Consus, founded by Eric (a former SpaceX payload lead and early Castelion employee), is an enterprise gateway that lets companies run AI on ITAR-restricted and controlled unclassified information (CUI) by routing requests through infrastructure that meets stringent government controls. It completed a FedRAMP equivalency audit against the 410 FedRAMP High controls and targets aerospace and defense firms that have avoided AI due to compliance risk. The product exposes a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint that enforces policy and verifies keys before any inference, and customers can plug in commercial models (ChatGPT/Claude), open-source stacks, or vendor-specific offerings without standing up separate GovCloud environments.
Technically, every model name must include a compliance suffix (for example gpt-5.6-sol:fedramp-high), bare names are rejected, and Consus never proxies to standard commercial endpoints. It supports allowlists, per-user spend and model restrictions via a portal, and keeps no prompt/completion data at rest - only ephemeral in-memory handling plus metadata for billing and audit. Consus is not self-serve (ITAR requires identity verification and contracts), charges a compliance fee starting at $40/month per seat plus token costs, is in active use, and invites feedback from security and regulated-industry engineers.
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