Where it sits

Built for the firms the big systems skip.

In development · TBD 2027

Most small contractors start on QuickBooks and bolt on a timekeeping add-on. Most enterprise systems assume a finance department. CRATON assumes eight people and one award.

Sources cited below · competitors unnamed on the public site by policy

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.

What we will not claim

Time to live

By walkthrough

We have not run enough implementations to quote a number, and a number quoted from one is a number quoted from nothing. Your timeline is scoped to your firm. Request a walkthrough.

unmeasured figures stay off the page

Customers

No testimonials

There are none yet. A page of invented enthusiasm is the cheapest thing on the internet and the most expensive to be caught at.

no testimonials until there is one

Pricing

Pricing on request

Pricing is scoped to your firm. Request a walkthrough. A made-up number on a page is a negotiation you lose in advance.

pricing on request · scoped to your firm

Certification

Not a thing you buy

No accounting system is DCAA-certified. Systems are found adequate for award. Any vendor who says otherwise is telling you something about themselves.

DCAA does not certify software

Honest about the trade

CRATON assumes you are small. That is a real constraint: if you have a controller, three cost accountants and eleven active awards, a mid-market platform is a better fit and we will say so on the call.

Forty minutes. Bring your last SF 1408 or your first.

Questions we get asked

The short answers.

Is CRATON DCAA-certified?

No software is. DCAA evaluates a contractor's accounting system — people, policy and tooling together — and finds it adequate or not. CRATON is built to the fourteen areas of the SF 1408 that evaluation uses.

What does it cost?

Pricing on request. Pricing is scoped to your firm and set out in a walkthrough. We would rather tell you that than publish a number we would not honour.

How long does implementation take?

It is scoped to your firm in a walkthrough. We have not run enough of them to quote an honest range, and we will not borrow someone else's.

Do you integrate with QuickBooks?

The general ledger interface is defined in the API contract for engineering. Which specific systems are wired, and when, is covered in a walkthrough.

Keep reading

Next.

04 · Audit record

Fourteen questions. One binder

The SF 1408 asks fourteen things about your accounting system.

03 · Indirect rates

Rates that move when the ledger does

Most small contractors compute indirect rates in a spreadsheet once a quarter and discover the drift at year end.

Request a walkthrough

Forty minutes. Your SF 1408

Not a demo reel.

Request a walkthrough

Make your next audit the dullest hour of the year.

Forty minutes with the team building it. Bring your last SF 1408 or your first.

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CRATON is in development; availability planned for 2027 (TBD). Walkthroughs by request.