Cornerstone
How Cornerstone works

A cyber birth certificate for every building.

Modern facilities run on networked control systems — HVAC, power, fire, lighting, access. On federal projects, a cybersecurity record for those systems is a required part of turning the building over. Cornerstone builds that record from what the network actually contains, seals it so it can't be quietly changed, runs it through government review, and lets anyone verify the result — without ever exposing the facility.

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The problem

The systems that run a building are its softest cyber target — and no one can vouch for them.

The HVAC, power and fire systems used to be dumb and isolated. Today they sit on IP networks, are often reachable from outside, and are a routine path into a facility and everything behind it. Federal construction contracts require a full control-system cybersecurity turnover package — dozens of interlocking submittals covering inventory, network flows, hardening, ports and protocols, and testing.

Today that package is assembled by hand in spreadsheets and Word templates. It takes weeks, it's stale the day the doors open, and — worst of all — the government office receiving it has no way to check whether the paper matches the wire. A record no one can verify is worth very little. That is the gap Cornerstone closes.

Built from reality

Drawn from what the control network actually contains, cross-checked against the design — not a template someone filled in from memory.

Tamper-evident

Every fact is folded into a sealed, hash-chained record. Change one line after the fact and the seal breaks.

Verifiable by outsiders

A reviewer, insurer or lender can confirm the record independently — carrying only fingerprints and counts, never facility data.

Who it's for

One record, three parties who all need to trust it.

The turnover package sits between the people who build a facility and the people who accept and insure it. Cornerstone gives each of them the thing they actually need.

Contractors & PMs

Deliver in days, not weeks

  • Generate the required submittals from ingested evidence instead of hand-building a binder
  • See exactly which items are ready and what still blocks each one
  • Hand over a single sealed package with a cover transmittal
ISSMs & government reviewers

Accept evidence, not assertions

  • Every submittal traces back to the input file it came from
  • Run the review cycle in place — dispositions, comments, resolutions, revisions
  • Carry the result into eMASS toward an authorization to operate
Owners, insurers & lenders

Confirm it independently

  • Verify a sealed record with nothing but the record itself
  • No login, no site access, no facility data ever exposed
  • Watch for drift after handover, so the record stays true
What we built · the pipeline

From the live network to a sealed, verifiable record.

Cornerstone is an evidence engine, not a document template. Facts enter once, are reconciled against reality, and flow outward into every submittal — each one traceable back to the file it came from.

Capture & ingest

Device inventories, network captures and STIG results are parsed and folded into one graph — with 13 industrial-protocol dissectors reading what's really on the wire.

Reconcile

As-built is compared to as-designed. Undocumented devices, unexpected connections and missing controls surface as findings instead of hiding.

Generate & gate

The required submittals are generated into the official templates. A readiness engine says exactly what's ready and what blocks the rest.

Seal & prove

The baseline is sealed into a hash-chained record, signed, packaged, and published here for anyone to verify — offline, no facility data.

Capture → Reconcile → Generate → Readiness → Government review → Seal → Registry → Drift watch

What we built · in detail

The whole turnover, engineered end to end.

Not a slice of the problem. Every stage from raw evidence to an authorization handoff is built, and every stage leaves a verifiable trail.

Evidence over assertions

Every generated line traces back to the SHA-256 of the input file it came from. The package isn't a claim about the building — it's a chain of evidence about it.

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A tamper-evident ledger

The whole record is an append-only, hash-chained ledger. Alter one earlier fact and every hash after it breaks — a reviewer can prove the record hasn't been quietly edited.

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Cryptographic signatures

Each signed submittal is bound with an Ed25519 signature to the exact artifact bytes it approves. Change the document and the signature no longer verifies — and it can't be transplanted onto anything else.

Ed25519bound to the bytes

Government review, in place

Dispositions, comments, resolutions and revisions are run inside the record — with a comment-resolution matrix and a resubmittal diff at file-hash granularity, so it's clear exactly what changed between rounds.

ball-in-courtresubmittal diff

The last mile to an ATO

The finished evidence exports as an eMASS-ready hardware baseline, software baseline and POA&M — carrying the record forward into the authorization process instead of stopping at a stack of documents.

eMASS handoffRMF-ready

Watched for drift

After handover, the sealed baseline is compared to the network as it changes. A new controller, a firmware change, an unexpected outside connection — reported, not buried in a log no one reads.

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Why it's different

Anyone can generate a document. The point is that it can be trusted.

Cornerstone is built around one idea the alternatives skip: a record is only worth what it can be proven to be.

Verify without exposing the building

The published record carries only hashes and counts. A third party proves it's genuine and unaltered — while facility details never leave the enclave.

One system across the whole lifecycle

Discovery tools find assets but emit no submittals. Review tools shuffle dumb attachments. Cornerstone spans capture → evidence → submittals → review → ATO → drift.

Offline, air-gap-safe verification

The verifier runs entirely in the browser using built-in cryptography — no upload, no network, nothing leaves the machine. It works inside a disconnected facility.

Handling-aware by construction

Controlled information is marked correctly on every artifact, and the public verification surface is a separate application that can never reach a project's sensitive data.


What it replaces

The tools it stands in for were never built for this.

Where teams do this today
The gap Cornerstone fills
Hand-built spreadsheets & macrosThe status quo for the turnover package.
Brittle, manual, and impossible to verify. Cornerstone generates the same submittals from evidence and seals the result.
OT discovery platformsFind and monitor control-system assets.
They tell you what's on the network but produce no deliverable. Cornerstone turns that reality into the required package.
Construction submittal toolsRoute documents through review.
They shuttle dumb attachments no one can check. Cornerstone runs the same review over evidence that verifies.
Compliance / GRC systemsStore the authorization package.
They record manually-asserted answers. Cornerstone hands them evidence that traces back to the wire.

Coverage

The full turnover package — every required submittal.

Cornerstone covers the interlocking submittals a control-system turnover requires, from the device inventory through ports-and-protocols to the witnessed testing report. A selection:

InventoryControl-system device inventory
NetworkNetwork architecture & riser
FlowsDocumented data flows & interconnections
PPSMPorts, protocols & services register
HardeningSTIG / SRG compliance & results
AccountsAccount & lockout capability
RequestsWireless, broadcast & exception justifications
TestingWitnessed cybersecurity testing report
ReconcileAs-built vs as-designed report
TransmittalCover, index & sealed package

Were you handed a Cornerstone record?

You don't need an account or access to the building to check it. Paste the sealed record and confirm in seconds that its seal is genuine and nothing has been altered.