What Corbalt does

Corbalt is an all-remote software consultancy that builds infrastructure automation systems for federal government healthcare agencies, with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as its anchor client. The company was founded by engineers who participated in the 2013 HealthCare.gov tech surge and has since positioned itself as a mission-driven provider of cloud and security infrastructure for organizations handling sensitive personal data. Its portfolio comprises five core products — Cloud Network Manager (automated VPC provisioning across hundreds of AWS accounts), Terraform Drift Monitor (continuous infrastructure state validation), ProfessorMAC (AWS cost optimization with Jira/email workflow integration), an API Gateway built on Kong (ATO-compliant, scaling to 83,000 requests/minute), and TLS Certificate Automation (Akamai DNS Proxy plus manage-certs CLI). These products are deeply integrated with AWS, Akamai DNS, Let's Encrypt, Jira, and email systems and are engineered to meet federal compliance requirements, including Authorization to Operate (ATO).

Commercially, Corbalt operates on a professional services model, delivering project-based consulting and custom software to government clients. Its go-to-market is direct enterprise engagement (email outreach via [email protected], LinkedIn presence, project portfolio on its website) rather than channel or self-serve distribution. The team is drawn from Bell Labs, Google, and Palantir alumni, providing the engineering pedigree required for mission-critical federal work. No revenue, headcount, funding, or pricing figures are publicly disclosed, and the company's only identified customers across all documented case studies are CMS and CMCS, indicating a single-agency revenue base despite a technically broad product surface.

For a PE/VC/M&A audience, Corbalt presents as a small, technically deep, founder-led federal contractor whose moat derives from regulatory clearance capability (ATO), domain specialization in federal healthcare cloud, and embedded switching costs within CMS workflows — offset by critical customer concentration on a single agency.

Name

Corbalt

Website

https://corbalt.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Corbalt is an all-remote software consultancy that builds cloud infrastructure automation tools — including network provisioning, drift detection, cost optimization, API gateway, and TLS certificate automation — for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and other federal healthcare agencies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government Cloud Infrastructure Consulting

NAICS

Computer Facilities Management Services (541513), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)

akta.pro primary industry

Cloud Managed Services (Operations, Monitoring, Patching) (BPAEACAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Cloud FinOps & SaaS Spend Management (BPAEAOAH), Compute Resource Management & Scheduling (Cluster/Workload Managers) (HDABADAK), Cloud Operations Outsourcing (Cloud Managed Operations) (BPAEAMAC), Managed Application Platforms (App PaaS & Runtime Services) (HDABAAAD)

Keywords

• Cloud infrastructure automation
• Government IT consulting
• Federal compliance software
• AWS managed services
• Infrastructure-as-code tooling

Headquarters

HQ city

Remote

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Government IT Consulting Services: Corbalt provides software development and consulting services to federal government agencies, particularly the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Revenue appears to come from project-based contracts for building custom software infrastructure solutions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Corbalt is a software consultancy that designs, builds, and operates custom cloud infrastructure for federal government clients, with deep focus on healthcare agencies such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). It delivers proprietary automation tools — Cloud Network Manager, Terraform Drift Monitor, API Gateway, TLS Certificate Automation (Akamai DNS Proxy and manage-certs), and ProfessorMAC cost optimization — that automate AWS network provisioning, infrastructure drift detection, certificate renewal, API management, and cloud cost reduction. The firm also helps clients obtain and maintain Authorization to Operate (ATO) compliance for sensitive government workloads.

Product overview

Corbalt offers a portfolio of infrastructure automation products focused on cloud operations, security, and compliance for government clients. The core offerings include: Cloud Network Manager (automated network resource provisioning across AWS accounts), Terraform Drift Monitor (infrastructure state validation against Terraform definitions), AWS Cost Optimization/ProfessorMAC (cost analysis and savings recommendations), API Gateway (secure API management infrastructure), and TLS Certificate Automation (automated certificate renewal with Akamai DNS Proxy and manage-certs tools). These products work together to help organizations like the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services automate manual operations, reduce costs, achieve compliance, and improve infrastructure reliability.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cloud Network Manager An automated network administration service that enables organizations to provision and manage network resources across hundreds of application teams and AWS accounts, providing a web interface for automation-driven self-service and orchestrating component system APIs to cut provisioning time from weeks to minutes.
• Terraform Drift Monitor A system that detects differences between actual and desired Terraform-managed infrastructure, supporting compliance and reducing risk by alerting teams to configuration drift before it affects deployments or compliance.
• AWS Cost Optimization (ProfessorMAC) A centralized cost-optimization platform (ProfessorMAC) that continuously scans AWS resources, identifies cost-saving opportunities, guides actions to reduce expenses, and integrates with existing Jira and email workflows.
• API Gateway A fast, reliable API gateway built on Kong that simplifies API development, ensures core functionality is implemented consistently and securely, scales automatically, and meets ATO requirements for federal government deployments.
• TLS Certificate Automation A suite of tools that automatically renews TLS certificates on AWS infrastructure, including the Akamai DNS Proxy (ADP) for fine-grained DNS authorization and the manage-certs CLI that scans AWS load balancers and renews certificates with a single command using certbot.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduced cloud network provisioning from 8 hours to 8 minutes
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• CGI Federal: Federal IT services arm of CGI with strong healthcare and civilian agency portfolio, including CMS-adjacent programs. Directly comparable customer but at much greater scale.
• ICF International: Public-sector-focused consulting and digital services firm with deep federal health and civilian agency presence. Overlaps strongly with Corbalt’s customer and capability set.
• Accenture Federal Services: Federal cloud and digital services arm of Accenture with significant CMS work and large-scale federal cloud modernization capabilities. Sets competitive ceiling for the segment.
• Booz Allen Hamilton: Large incumbent federal IT and consulting prime with substantial CMS and federal healthcare cloud practice. Represents the strategic competitor Corbalt most often competes against for program work.
• Slalom (Federal practice): Consulting firm with a federal and public sector practice covering cloud, modern engineering, and analytics. Comparable in service offering but much larger and broader customer base.

Direct peers

• REI Systems: Federal IT services firm with deep CMS and healthcare-agency relationships, providing custom software and cloud solutions for government programs. Comparable size and customer overlap.
• Ad Hoc LLC: Small federal digital services consultancy that also emerged from the HealthCare.gov rescue. Directly comparable in mission-driven positioning, federal healthcare focus, and bespoke engineering on civic infrastructure projects.
• Oddball: Boutique digital services contractor focused on federal health programs, including HealthCare.gov-adjacent work. Directly comparable in size, mission-driven culture, and HHS/CMS targeting.
• DSoft Technology: Small federal IT services firm specializing in CMS, HHS, and VA programs with custom development and cloud engineering offerings. Closely comparable in scale and customer base.
• Flexion (formerly Flexion Inc.): Mid-sized federal IT services and consulting firm focused on secure cloud and DevOps for government clients, including federal health agencies. Comparable scale and service portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/corbaltco
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/corbalt

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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