Inheriting a tenant means inheriting years of decisions with no decision log. The first-week goal is not to fix anything; it is to build an accurate picture of what exists, which defects are urgent, and what baseline you will measure your tenure against.
The first-week survey#
Map before touching:
- Shape: the group hierarchy, its depth, and its obvious tangles.
- Money: which groups carry licenses and where spend concentrates.
- Defects: circular references, orphans, overlaps, and deep chains, ranked.
- Exceptions: the odd structures that are probably load bearing; note them before judging them.
Baseline everything#
Capture the as-found state before your first change. The baseline protects you twice: it separates inherited problems from anything you cause, and it makes your cleanup progress provable rather than anecdotal when someone asks what you have accomplished.
VisualizerEngine
How VisualizerEngine does it
Onboarding is a read-only consent link, so the survey starts the same day: the full hierarchy, license flows, and ranked defects are the landing view rather than a month of scripting. A first-day snapshot is the defensible baseline, and every later diff documents your progress against it.