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VisibleThread GovCloud is FedRAMP Moderate Equivalent

Independently attested, for contractors handling CUI.

VisibleThread GovCloud: FedRAMP Moderate Equivalent (3PAO-attested). Independently attested by Ignyte, an accredited 3PAO, VisibleThread GovCloud meets 100% of the FedRAMP Moderate baseline, the DoD standard for contractors handling CUI under DFARS 252.204-7012.

• It matches the rules you already followDFARS 252.204-7012 is in your contracts, and equivalency is the route the DoD defined for exactly this case.
• It is the full Moderate baselineEvery control, independently verified, and reassessed annually.
• It shortens due diligenceYou and your primes can review our body of evidence instead of running a security assessment from scratch.
• Built in AWS GovCloud (US)A dedicated, single-tenant environment in AWS GovCloud (US), which is authorized at FedRAMP High. It is operated and accessed only by US persons, and AI is served through Amazon Bedrock inside the boundary.

Equivalency is distinct from an agency FedRAMP Authorization. Agencies make their own ATO decisions, and we are glad to share our attestation to support that review. On-premises, private cloud and air-gapped SCIF deployments remain available for teams that run VisibleThread in their own environment.

Custom shred templates

Shreds can now use the columns your compliance process needs.

Every organization runs compliance review its own way, but until now every shred had the same fixed columns. You can now design the columns, and reviewers fill them in during review.

• Design your own templatesBuild as many templates as you need, with nine column types to choose from, including Text, Number, Date, Person and Single Select. You can also control how each column looks and what reviewers can change.
• Pick a template when you shredEach new shred uses the columns from the template you choose.
• Review with your columnsReviewers fill in values, apply a value to several rows at once, filter by your columns, and assign rows to people, who are notified. Template columns are included in the Excel export.

Visi Everywhere: powering shreds, compares and outlines

Ask Visi about the report you are working on, without leaving the page.

• Inside the analysis modulesVisi used to sit in its own chat. It is now available in Shredding, Compare Docs, Proposal Outline and the Acronym Report, and works on the report you have open.
• A place to startVisi offers a summary and some suggested questions, or you can ask your own question straight away.
• Answers you can checkEvery answer includes citations that link to the source in the document. If the document does not contain the answer, Visi tells you rather than guessing.
• Switched on by administratorsVisi Everywhere is part of VisibleThread's generative AI capabilities, and administrators can turn it on or off.

Contract document analysis

Contract reviewers can now use the analysis tools they already know from bid work.

Dictionary Search, Compare and Writing & Editing appear in the contract navigation.

• Dictionary SearchRun dictionary searches on a contract, with a list of previous searches.
• CompareCompare revisions of contract documents and Excel files.
• Writing & EditingWrite and check contract notes, using default prompts and Visi to help you.

Custom fields: track your own data on records

Record your own data on opportunities, proposals, contracts and misc analyses.

Teams often tracked details that VisibleThread had no place for, and kept them in a separate spreadsheet. Custom fields put that information on the record itself.

• Nine field typesText, Long Text, Link, Date, Yes/No, Number, Single Select, Multi Select and Person.
• On the record and in exportsFields show on each record's detail view, including archived records, and are included in Excel and CSV exports.

Other enhancements

Search across more file types, and more control over your AI providers.

RAG search and PowerPoint uploads

Visi now searches and cites PowerPoint and Excel alongside Word and PDF. Capture plans, pricing sheets and past performance often live in decks and spreadsheets. Until now, PowerPoint files could not be uploaded, and Excel files were left out of search, so Visi answered from only part of your files.

• Upload decksPowerPoint and Excel files can be uploaded anywhere you upload documents and added to Collections from your computer or SharePoint. PowerPoint and Excel attachments on SAM.gov opportunities are picked up too.
• Searchable on uploadPowerPoint decks and Excel spreadsheets are searchable as soon as they are uploaded, with no extra steps. Excel files uploaded before 7.4 become searchable.
• Clear citationsAnswers name the deck or spreadsheet and open it from the citation.

LLM provider choice, permissions and fixes

• A provider per AI capabilityAdministrators choose which LLM provider powers each AI capability, rather than routing everything through one provider, and can test a connection first. Existing AI settings carry over on upgrade.

Collaboration, built in

Comments, owners and an audit trail across BD, capture, proposals and contracts.

• Comment on the paragraph you are reading@mention whoever needs to see it, and the thread stays logged against that line.
• Clear ownershipAssign an opportunity, a proposal or a contract to an owner. Once drafting starts, every section in the outline carries its own owner and status.
• A full activity logSearchable and exportable to CSV. It shows who ran what, on every document, by every user, across BD, capture, proposals and contracts.
• Due date notificationsFilter notifications to due dates so nothing slips past its deadline unnoticed.

Currency management and safe editing

Consistent values, and no overwritten work.

• Currency managementSet a workspace default currency and maintain your own conversion rates. Converted values now roll up on Kanban cards, dashboard totals and Excel exports.
• Multi-user editing conflict protectionWhen the same document is open in Word and in the web app at once, VisibleThread tracks document version identity, shows who is actively editing, and blocks a save that is not based on the latest version, rather than letting one person's work overwrite another's.

Archive reasons, security and fixes

Version 7.3 housekeeping, including SSO for federal environments.

• Reasons for archivingArchiving an opportunity, proposal or contract now asks for a reason, configured by your organization (a no-bid decision, for example). It is preserved through unarchive and re-archive, so months later someone can still see why a pursuit was dropped.
• Add-in co-authoringFixed, alongside the SharePoint co-authoring that already worked in browser Word.
• Encrypted SAML assertionsFixed, including RSA-OAEP under strict Java FIPS mode. Relevant for any federal or DoD-adjacent SSO setup.
• Dozens of smaller fixesAcross the Word add-in, opportunities and reporting.

Proposal outline, rebuilt around traceability

Every section shows the requirements behind it.

The old outline gave you a structure but no evidence behind it, and no practical way for a reviewer to judge whether it was right.

Generation now detects the document type first, then classifies each paragraph by requirement type before building the outline. A trace indicator shows which sections carry traced requirements. The redesigned Coverage tab gives reverse traceability, from a single requirement to every section that answers it.

Section ownership and status cascade down to sub-sections, so a capture lead can see who owns a section and where it stands without having to ask.

Capture pipeline: Kanban boards and stage gates

One board for tracked opportunities and proposals.

Tracked opportunities and proposals now run on the same Kanban board, with configurable stages and drag-and-drop moves. Between every stage sits a gate.

• Soft gatesPrompt on a move but allow it, with a note if skipped.
• Hard gatesBlock the move until the required questions are answered.
• Audit historyEvery crossing is recorded. No card moves quietly.

Dashboards and reporting

A live view of the numbers for BD and proposal teams.

• Capture dashboardPipeline value by customer, pipeline funnel and best-fit spread.
• Proposal dashboardTotal value by stage, section status and assignment.
• Usage StatsMoved into the primary navigation, with a full breakdown by area and by user, filterable and exportable to CSV.
• SharePoint grounding for CollectionsPoint a Collection at a SharePoint library and it re-indexes automatically when those files update.

A quieter update followed a week later, mostly fixes, to keep it all steady under real use.

Visi for RFIs and security questionnaires

Answers drafted and cited in about ten minutes.

Visi got a rework on one of the most repetitive jobs in GovCon. The old way was to open the questionnaire, open your last three good responses, and start copying: find, copy, paste, repeat forty times, two to three days per response.

How the new way works

It starts with a Collection: your approved past responses, pulled live from SharePoint, current by definition. Attach the questionnaire as it arrived and point Visi at the Collection. Visi asks the right questions first, before it writes a word:

• How detailed should each answer be?
• Table, or plain question and answer?
• Executive or technical audience?

Every answer comes back cited to source. Click the citation and see the exact paragraph it was drawn from.

You still read every answer and validate every citation. That part of the job does not go away. What changes is where you start: ten minutes drafted and cited, instead of two to three days of find and replace.

Listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace

A secure cloud option for federal customers and their supply chain.

VisibleThread is now listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace, the U.S. government’s public directory of cloud service offerings in the FedRAMP program. The listing is at the Moderate impact level, with the status Legacy FedRAMP Ready. That is a pre-authorization status, not an agency authorization. For the attestation that followed, see the November update above.

Deployment options

• VisibleThread GovCloudA secure cloud environment for customers who prefer not to host the platform themselves.
• Customer-hosted on-premisesIncluding air-gapped and SCIF deployments, for total data sovereignty inside your own firewalls.
• Customer-hosted private cloudDedicated, isolated instances, typically on Azure GCC High or AWS GovCloud (US).
• Public cloud (multi-tenant)Managed by VisibleThread, with continuous updates and high availability.

On-premises and air-gapped options are not changing. VisibleThread GovCloud sits alongside them, and every option gives you the same platform. All of them are available today.

Read more: VisibleThread Now Listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace. You can verify the listing and our attestation at the trust center.