PAID, FIXED-SCOPE ASSESSMENT
The Fabric Economics Assessment connects the commercial bill, Microsoft-native usage evidence and the customer’s ownership context. It creates a defensible baseline, a draft policy, an exceptions ledger and a decision-ready intervention plan — then asks the customer whether a recurring close is valuable.
START WITH THE TRIGGER
The assessment is designed for a renewal, bill, capacity, ownership or intervention decision — not for a generic dashboard request.
OBJECTIVE COMPLEXITY
Public experiment prices remain withheld while commercial, legal and claims review is open. Scope is classified through the factors below; the complex band is not unlimited complexity.
BOUNDED
COMPLEX / MULTI-CAPACITY
Out of rubric: narrow, phase, separately scope through FabOps Operate or Onyx consulting, or defer.
DATA-READY GATE
The minimum pack connects commercial, native usage and ownership evidence for an agreed period.
A missing item prevents the method or clock start.
Work can continue with lower confidence and a disclosed exception.
The input improves the decision but is not required.
WHAT WE DO
Classify evidence, quality, period alignment and limitations.
Connect bill and commitment evidence to native usage, disclose coverage and explain variance.
Map consumption where evidence supports it; draft shared-cost, idle-capacity and exception treatment.
Show allocated, unallocated and disputed amounts with source, method, version and confidence.
Prioritise opportunities and state the guardrails, owner, expected mechanism and measurement card.
Review with platform and Finance participants; record accepted, provisional and disputed states.
The customer selects one of four outcomes in writing.
ACCEPTANCE AND CONFIDENCE
Not customer reviewed.
Comments are recorded.
Disputed or low-confidence items are identified.
The customer confirms the criteria are met.
A required approver is unavailable; no Finance-accepted claim is made.
Targets are method gates, not guaranteed customer results.
VALUE CLASSIFICATION
A condition exists.
It may be changed under the customer’s constraints.
The customer accepts the action, owner, guardrails and method.
The result is measured and accepted.
Only realised, customer-confirmed financial results may be discussed as realised savings. The FEA normally produces observed, addressable or approved evidence and a verification plan — not instant realised value.
FOUR VALID ENDINGS
The initial default recurring-product hypothesis.
An enterprise-custom route for sufficient complexity and economics.
A bounded services and evidence route without assuming recurring software.
A valid conclusion. The customer retains the assessment evidence; Onyx does not force a subscription.
COMMERCIAL AND TRUST BOUNDARIES
The engagement-specific route states where work executes, what authorised evidence moves, who can access it, retention and deletion. No universal architecture statement substitutes for that schedule.
Outcome-data permission is separate, explicit and optional. Case-study consent is separate. Declining does not reduce the purchased deliverables.
CONDITIONAL TRANSACTION ROUTE
Where current eligibility and billing arrangements permit, the FEA may be transacted as professional services through a Microsoft Marketplace customer private offer.
Security, legal, DPA, architecture, procurement and customer purchase approval may still be required. The route is never represented as decrementing MACC or Azure commitment, eliminating vendor onboarding or applying to every customer or geography.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Those tools can provide important native evidence. The FEA tests the additional customer-specific job: commercial reconciliation, ownership policy, confidence and exceptions, accepted actions and a verification method.
No. The initial method is transparent management showback. Formal chargeback and accounting treatment belong to the customer’s Finance policies and any later approved scope.
No guarantee is made. The assessment records evidence and opportunities, separates value states and states how approved interventions would be verified.
Critical missing evidence can pause or delay the clock. Degradable limitations are disclosed with lower confidence and exceptions rather than hidden.
No. The written ending can be a customer-run close, a 90-day verification cycle or no recurring requirement.
QUALIFICATION ROUTE
The qualification call tests the trigger, estate, Finance route, evidence, security and buyer decision. It is not a free mini-assessment and does not force a product outcome.