What Nukleas does

Nukleas, Inc. is a New York-based private company that operates an integrated post-award operations platform purpose-built for small to mid-sized US government defense contractors. The company addresses a structural gap in the federal contracting ecosystem: prime contractors absorb the cost of CMMC, DCAA, ITAR, and DFARS compliance through dedicated back-office departments, but small-business awardees must meet identical rigor without comparable scale. Nukleas compresses those prime-grade requirements into a single system of record, marketing itself as a unified alternative to fragmented spreadsheets and bolted-on point tools.

The platform is architected as seven modules on a shared data model — Setup, Timekeeping, Contract Management, Expense Management, Travel, Billing & Invoicing, and Compliance — with FedRAMP-authorized infrastructure and a CMMC Level 2-ready workspace including CUI/FCI enclave provisioning. Native integrations to SAM.gov (entity and CAGE registration), WAWF (invoice submission), and GSA (per diem and lodging rates) replace manual government-system workflows. An Agentic CMMC Assessment Engine automates control evaluation and audit-evidence generation across all Level 2 control families, and a natural-language Nukleas Agent enables conversational queries over time, contract, and expense data. Computer-vision OCR handles receipt extraction and allocation.

Nukleas monetizes via subscription-based managed back-office services with quote-based pricing, sold direct to enterprise contractor buyers through website CTAs, Calendly-scheduled video calls, and a contact form. As of early 2026 the company is at 1-10 employees, has raised $150,000 from Forum Ventures and Right Side Capital Management, and discloses Novaguard Defense Solutions as a demonstration onboarding client. The company is in active build-out of its founding leadership and sales-delivery functions and has not disclosed revenue.

Name

Nukleas

Legal name

Nukleas, Inc.

Website

https://nukleas.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Nukleas is an integrated post-award operations platform for small to mid-sized US government defense contractors, unifying DCAA-compliant timekeeping, contract management, WAWF invoicing, GSA-compliant travel, and agentic CMMC compliance assessment on a single FedRAMP-authorized system of record.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Defense Contractor Compliance & Operations Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) (HDADAHAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (HDABAHAH)

Keywords

• Government contractor operations
• Defense compliance software
• Post-award contract management
• CMMC compliance platform
• DCAA timekeeping system

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Managed Back-Office Services: Subscription-based managed service providing accounting, cybersecurity, payroll, supply chain, and acquisitions support to government contractors. Pricing appears quote-based and tailored to contractor size and complexity.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Nukleas is a unified, FedRAMP-authorized operations platform for post-award government contracting that combines CMMC-compliant infrastructure with seven integrated modules (Setup, Timekeeping, Contract Management, Expense Management, Travel, Billing & Invoicing, and Compliance) under a shared data model. It also offers a managed back-office service that delivers accounting, cybersecurity, payroll, supply chain, and acquisitions support to small and mid-sized defense contractors. An Agentic AI layer enables natural language queries about time, contracts, and expenses and automates CMMC Level 2 control assessment.

Product overview

Nukleas is a unified operating system for post-award government contracting, built as an integrated platform-plus-modules architecture. The core platform provides a unified system of record with embedded compliance workflows, real-time contract intelligence, and audit-ready automation. Seven distinct modules work together as an integrated system: the Setup Module (MOD-00) for initial provisioning; Timekeeping Module (MOD-01) for DCAA-compliant hour tracking; Contract Management Module (MOD-02) for portfolio and CLIN management; Expense Management Module (MOD-03) for receipt processing and allocation; Travel Module (MOD-04) for GSA-compliant booking; Billing & Invoicing Module (MOD-05) for WAWF-ready invoice generation; and Compliance Module (MOD-06) for agentic CMMC assessment. Unlike point solutions, all modules share the same data model, enabling automatic cross-module validation without manual reconciliation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Nukleas Platform Unified, FedRAMP-authorized SaaS platform for post-award government contracting operations, providing DCAA-compliant timekeeping, contract/CLIN management, expense management with receipt OCR, GSA-compliant travel booking, WAWF-ready invoicing, and an Agentic CMMC Assessment Engine. Built for small to mid-sized U.S. defense contractors who must meet prime-scale compliance without prime-scale staffing.
• Managed Back-Office Services Subscription-based managed service offering for government contractors covering accounting, cybersecurity, payroll, supply chain, and acquisitions support, delivered alongside the Nukleas Platform. Quote-based pricing tailored to contractor size and operational complexity.

Quantifiable outcome

• Eliminates invoice formatting errors that delay payroll
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability5 records

Feature7 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Appian: Low-code process automation platform widely used across federal agencies and government contractors for case management, compliance workflows, and audit-ready automation. Competes with the workflow and compliance portions of Nukleas but requires customer-side configuration rather than delivering pre-built govcon modules.
• Palantir Technologies: Major defense and government software platform with deep DoD and prime contractor relationships; competes more broadly for government contractor data and operational infrastructure budgets. While not a direct timekeeping/expense competitor, Palantir's expansion into operational back-office represents an incumbent threat to Nukleas's positioning.
• Deltek: Dominant incumbent ERP for government contractors, with Costpoint as the de facto DCAA-compliant accounting, timekeeping, and compliance platform for both primes and small-to-mid defense contractors. Directly competes with Nukleas on timekeeping, billing, expense, and compliance workflows but as part of a broader project-based ERP suite.
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Government: Enterprise ERP and CRM platform with a Government Community Cloud offering, frequently adopted by federal contractors and integrators as a general-purpose backbone. Competes broadly for the back-office budget but requires extensive customization to match Nukleas's pre-built DCAA/CMMC workflows.

Emerging players

• Acumatica: Cloud-native ERP with government contracting and project-accounting modules, increasingly used by small-to-mid government contractors as a Deltek alternative. Comparable in delivering a modern cloud ERP to the segment Nukleas targets, with partial overlap on timekeeping, expense, and project accounting.
• Unqork: Enterprise no-code platform with a public-sector and government contractor footprint, used to build compliance, intake, and operational applications. Comparable in its vertical-SaaS-for-regulated-workflows thesis but offers a general builder rather than Nukleas's pre-built govcon modules.

Others

• Procore Technologies: Vertical SaaS for the construction industry with strong compliance, timekeeping, and project-management workflows. Not a direct competitor in govcon, but the most successful analog of vertical-SaaS displacing legacy ERP in a compliance-heavy industry — useful as a comparable for Nukleas's go-to-market trajectory.

Direct peers

• Daston Corporation: Government contractor compliance and accounting software provider serving small-to-mid defense contractors with DCAA-compliant timekeeping, expense management, and audit support. Comparable niche focus and overlapping feature set with Nukleas's timekeeping, expense, and compliance modules.
• Microix: Workflow automation and compliance software purpose-built for government contractors, covering purchase requisitions, timekeeping, and approvals. Overlaps with Nukleas's expense and approval workflows, and targets the same SMB defense contractor segment.
• Unison Technologies (Unison GovCon): Provides back-office software and managed services specifically for small and mid-sized government contractors, including timekeeping, expense, and compliance. Operates in the same customer segment with overlapping functionality, and is one of the closest direct competitors to Nukleas's managed-services positioning.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/nukleas

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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