Consus Industries, Inc.
Consus builds compliant AI products and infrastructure for US defense contractors handling ITAR and CUI data. Its core product, Consus Gateway, routes AI requests to authorized government-cloud environments so aerospace, defense, and energy companies can use frontier models without building the compliance and routing layer themselves.
At a Glance
- US defense contractors
- Aerospace and space companies
- Energy companies handling sensitive data
- Federal agencies and US-person contractors supporting federal missions
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Compliant AI Gateway for Defense
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Latest News
Published guidance explaining why putting an AI gateway in a customer's own government-cloud tenant can expand the CMMC boundary, and describing Consus's multi-cloud approach.
Published US-Only AI Models and CMMC Compliance for Defense Contractors, covering model selection, US-only routes, and controlled-data request flows.
Published Secure AI Routing and Gateways for DoD Contracts, detailing the CUI request path, government-cloud routing, policy enforcement, and audit evidence.
Announced that a FedRAMP-recognized 3PAO assessed Consus against all 410 FedRAMP High controls and that a Body of Evidence is available under NDA.
Products & Services
OpenAI-compatible AI gateway/API for sensitive workloads. It authenticates requests, applies compliance and model policies, routes traffic to approved AWS GovCloud, GCP Assured Workloads, or Azure Government model backends, and returns responses without persisting prompts or completions.
Open-source launcher that stores the Consus credential in the system keychain and opens supported AI tools already configured for the organization's approved models.
The original Consus product, presented in its YC launch as a system for finding and understanding complex government documents and specifications, verifying active revisions, alerting on updates, and extracting relevant requirements.
Market Position
Consus positions itself as a specialized compliant AI gateway for the defense industrial base rather than a general-purpose API proxy or a single-cloud model service. Its differentiation is a single OpenAI-compatible interface spanning AWS GovCloud, GCP Assured Workloads, and Azure Government, with ITAR/CUI policy enforcement, zero-persistence architecture, model-level compliance routing, and assessment evidence. Alternatives include building directly on AWS Bedrock, Azure Government OpenAI/Foundry, or GCP Vertex AI, deploying a gateway in a customer's own government tenant, or using generic OpenAI-compatible gateways; Consus argues that those approaches leave the contractor to assemble and maintain the multi-cloud compliance boundary.
Leadership
Founders
Eric Magliarditi
Founder and CEO. He spent most of his career launching government satellites and national-security missions at SpaceX; before that he wrote software to analyze satellite constellations and built computer-vision models at MIT. Consus also says he supported hypersonic missile development at Castelion.
Executive Team
Eric Magliarditi
Founder & CEO
Former SpaceX national-security satellite/mission engineer and former contributor to hypersonic missile development at Castelion; previously worked on satellite-constellation analysis and computer vision at MIT.
Founding Story
Consus was started to transform how aerospace and defense companies deal with government requirements and controlled-data software. Its initial vision was a 'GitHub for Government Documents' that would verify active revisions, alert teams to changes, and extract requirements from complex specifications; the company later focused its compliant AI layer on the related problem of giving contractors access to frontier models without making them build government-cloud infrastructure and compliance evidence themselves.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Subscription and usage-based SaaS/API model. Teams customers pay per employee per month, while AI token usage is billed at provider cost; Enterprise customers use a custom annual agreement. The company also sells the compliance, governance, support, and evidence layer around the gateway.
Pricing Tiers
For companies with fewer than 50 employees and ITAR workloads; AI tokens are charged at provider cost with no markup. Includes ITAR routing, ITAR attestation, email sign-in with MFA, usage dashboard, and email support.
For companies with 50 or more employees or any CUI workload; annual agreement with CUI routing/CMMC Level 2 support, SSO, Body of Evidence and SSP inputs, API usage/audit logs, and dedicated support. AI tokens are at provider cost with no markup.
Target Markets
- US defense contractors
- Aerospace and space companies
- Energy companies handling sensitive data
- Federal agencies and US-person contractors supporting federal missions
- Small CMMC shops and larger defense primes
- Using frontier AI with ITAR/export-controlled data
- Using AI with CUI and CMMC-regulated workloads
- AI-assisted engineering, coding, research, document Q&A, and agentic workflows for aerospace and defense programs
- OpenAI SDK, LangChain, LlamaIndex, LiteLLM, Cline, and OpenCode applications that need a compliant model endpoint
- Enterprise rollout and governance of ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Grok Build, OpenCode, and other AI tools
- Finding, monitoring, and extracting requirements from government specifications and contract documents
- Inversion Space
- Ridgeline Federal
- Castelion
- Neros