Infrastructure assessment
An assessment of the systems you already run.
An infrastructure assessment here is not a new diagram of boxes. It is a written account of how work moves through the identity, the network, and the platforms you already have, and where that path depends on someone bridging a gap by hand.
When to ask for one
After a merger, an acquisition, or a platform cutover. When a second site has started to run a second week. When leadership and the floor disagree about what is open. When the invoice and the tools people actually use have drifted apart.
The request often arrives as “we need someone who knows infrastructure.” The useful version of that request is narrower: which path is stuck, and which system the path depends on. Transition is the same work when the cause is a deal or a cutover.
What we look at
The identity, network, and platforms the operation already runs. Tools, access, and records that must agree. SaaS governance and what the stack costs. Whether every location that does the work follows the same standard, with room for what is truly local.
A replacement is recommended only when the current record cannot carry the work. Joining what you already use is the default. A second platform that records the same job is a finding, not a shopping list.
Walk one job
Pick a real piece of work: an order, a ticket, a hire, a change. Write the path it takes, including the side path the official process does not mention.
- Where does the request start, and which system records it?
- Who touches it, and who believes they own the outcome?
- Which step is done by hand because two systems disagree?
- What access does that step require, and is the access shared?
- What would stop if that system were down tomorrow, and who would notice?
- Which other product claims to record the same job?
That path is the assessment. A catalog of servers with no path is not. If you can answer four of the six before the call, the first visit can be scoped tightly. If you cannot, that is also useful: say which ones are blank.
What you receive
What is already sound, what is split, and the order in which to join it. The first visit is scoped in writing before it is scheduled. Work that follows is agreed separately. You keep the owners, the cadence, and the record.
The map is the path people use. The name is the owner. We do not leave a diagram that was never used.
Cost on the same picture
A platform nobody owns still sends a bill. Seats for people who have left, and a second tool that records the same work, are infrastructure findings as much as they are finance findings. The cloud cost and reliability page is the pass that starts from the invoice and from what happens when something fails.
Security sits here too. Shared admin access with no owner is an infrastructure fact and an access fact. SecOps consulting is the pass that starts from the control.
Contact
Describe the system the week depends on.
Tell us what recently changed, which path is stuck, and where you have been about to add a person to bridge it. We reply with a scoped visit, or a clear reason the work is not a fit.