FedRAMP in Ironclad

What is FedRAMP?

FedRAMP stands for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. It is a U.S. government framework for assessing, authorizing, and continuously monitoring the security of cloud services used by federal agencies.

For federal agencies and contractors, that means bringing structure to vendor contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and interagency agreements that today often live across email, shared drives, and disconnected approval chains, without requiring dedicated technical staff to build or maintain that structure. Ironclad differentiates through no-code configuration and AI embedded natively in the contracting workflow, so business users, not IT or outside consultants, own workflow and template changes as programs evolve.

Designed for procurement, contracting, legal, program, finance, security, and operations teams, Ironclad supports federal procurement and vendor contracting workflows today, with a dedicated Government Environment for organizations that require FedRAMP-aligned hosting.

FedRAMP in Ironclad

Ironclad supports FedRAMP use cases through a separate government environment. FedRAMP applies to that specific environment and system boundary, not to every Ironclad environment or service.

Ironclad is currently FedRAMP Class A (Ready) at the Moderate level and is pursuing FedRAMP Class C (Moderate) authorization. For customers using the government environment, this means Ironclad provides a more restricted deployment model designed to support stricter security requirements.

What’s Supported

The FedRAMP environment is designed to support core contract lifecycle management workflows, including creating, reviewing, approving, signing, and managing agreements.

• Intake and Request Management: Configurable intake forms collect the information needed to initiate agreements and route requests to the right process. Standardizes requests, reduces incomplete submissions, and creates a consistent front door for contracting.

• Workflow Automation: No-code workflow design supports conditional routing, approvals, notifications, signature steps, and policy-driven processes. Automates repeatable agreement processes while allowing contracting teams to adapt workflows as policy and program needs change.

• Templates and Clause Governance: Centralized templates, fallback language, approval rules, and playbooks support controlled agreement generation and negotiation, including configurable FAR, DFARS, HSAR, and other agency-specific clause sets. Helps teams apply approved language and escalation rules consistently across agreement types.

• Document Creation, Negotiation, and Redlining: A docx-native editor enables users to create, edit, comment on, redline, and approve agreements in one collaborative workspace. Reduces handoffs across email and shared drives while maintaining document versioning and stakeholder accountability.

• Digital Execution: Signature workflows support execution as part of the end-to-end contracting process. Connects approvals, final documents, and executed agreements in one managed record.

• Central Contract Repository: The Repository stores completed contracts with structured metadata, searchable documents, and associated agreement data. Creates a centralized system of record for contract history, obligations, terms, and reporting.

• Obligation and Lifecycle Visibility: Structured contract data supports tracking of key dates, terms, renewals, commitments, and related records. Improves visibility into upcoming actions, agreement status, and contractual exposure.

• Reporting and Audit Support: Workflow activity and audit-log exports support advanced reporting and analysis, with AI-assisted obligation extraction and conversational analytics available through Ironclad's Early Access Program. Helps teams develop evidence-based views of contract obligations, milestones, renewals, performance, and risk, alongside contracting operations and user activity.

• Enterprise Integration: APIs, webhooks, native connectors, and integration patterns connect Ironclad with enterprise systems, including a native SAP integration (SAP Data Foundation and Procurement Automation packages) to SAP Ariba and S/4HANA. This means contract terms flow directly into procurement and finance systems without manual data entry or middleware dependencies. Enables contract workflows to operate alongside procurement, finance, ERP, CRM, service management, and data platforms.

• Access Controls and Permissions: Role-based permissions scoped by role, region, team, workflow type, and record properties, with per-record access controls, SSO/SAML, and SCIM-based user provisioning. Supports granular, auditable access control across large, distributed contracting organizations.

• Scale and Support: Unlimited user profiles, bulk user and group management, and multi-tenant cloud infrastructure that scales with usage, backed by tiered support plans up to a premium, US-based support option. Supports enterprise-wide deployment and large user populations, with support models suited to mission-critical programs.

Ironclad orchestrates intake, approvals, negotiation, and execution across the acquisition lifecycle, integrating with procurement, finance, and program systems. It is strongest as the workflow and contracting layer that complements your acquisition, financial, and program systems, not as a replacement for a contract writing or evaluation system such as PRISM or Unison.

1. Acquisition Planning: Complements planning by standardizing intake and routing planning artifacts through configurable questionnaires and approval paths. Does not replace acquisition planning or budgeting systems.

2. Solicitation Development: Generates solicitation documents from approved templates and clauses, with docx-native redlining, approval routing, and full audit history.

3. Evaluation and Source Selection: Complements evaluation by centralizing review documents, comments, and approval history in one workflow. Does not perform source-selection scoring or replace an evaluation system.

4. Award and Contract Formation: Finalizes negotiated terms, records approvals and redlines, executes agreements, and creates a structured contract record with full version history.

5. Post-Award Administration: Manages modifications, obligations, and renewals across the portfolio, with repository search and reporting connected to systems of record.

6. Closeout and Audit Readiness: Coordinates closeout tasking and preserves executed documents, approvals, and audit-log exports in a searchable repository.

Ironclad has demonstrated fit for guided intake, conditional multi-document generation, multi-phase solicitation-through-award workflows, internal approvals, and repository search with auditability.

What’s Not Currently Supported

Some features available in commercial Ironclad are not available in the government environment.

We are committed to bringing most of the following features into NA2 by the end of the year. Currently, the FedRAMP environment does not support:

• AI-powered import, extraction, and classification features, including Smart Import AI features, Run AI, property detection, custom AI properties, and contract type classification.
• AI assistants and agent-based features, including Jurist, Jurist redlining, Jurist AI Playbooks, AI Assist, Renewal Brief, and Contract Family Agent.
• Some security and data platform features, including HYOK on AWS, SIEM, and Snowflake Data Share.
• Some integrations, including Salesforce, Coupa, NetSuite, OneTrust, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Dropbox Sign, Box, Dropbox, Egnyte, and OneDrive for Business.
• Microsoft Word integrations, including the Word Add-in and Microsoft Word Online.
• Clickwrap-related services in NA2.
• Features that rely on unsupported services or subprocessors outside the FedRAMP boundary.

Because feature availability can differ between environments, you should confirm any required integrations, AI capabilities, or downstream systems before deployment.