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What we found measuring real Microsoft 365 estates.
Everything here is mined from real engineering or research evidence — measured, not guessed, and never a fabricated number. It’s how we think about governing an estate where the agents move faster than the admin screens. Each piece maps to one of our four commitments.
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Your Microsoft 365 tenant has AI agents you can't see
AI agents in a Microsoft tenant live on at least three control planes, and no single admin screen shows all of them. What we found scanning a real estate, and what an honest agent inventory requires.
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The confident zero: when governance tools report success while collecting nothing
A governance dashboard saying "0 violations" can mean assurance, blindness, or silent failure. A buyer's checklist for telling them apart, from a tool that reports its own partial failures.
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What scanning ~1M files against Microsoft Graph actually looks like (measured, not guessed)
Measured wire-level data from scanning ~900K files in a real tenant: how SharePoint's two throttles actually behave, why "add more app registrations" hits a deliberate wall, and what delta economics change.
Why we write these. Our whole pitch is depth and honesty, and the fastest way to prove either is to show the wire-level detail a slide deck can’t. If a claim here can’t be traced to evidence, it doesn’t ship.
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