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Environment Discovery & Inventory

Every new customer site starts from scratch. That's not a process problem — it's a knowledge problem.

AWACS OS maps every environment automatically and keeps the map current as environments drift. Walk in knowing everything.

Onboarding a new customer means 3–4 hours of discovery per site. Undocumented VMs. Unknown firewall rules. Mystery subnets. Azure resources nobody documented when they provisioned them three years ago. And the tech doing the discovery is billing that time against a flat-rate contract — which means you're eating it.

That cost doesn't only show up at onboarding. The same rediscovery happens every time a tech visits a site they haven't touched in six months. The environment has drifted. The map in their head is outdated. They spend the first 45 minutes just reorienting before they can start the actual work.

When a senior tech leaves, their mental model of every customer environment goes with them. The institutional knowledge was never in the system. It was in one person. And now it's gone.

15–20% MSPs spend 15–20% of total service hours on rediscovery work that was already done — and paid for — by someone else on a previous visit. That's margin you're hemorrhaging every week.

What the system actually does

Automated environment mapping

Full-stack discovery on demand

AWACS OS discovers and inventories Azure subscriptions, on-prem resources, Arc-managed nodes, and hybrid endpoints automatically. The first map is built before a tech sets foot on site — and it updates without anyone asking it to.

Change detection

The map knows when it's out of date

Environments drift. AWACS OS detects drift and flags it. When a resource changes state, affected knowledge base entries are marked stale. The system knows what it knows — and more importantly, it knows when it learned it and when that knowledge has expired.

Customer-isolated knowledge

Clean partitions per customer environment

Each customer environment has its own isolated knowledge partition. Tech teams access the right data for the right customer. There's no cross-contamination, no accidental queries against the wrong subscription, no shared state between unrelated clients.

Exportable snapshots

From inventory to deliverable in minutes

Environment inventory exports directly to documentation, onboarding packets, and customer-facing reports. Discovery output doesn't stay in the system — it becomes the artifact the customer gets at the end of the engagement.

Three steps from new site to mapped environment

01

AWACS OS authenticates and scans

The system authenticates to the customer environment — Azure AD, Arc-managed nodes, on-prem agents — and runs discovery scans across all connected endpoints. No manual inventory. No spreadsheet. The scan runs against live state.

02

Resources are catalogued into the knowledge base

Every discovered resource is written to the knowledge base with trust tier, source command, and timestamp. The map is queryable immediately — a tech can ask "what VMs are running in the Northridge subscription" before they've opened a browser. The full inventory is structured, indexed, and searchable.

03

Scheduled re-scans detect drift and flag stale entries

Scheduled re-scans run against the environment on a defined cadence. Changed resources trigger staleness flags in the knowledge base — the system actively identifies when its own map diverges from reality. Techs see the delta, not just the current state.

What MSPs actually get

20 min
First-visit discovery time

Automated discovery vs. 3+ hours of manual inventory. Techs arrive oriented, not orientating. The difference shows up immediately on the first ticket.

Zero
Tribal knowledge loss on turnover

The map stays current regardless of staff changes. When a senior tech leaves, their institutional knowledge of every environment is already in the system — not in their head.

Instant
New-tech environment onboarding

New techs query the existing map before their first site visit. They arrive knowing the environment layout, the running services, the backup state — without anyone briefing them.

Ready to stop paying for the same discovery twice?

AWACS OS builds the map once and keeps it current. Every tech on your team starts from the same baseline — not from scratch.

dustin@awacs.ai