an HTTP request. The goal is to make your current toolchain defensibly smarter.
What's the difference between the API today and the Semantic Enrichment Layer?
The API (shipping now) delivers structured compliance data: STIGs normalized to JSON, regulatory documents parsed and searchable, O*NET occupations queryable. It's structured public domain data via API.
The Semantic Enrichment Layer (coming later) adds proprietary intelligence: atomic decomposition, O*NET role mapping, cross-corpus linking, complexity forecasting, bidirectional discovery. Original analysis that doesn't exist anywhere else. Current subscribers receive preferential pricing when it ships.
How do updates work?
STIG data syncs quarterly when DISA publishes new or updated profiles. Regulatory content updates monthly. Your integration picks up changes automatically on the next request. No downloads. No manual parsing. No deployment cycle on your end.
Do you offer monthly billing?
No. All subscriptions are annual commitments, billed quarterly. Compliance data infrastructure is a long-term investment and our pricing reflects that.