Clarity for Tier 2–4 Suppliers

The barrier to AUKUS participation

If your company has been approached about AUKUS subcontracting, you have probably been told that you need to demonstrate configuration management capability. What you have been given is a requirements document for enterprise PLM that costs $500K to licence, $1M to implement, and 18 months before you can demonstrate compliance.

Your company cannot absorb that cost before the contract is awarded. By the time you could afford it, the contract has gone to a company that already had the infrastructure.

Clarity removes that barrier.

What Clarity provides for suppliers

Defence-grade configuration management on day one. Same-day deployment. No systems integrator. No infrastructure to provision. No migration project before you see value. The same configuration management infrastructure available to AUKUS primes — at SMB pricing.

Traceable evidence packs your prime can accept. When your prime asks for a BOM submission, an interface control document, or a design modification evidence pack, Clarity produces it in a format that the prime’s Clarity deployment can validate and accept — with the full evidence chain intact. Your submission is traceable. Your submission is defensible. Your submission does not get bounced back because the prime cannot validate its provenance.

Classification-aware from the start. If your work is at OFFICIAL level now but may be classified later, Clarity’s classification model handles the transition without rebuilding your data. The same entities, the same evidence chain — reclassified in place, with independently auditable boundary enforcement.

The same data model as your prime. When you submit through Clarity, your evidence chain connects directly to the prime’s programme model. There is no translation layer, no format conversion, no manual revalidation. The traceability chain is unbroken from your component supplier record to the prime’s design baseline.

Entering the AUKUS industrial base

The AUKUS industrial base is an entry opportunity for Australian SMB manufacturers, specialist engineers, and technology companies. But entry requires demonstrating:

Configuration management capability — you can manage and communicate the configuration of what you are delivering
Traceable evidence packs — you can produce documentation that the prime’s engineering team can validate and accept
Sovereign information handling — if the work is classified or classification-sensitive, you can handle it within appropriate controls

Clarity addresses all three. The deployment runs in your AWS account (or a shared account managed by a cleared partner). Your data stays within Australian AWS infrastructure. The evidence chain you produce meets the prime’s configuration management requirements by architecture, not by process.

Pricing for SMB participation

Clarity for Tier 2–4 suppliers is priced at a fraction of enterprise PLM licensing. The model is per-programme, not per-seat — you pay for the programme you are working on, not for enterprise software you need to buy before you have the contract.

Pricing is available at first contact. No long-term contract required for initial programme entry.

“Instead of asking people what happened, you’ll be able to see it. That’s the difference between managing information and managing certainty.”
Six months in: trace any decision to its originating evidence. Provide assurance without assembling information from disconnected sources.

Getting started

The path from “we’ve been approached about AUKUS” to “we can demonstrate configuration management capability” is shorter with Clarity than with any alternative: