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Sample deliverable

What a Lock-In Index actually contains.

This is an illustrative example built on a composite estate. AcmeInc is not a real customer and these figures are for illustration. The structure, the method and the level of detail are what you receive.

The real report ships with its underlying inventory data as well, so your team can query it rather than take our word for the totals.

Section A

Estate inventory

What is actually in the platform, counted rather than estimated.

10source types
1,000data flows
1,500datasets
4,000cards
200dashboards
Inventory covers
  • Source systems and connection types
  • Data flows and their transformation steps
  • Datasets, including orphans and duplicates
  • Cards and dashboards, with usage where the platform exposes it
  • Schedules and orchestration dependencies
  • Permission structures and sharing rules
What buyers use this for

The first honest count of the estate. In most assessments a material share of assets turn out to be unused, duplicated or abandoned. That share never needs migrating, and finding it is often the single biggest reduction in exit cost.

Section B

Complexity tiering

Not everything costs the same to move.

Every flow and dashboard is classified by what it would take to reproduce with proven parity. Simple assets map mechanically. Complex ones contain platform-specific behaviour that has to be reimplemented and then proven equivalent. Each tier carries its own cost and timeline, so the total is built from evidence rather than a single blended rate.

TierShare of estateReproductionCost shape
MechanicalillustrativeMaps directly to dbt or SQL, no reimplementation.Lowest per asset, priced in bulk.
AssistedillustrativeGenerated then reviewed by an engineer before parity runs.Mid, priced per asset group.
ReimplementedillustrativePlatform-specific behaviour rebuilt and proven equivalent.Highest, priced per process.
RetireillustrativeUnused, duplicated or abandoned. Not migrated at all.Zero. This is where the savings are.
Tier shares and rates are filled from your own estate. We do not publish placeholder percentages or a cannot-know fixed blend.
Section C

Costed exit

The number the renewal conversation needs.

Cost and elapsed time to exit, broken down by tier and by priority, with a recommended sequence. Presented three ways.

Option 01Full estate exitEverything moved. The upper bound, and the number your vendor's renewal is implicitly priced against.
Option 02Critical processes onlyThe scope most customers actually choose. Regulatory reporting, executive dashboards, shared pipelines.
Option 03Exit Pack onlyKnowledge extracted, no migration. Production unchanged, negotiating position changed.

What buyers use this forProcurement gets a benchmark against the renewal quote. The board gets a decision with a number attached instead of a debate.

Section D

Risk register

What is exposed today, independent of any migration decision.

single points of knowledgeFlows only one person understands, with no written description anywhere.
undocumented logic in reportingCalculations feeding regulated or board-level output that nobody can currently evidence.
broken lineageChains where the path from source to number cannot be traced end to end.
unmapped schedule dependenciesJobs other jobs quietly depend on, with no owner and no documented order.
This section is useful even if you renew and stay.
Section E

Recommendation

Written plainly, including when the recommendation is to stay.

A recommended path with a sequence and a scope. Sometimes that is a full migration. Often it is an Exit Pack now and a decision at the next renewal, from a stronger position. If the honest answer is that leaving is not worth it this year, the report says so.

Yours is free.

The Lock-In Index costs nothing, takes two to three weeks from access, and you keep the report and its underlying data whatever you decide afterwards.

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