Power Platform Health & Governance Gauge
$3,500 focused / $7,500 extended · 2 weeks (3 extended) · Gauge — GRID Stage 1
For IT and operations leaders who inherited a Power Platform estate — or watched one grow on its own. In two weeks, you go from "how many apps do we even have?" to a complete inventory, a ranked risk register, and a 90-day plan — led by a founder, at a fixed price. Like every IMP0WER assessment, it's the Gauge stage of the GRID: measure before anyone proposes anything.
You're probably seeing…
- Apps and flows nobody can name an owner for
- Critical processes running on someone's personal credentials
- "How many apps do we even have?" has no answer
- An audit, security review, or compliance question looming with no data to answer it
- IT inheriting citizen-built solutions after a departure — and discovering they're mission-critical
- A Center of Excellence conversation starting without a picture of what it would govern
None of this means the platform was a mistake. Power Platform connects to 1,400+ certified connectors and grows wherever it's useful — that's the value and the risk in one sentence. The Gauge exists to turn that sprawl into a measured, governable estate.
Scope
The Gauge measures your estate across eight areas:
- Tenant and environment inventory — every environment, its purpose, and its configuration
- App and flow census — every app and flow, with owners, connections, and usage signals
- DLP and connector risk review — which connectors are in use, where policy gaps sit, and what data can leave
- Orphaned and mission-critical identification — what has no owner, and what the business quietly depends on
- Maturity rating — your estate scored against the IMP0WER GRID stages
- Ø Standard gap check — where your environments, ownership, and lifecycle practices diverge from our published production standard
- Top-10 risk matrix — the risks that matter most, ranked by likelihood and impact
- Prioritized 90-day roadmap — what to fix first, second, and third, and why
Extended tier adds: stakeholder interviews (up to 6), an ALM and environment architecture review, and a CoE readiness plan — the right tier if you're weighing a Center of Excellence or already feeling deployment pain.
Inputs — what we need from you
- Tenant admin read access. We bring the inventory scripts and admin-center export procedures; nothing is changed in your tenant.
- Two working sessions (workshops) with the people who know the estate — typically an IT owner and one or two business stakeholders.
- That's it. The collection tooling is ours; your team's calendar cost is deliberately small.
Duration
Two weeks for the focused tier; three for extended. The engagement ends with a readout workshop where we walk your team through the findings and the roadmap — not a document dropped into a shared drive.
How the engagement runs
Days 1–2 — access and kickoff.
Your team provisions read-only access from the pre-approved permission list; we confirm scope boundaries and put both workshops on the calendar. No discovery theater — the collection checklist exists before we arrive.
Week 1 — collection.
Inventory scripts and admin-center exports run against the tenant while we map environments, connectors, and DLP policies. The first working session with your IT owner fills the gaps automation can't see: which solutions matter, which departments build, and where ownership is thinnest.
Week 2 — analysis and readout.
Findings are scored, the risk register is ranked, and the 90-day roadmap is sequenced. The second working session pressure-tests draft findings with your team — a finding your people can correct in week two beats one they dispute at the readout. The engagement closes with the readout workshop and handoff of every artifact.
Extended-tier engagements add a third week for the stakeholder interviews, the ALM and environment architecture review, and the CoE readiness plan.
Deliverables
- Estate workbook — the full inventory: environments, apps, flows, owners, connectors, usage. This becomes your ongoing system of record.
- Findings and risk deck — the DLP and connector risk matrix, orphaned and mission-critical lists, maturity rating, Ø Standard gaps, and the top-10 risk register, written for both technical and executive readers.
- 90-day roadmap — a prioritized, sequenced plan you could hand to any vendor, or execute internally.
- Readout workshop — a working session with your team to pressure-test the findings and agree on sequence.
Want to see the shape of the report before you book? Read the sample readout: a condensed Gauge report for a fictional insurer, section by section.
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Duration | Adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Focused | $3,500 | 2 weeks | Full scope above |
| Extended | $7,500 | 3 weeks | Interviews (up to 6), ALM/environment architecture review, CoE readiness plan |
Fee credit: 100% of the focused-tier fee is credited toward any implementation engagement of $25,000 or more signed within 90 days of your readout. If you proceed with us, the Gauge effectively costs nothing.
What it's not
No remediation, no buildout, no CoE implementation. The Gauge tells you what and why; follow-on engagements do the fixing. That separation is deliberate — a diagnosis you can trust has no construction work hiding inside it. If the finding is "your estate is in better shape than you feared," that's what the deck will say.
And findings are never scoped to the entry topic: if the Gauge uncovers SharePoint permission risk or an ALM problem, you hear about it, whether or not it flatters the engagement.
What happens after
Most clients move from the Gauge into a Governance Foundation QuickStart — standing up the environments, DLP policies, and ownership model the roadmap calls for — with the fee credit applied. Others take the roadmap and execute internally, or split the work between their team and ours. All three are fine outcomes; the roadmap is written to survive any of them. Longer term, governance tends to become an operating habit rather than a project, and we support that too. And when the findings point at the content layer or at AI readiness instead — it happens — the SharePoint Modernization Blueprint and the Copilot & AI Agent Readiness Gauge pick up where the Gauge stops.
FAQs
What access do you need, exactly?
Tenant admin read access. We bring the scripts and rely on admin-center exports; we don't modify anything, and access is removed when the engagement ends. We'll provide the precise permission list before kickoff so your security team can review it.
Focused or extended — how do we choose?
Choose focused if you mainly need visibility: what exists, who owns it, what's at risk. Choose extended if decisions are already looming — a CoE, an ALM overhaul, an environment redesign — and you want the architecture review and interviews to inform them. The callback conversation will confirm the fit either way.
Our estate is small. Is this overkill?
Sometimes, and we'll say so on the free fit call. But small estates with personal-credential flows or unowned critical apps carry the same category of risk as large ones — the inventory just takes less time to read.
Will this disrupt our users or makers?
No. Collection is read-only and invisible to end users. Makers are only involved if you choose the extended tier's interviews.
What happens after the readout?
You get a callback within one business day of your form submission to start, and after the readout the roadmap is yours. If you want us to execute part of it, the fee credit applies to qualifying implementation work. If not, no follow-up campaign — we're easy to find when you're ready.
Can our own team execute the roadmap?
Yes, and it's written for that. Every roadmap item states the problem, the fix, and the sequence rationale in plain language, without depending on IMP0WER to decode it.
Not ready? The free 10-question Governance Scorecard gives you a directional read first — take it now, no email needed.