Diagnostic
Microsoft Estate Risk Ledger
Find the risk, waste, and missing ownership across Microsoft 365, Azure, identity, licensing, and infrastructure.
"We do not know what is risky, broken, undocumented, or expensive in our Microsoft environment."
Fixed fee
$3,500A smaller Compact scope (from $1,500) covers eligible bounded environments, confirmed before you pay.
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What moves the number: tenants, sign-in, how many apps sign in through Microsoft 365, mail, Azure and endpoints. Headcount is only one of them. The scope-fit check tells you where you land →
What you walk away with
What you keep when this is done
You keep a written record of what is broken, what it is costing you, and what it costs to fix, in a form your leadership can act on. It also sets the fixed price of the fix, so nothing after this is open ended.
- A plain-English scorecard of your Microsoft environment across four things: who can get in, where your data sits, what it costs, and how well you could recover, with the worst findings at the top.
- One clean map of your Microsoft 365, Azure, staff sign-in accounts, servers and storage, showing what depends on what and who owns each part, written so a new engineer could pick it up.
- A snapshot of what you pay Microsoft for and do not use, with the waste named in dollars and the savings you can take now separated from the ones that need business approval.
- A register of the gaps in how staff accounts and company devices are protected, each one rated for severity so you can see which gaps actually matter.
- A plan of what to fix and in what order, plus the one change you can approve immediately and the payoff to expect from it.
The exhibit shows only the estate map: the systems, their owners, and what depends on what. The risk scores, the license waste in dollars and the fix order come with it, and the linked sample report shows the scorecard.
How the diagnostic works
01Read-only inspection
Your live environment is inspected directly, read-only. Nothing changes and nothing breaks.
02Findings, scored and priced
You see what is actually risky, what it is costing you, and a fixed quote to fix what matters. Ranked in plain language.
03Your plan, either way
The remediation plan is yours to keep. Take the fix at the quoted price, or hand the plan to your own team or another vendor.
This is for you if
- You have a real decision or risk on the line: an audit, a renewal, a migration, a board question, or an AI rollout.
- You want findings at the sample report's level of specificity: named roles, quantified waste, tested assumptions.
- You want the price fixed in writing before the work starts.
It is not for you if
- You need a quick checkbox scan rather than findings you plan to act on.
- You are looking for open-ended staff augmentation with no defined finish line.
After the diagnostic
Remediation is scoped from the evidence
Remediation is quoted as a fixed scope rather than open-ended hours. The diagnostic shows exactly which of these you need, and what it should cost.
Stabilize
Close the urgent gaps the evidence surfaced, on a fixed scope, before they become an incident.
Control
Stand up the controls and operating model the environment was missing, in staged, measurable releases.
Oversee
Fractional Architecture Oversight once the foundation is in place: scheduled senior review on a defined monthly cadence, offered as a follow-on. Implementation is separately scoped.
Delivery, access, and scope boundaries
Typical delivery
10 business days, elapsed. The window begins after the scope is confirmed, the kickoff is complete, required access works, and requested exports and documentation have been provided. Client, licensing, or third-party delays pause the timeline.
Access needed
Read-only access to Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Azure, licensing and cost data, and available infrastructure and backup documentation. Access is time-limited, protected with MFA, and read-only wherever the platform allows. Credentials should never be submitted through the website.
Not included
No configuration changes, penetration testing, restore testing, remediation, or detailed review of unrelated third-party applications.
Every assessment includes one kickoff and one findings review; extra workshops or revision rounds are a change order. Unless the signed statement of work says otherwise, no assessment includes production changes, remediation, implementation, emergency incident response, 24/7 availability, software or licensing costs, legal attestation, or third-party vendor fees. The signed statement of work controls if it differs from this page.
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