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Your estate, read in hours. Your decision, in weeks.

A senior-led, AI-accelerated assessment powered by SOLO, our CSDM-first platform engine. It reads your live ServiceNow estate in hours and ends in a remediate-or-rebuild decision, a costed roadmap and a board-ready business case. A decision, not a slide deck.

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Hours

To read your live estate

150+

Read-only checks against live configuration

3-4 weeks

To a remediate-or-rebuild decision

The cost of not knowing

You bought the platform. You're using a fraction of it.

Years of customisation quietly switch native ServiceNow capability off. Service data drifts until features you already pay for stop returning results: trapped, dormant value sitting across the estate.

And now the board wants AI. Nobody can honestly say whether the platform is ready to carry it, because nobody has read the whole estate recently. The usual answer is months of discovery workshops. Ours takes hours.

  • Customisation debt has switched off capability you're still paying for.
  • Trapped value: modules returning empty views because the service data beneath them drifted.
  • An AI decision is looming, and there is no evidence-based answer on platform readiness.

What lands on your desk

Four things, and a decision you can act on

The read produces artefacts, not impressions. Each one stands on its own.

Report

The findings

Every check that failed and why, read from live configuration and data, with the countable evidence behind each one.

Decision

Remediate or re-platform

A recommendation with the reasoning laid out, so the choice is defensible to whoever asks you to justify it.

Roadmap

A costed, prioritised plan

Sequenced by impact against effort, with quick wins separated from structural work.

Board pack

The business case

The slide set and indicative numbers that carry the decision into your next executive conversation.

Platform health at a glance Sample output · first scan read-only scan · nothing changes PLATFORM HEALTH 53/100 first scan · no baseline OOTB ALIGNMENT 90% first scan · no baseline TECHNICAL DEBT 2/10 first scan · no baseline UPGRADE READINESS 78/100 first scan · no baseline CSDM MATURITY 19% first scan · no baseline 53/100 Overall platform health 38 features 37% In active use of the platform Feature status Clean Investigate Blocked Awaiting data Incident Management Change Management Problem Management Knowledge Management Service Catalog CSDM Foundation CMDB Workspace Service Mapping Now Assist for ITSM AI Search Solid = in use · dashed = licensed, not in use · colour = customisation impact
A real scorecard shape from the assessment: headline scores, how much of the platform is genuinely in use, and where customisation has taken features off the upgrade-safe path.
AI advisor: what is blocking the AI layer Root causes, ordered by how much they unlock Now Assist and AI Agents are licensed but not yet enabled: the entitlement is already being paid for. D1 Standard categories emptied Out-of-the-box categorisation replaced with freetext, so grouping and routing models havenothing consistent to learn from. D2 Change risk overridden Risk is set manually on most changes, so thecalculated value no longer reflects reality andcannot be used to predict anything. D3 Broken service layer Application services are incomplete, so impactcannot be resolved and any answer grounded inthe CMDB is unreliable. ~20 of 37 AI capabilities blocked by these three drivers. Remediate them and the AI layer moves from red toward green. Remaining drivers: shadow fields, sparse grounding, access constraints (D4–D8)
From findings to a to-do list: the assessment names the few root causes that unlock the most AI capability.

The roadmap is yours whatever you decide next, including if you deliver it in-house.

The three-stage engine

Scan the facts. Judge with AI. Validate with seniors.

Evidence, not opinion: read straight from live configuration and data, never from a survey.

  1. Scan the facts

    SOLO runs 150+ read-only checks against the live instance: countable facts across every module you run, seen through the CSDM foundation lens.

  2. AI judgement

    Parallel agents work a shared rubric to infer maturity, technical debt and risk across the whole estate.

  3. Senior validation

    A senior consultant confirms the picture with you at the playback. Nothing lands unreviewed, and you choose the deep dives.

  4. The decision

    Remediate or re-platform, backed by live-instance evidence, a costed and prioritised roadmap, and a board-ready business case.

How it runs

Five stages, one decision

A senior-led core that goes broad, plus three chosen deep dives that go deep where the scan finds trouble: AI readiness, CSDM and CMDB foundation, technical debt, integrations, trapped value, or anything else the evidence flags.

  1. Days 1-3

    Mobilise and connect

    Read-only access provisioned; scope agreed.

  2. Hours

    Scan and baseline

    SOLO reads the live instance: 150+ checks.

  3. One session

    Playback and select

    Findings validated together; deep dives chosen.

  4. Weeks 2-4

    Deep dives

    Senior-led investigation where it matters most.

  5. Days 3-5

    Readout and roadmap

    Decision, costed roadmap, business case.

Read-only and write-guarded throughout, so nothing in your instance changes. Remediation is scoped separately, and the roadmap is yours either way.

Who it's for

For platform owners who need an honest answer

  • ServiceNow customers running multiple modules
  • Platform owner and executive sponsor

Evidence, not opinion

Findings are read from live configuration and data. Every claim countable, every conclusion traceable.

Senior-led, AI-accelerated

Senior practitioners accelerated by SOLO's agents, not a pyramid of juniors learning on your platform.

A decision, not a dashboard

It ends in remediate-or-rebuild, with a roadmap you own, even if you deliver it in-house.

Where it leads

The read is the front door

What the assessment finds usually points somewhere specific: the engine that fixes the foundation, the evidence that explains the dependencies, or the governance question sitting behind the AI decision.

Built by Eclipse

SOLO

The AI CSDM agent behind the assessment, and the accelerator for the remediation it recommends.

Explore SOLO Dependency evidence

Parallax

When the scan finds a CMDB that cannot explain how systems depend on each other, Parallax builds the map from evidence.

Explore Parallax AI readiness

Control Tower

If the AI question is why you're assessing, the readiness check tells you where you stand on governance.

Explore Control Tower

Questions we get asked

Before you commit to anything

Does anything change in our instance?
No. Every check is read-only and write-guarded. We ask for a read-only account and nothing we run can alter configuration or data.
What if the answer is that we should re-platform?
Then that is what the report says, with the reasoning and the cost modelling behind it. We would rather lose the remediation work than talk you into it.
Can we use the roadmap without using you to deliver it?
Yes. The roadmap is written to be delivered by anyone, including your own team. It is yours either way.

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