HYPATIUS Enterprise Resource Platform

Nothing to see here. Exactly.

In development · TBD 2027

Timekeeping, charge codes, indirect rates and the audit binder for small government contractors. Built to the fourteen areas of the SF 1408, so your review is the least interesting hour of the auditor's week.

Request a walkthrough See the record Small business · non-traditional defense contractor

14 / 14 SF 1408 areas addressed

sf1408.areas · every area mapped to a ledger query

Every action a ledger row

craton.ledger · append-only · hash chain

One decision per person-week

timesheet.approve · requester excluded

Zero black boxes

every AI run: inputs, tools called, outputs

UEI UKELB3UV76V6 · CAGE 19S89

small business · non-traditional defense contractor

What it does

Four plain words. One record.

At launch, CRATON keeps the four things a cost-type award asks you to prove, and it keeps them in one ledger anyone can read.

01 · Timekeeping

Hours

Book the day whole. Eight hours or a written reason. Supervisors approve one person-week at a time; nobody approves their own.

SF 1408 areas 5 & 6 · quarter-hour increments

How timekeeping works

02 · Charge codes

Codes

Nothing is booked without a code. Names derive from the funding source; tiers pick the approvers; activation writes the ledger account.

6 funding sources · 3 approval tiers

The code lifecycle

03 · Indirect rates

Rates

Fringe, overhead and G&A pools that update when the ledger does. Provisional to final, snapshot on the first of every month.

rates.snapshot · fringe, overhead, G&A

How rates are computed

04 · Audit record

Binder

Fourteen SF 1408 areas generated from the ledger, not assembled the night before. Always current, exportable in one click.

SF 1408 · generated, not assembled

See the fourteen

CRATON on a phone · the same ledger

Daily means daily.

A floor check does not ask whether the numbers add up. It asks an employee what they are charging today, and whether they wrote it down today. Four destinations on the phone — the day’s open items, the timesheet, the approvals queue and the binder — writing to the same ledger as the desk, so the record is made where the work is instead of reconstructed on Friday afternoon.

four destinations · quarter-hour increments · no second ledger

CRATON mobile home screen: three open items before 17:00 — a missing day of hours, a card receipt to attach, and a timekeeping policy awaiting acknowledgement — each with its own due date. — **Home**three things, before 17:00

CRATON mobile My day screen: zero of eight hours booked, a module picker showing charge codes, and a quarter-hour keypad from 0.25 to 8. — **My day**quarter hours, whole day

CRATON mobile Approvals screen: two person-weeks awaiting approval, the second carrying its reason on record with the time it was entered and by whom, above Return and Approve. — **Approvals**one person-week, never your own

CRATON mobile Binder screen: eleven of fourteen SF 1408 areas settled, each listed with its state mark. — **Binder**fourteen areas, in a pocket

Boring, on purpose

Your auditor will be disappointed.

Every hour, code and rate already has a record, so the review takes an hour because there is nothing to find. The joke is about how uneventful compliance becomes. The compliance itself is not a joke.

How the record works →

The record

AI-assisted. Every run reviewable.

AI-assisted analysis. Every operator commit is recorded. Rates, floor checks and close notes are drafted by the platform and reviewed by a named person before they count.

Nothing counts until a named person reviews it.

RUN 2026-09-15 · 12:10:40
INPUT Q3 indirect pool · posted rows to date
TOOLS rate_calc · ceiling_check
OUTPUT provisional fringe rate · exceptions listed
REVIEWED BY finance@ · 2026-09-15 14:02
LEDGER seq 21,977 · chain ok

14:02:11labor.postDana Ortiz · wk 8–12 Sep

13:48:02charge_code.activateGA-IT-FY26 → 6300

13:31:55timesheet.approveSam Whitfield → Lee Moreno · Thu 11

12:10:40rates.snapshotQ3 provisional · rows to date

11:07:19unallowable.scan2 merchants · FAR 31.205-14

09:00:00timesheets.nudge3 people · 1 day

craton.ledger · todayseq 21,983

One band per area · the lit band is the one that needs a person

craton.binder · read from the ledger, not assembled

SF 1408 · pre-award survey of the accounting system

Fourteen questions. One binder.

The last question on the form is whether the system is in full operation. A compliant package nobody uses fails it. CRATON's home screen is that question, answered daily.

Demo tenant · development build · 11 settled · 2 attention · 1 live

settled attention · reason on record live · never finished, kept

Where it sits

Built for the firms the big systems skip.

Most small contractors start on QuickBooks and bolt on a timekeeping add-on. Most enterprise systems assume a finance department. CRATON assumes a small team and its first award.

Starting point	Who it fits	Time to live	The gap
QuickBooks + timekeeping add-on	Firms under ~$5M	Days	Cannot calculate indirect rates or enforce compliant timekeeping natively; approvals only at the top tier.
Mid-market GovCon platform	$5M–$100M revenue	6–12 weeks	Priced and scoped for a finance team you may not have yet.
Enterprise GovCon platform	Large primes	3–6 months	Runs the top of the market; the implementation alone outlasts a Phase I.
CRATON	Small teams on their first cost-type award; non-traditional and small defense contractors	Scoped in a walkthrough	FAR-native from day one, AI-assisted, with every operator commit recorded, and a home screen that says when nothing needs you.

Sources: bigtime.net (Jul 2026); erpresearch.com (Aug 2026); softwareconnect.com (Jul 2026). Competitors unnamed on the public site by policy; the research board names them.

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