Resources
Tools built for the evaluation you are actually running, and field notes from people who have run networks.
Tools
Six numbers from your baseline; a conservative and a base case; engineer capacity and outage economics kept separate.
Run the calculatorTwenty questions, ten minutes: a stage, a “restored ≠ fixed” index, your three largest gaps and the first door to open.
Take the assessmentTen questions every vendor should answer, 26 criteria with 45-day tests, and a scorecard you weight yourself.
Read the guideBlog
Incident, problem, and change management are separate for good reasons. Most of the avoidable cost is in the handoffs between them, where evidence and context get rebuilt from scratch.
Read the postGetting an agent to work in a demo is easy. Operating it safely for years is the product. What you take on when you build, and what you should own either way.
Read the postChange completion is not proof. Why post-change verification matters more than execution, what the 2026 outage data shows, and where AI actually helps.
Read the postTwo products can both call themselves AI-powered while doing fundamentally different jobs. The way to tell them apart is to ask who decides the next step.
Read the postNews & events
Sponsor and speaker. Raja Tadimeti presents “The Change Succeeded. Did the Network? Building Confidence in Change Outcomes” on October 29 at 3:15 pm ET. Book a meeting.
Event detailsAnonymized findings from network operations teams that completed the self-assessment: stage distribution, dimension averages by segment, the most common gaps. Participants receive it first.
ParticipateThe founding team built networking products at Cisco (opens in a new tab), Juniper (opens in a new tab), and Aruba (opens in a new tab), includes two co-founders of WiteSand (opens in a new tab) and founding and early engineers at Andiamo (opens in a new tab), Insieme (opens in a new tab), and Pensando (opens in a new tab), and holds 32 granted US patents.
See the patentsThe value model, the assessment with the benchmark log and the evaluation scorecard are available as spreadsheets for teams running an evaluation. Taking this to your CIO? Ask for the champion kit: a one-page brief, the business-case template, the security-packet request and the 45-day plan with the mutual action plan.