Know your system before you change it — connect it once and understand your estate forever!
Scout is the platform that maps any complex software system in about 20 minutes, then keeps that map current as the system changes.
Every modernization, migration, merger, or archive project starts with the same problem: nobody fully knows what’s in the system. Decades of code, data, reports, and integrations pile up, and the people who built them have moved on. Before you can safely change anything, someone has to map what’s actually there.
Today that mapping is a four-to-eight-week consulting engagement that costs $50,000 to $150,000 and produces a slide deck that goes stale the next time the code changes.
Scout replaces that with a 20-minute scan — and then it doesn’t stop
You connect a source system — your IBM i, Maximo, Oracle, SQL Server, mainframe, ServiceNow, or any major database — and Scout builds an interactive dependency graph of the entire environment. It scores complexity, classifies every object, finds the data-quality problems and the compliance risks, and writes a plain-English readiness report a CIO can actually read. Then it keeps watching: every time you re-scan, Scout shows you what changed and what it means.
It’s the front door to any serious project — and the system of record you keep afterward. Whether you’re replatforming, integrating an acquisition, or retiring old data, you start with Scout, and everything downstream works from what Scout found.
Get Started Today for Free!
What’s better than free and easy? No sales call. No scoping engagement. No procurement cycle to see whether Scout is worth it.
Sign up, connect a system, and run your first scan — free. You see the dependency graph, the classification, and the AI-narrated report before you talk to anyone. When you’re ready to run real projects, you upgrade in-product. The whole evaluation happens at your pace, in your hands.
Scout Findings Never Grow Old
The reason the old $150,000 assessment failed wasn’t the price. It was that the answer was obsolete the moment the next change shipped. A slide deck is a photograph. Your system is a moving target.
Scout is the opposite of a photograph. It is a living map that updates every time you re-scan — and it tells you what moved.
Drift detection
Re-scan, and Scout reports exactly what changed since last time: new complexity, new risk, new integrations, new regulated data. Nothing surprises you.
The weekly executive brief
A one-page summary lands in your leadership’s inbox automatically. They never have to log in to stay current.
Version history
Every scan is kept. Compare any two points in time and see precisely how the estate evolved.
Living work breakdown
Your migration plan stays in sync with Jira and Microsoft Project as the project moves.
Alerts where you already work
Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, Discord. Scout comes to you.
This is why Scout is a subscription, not a purchase. You’re not buying a report. You’re keeping an always-current understanding of the systems your business runs on.
How It Works
Connect
Point Scout at a source system using direct database credentials or an extractor-script upload. No agents to install, no infrastructure to stand up.
Scan
In about 20 minutes, Scout reads the metadata and builds a complete dependency graph: every file, table, program, report, and relationship.
Understand
Open one of five focused views — what’s risky, what you can retire, what’s regulated, what changed — and read the AI-narrated report. Plain language, not consultant jargon.
Act
Download a migration plan, sign off a compliance certificate, or hand the findings straight to the rest of the Alchemize Suite to do the conversion and the migration.
Keep watching
Scout re-scans on your schedule. Drift detection flags what changed, a weekly brief lands in leadership’s inbox, and your estate map never goes stale.
Scout and The Alchemize Suite
Scout is the first step in a connected platform:
Scout sees it. CodeAlchemist converts it. Alchemize executes it. One platform, one audit chain, one set of rules — for IBM i, Maximo, mainframe, and every database under them. The systems IBM Consulting won’t reach into, we run as a system.
Scout extracts the inventory. CodeAlchemist converts the code. Alchemize Core executes the migration. You scan once — everything downstream reads from the same record. No re-describing your environment, no stale decks, no lost context between phases.
Scout Grows With You Scout meets you where you are and scales as your work scales.
| Tier | Who it’s for | What it unlocks |
| Free | Evaluators, a first scan, a single project consultant | One source system, the dependency graph, the AI-narrated report |
| Team | Mid-market enterprises running one or two active modernization projects | Multiple systems, full reports, version history and diffs, the migration plan, the connected Suite handoff |
| Enterprise | Global enterprises running multi-program modernization | Unlimited systems, SSO and SCIM, audit-log access, segregation-of-duties controls, priority support, multi-org |
Billing runs on Stripe with a self-service portal. You move up a tier when your work demands it — not when a contract renewal forces it.
What You Get - What You Keep
What you get from your first scan:
- An interactive dependency graph you can navigate in the browser
- An executive-summary readiness report with AI-narrated analysis
- Complexity scoring for every object and subsystem
- A migration plan: effort, timeline, risk register, go-live and rollback steps
- A data-quality report — null rates, duplicates, referential-integrity gaps, date anomalies
- A compliance report — sensitive data classified and mapped to GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX
- A signed certificate of what you reviewed and approved, on a tamper-evident audit chain
- A package ready to hand to CodeAlchemist or Alchemize Core if you proceed
What you keep for as long as you subscribe:
- An always-current map of your estate — never a stale deck
- Drift detection that tells you what changed and what it means
- A weekly executive brief delivered automatically to leadership
- Full version history — every scan, with diffs between any two
- A Trust Center auditors and regulators can check without a questionnaire
- A platform that’s ready for the next project the day you need it
Who’s Using Scout
Replatforming teams
You’re moving off an aging platform — IBMi end-of-support, a Maximo upgrade, an Oracle license you no longer want to pay. Scout tells you what’s in the estate, what’s hard, what you can leave behind, and hands the conversion scope straight to the engine that does the work.
Merger & acquisition integration teams
You just acquired a company and you’ve been told to rationalize the application portfolio. Scout scans both environments, surfaces the overlaps and the regulatory exposure, and gives you a defensible record of what you bought — in days, not months.
Archive & compliance teams
You need to retire data you can’t simply delete. Scout classifies what’s sensitive, maps it to the regulations that care, applies your retention policy, and produces an audit-ready compliance report — then hands the archive job to the engine that runs it.
And after the project ships, Scout stays
The replatform ends; the relationship doesn’t. Scout becomes the system of record for what you run and how it changes — monitoring drift, tracking change, ready for the next project before you’ve scoped it.