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Every read Aristo needs is granted (5 of 5); connect the Cost Management export next and your dollar figures turn from estimate to measured.

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Microsoft Graph — Copilot usage reports
How many seats show qualifying Copilot activity, how many do not, and the activation percentage every workspace leads with.
How it is known, and while it is absent
counted · Microsoft 365 · reading updated 24 September 2026
While it is absent: The reading carries `usagePending`, and every activation figure says the count is unread rather than showing a zero. A zero here would be indistinguishable from an organization nobody is using Copilot in.
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Microsoft Graph — license truth
Seats bought versus seats assigned, per SKU, and the seats already inside a renewal grace window. The denominator under every cost-per-seat figure in the product.
How it is known, and while it is absent
counted · Microsoft 365 · counted at 24 September 2026
While it is absent: The read returns nothing and the license figures are withheld entirely — they are never inferred from usage, because a seat nobody used is not the same object as a seat nobody bought.
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Microsoft Graph — directory departments
Which department each person belongs to, so the program can be reported by team. Aggregate only — no per-person row is ever built from it.
How it is known, and while it is absent
counted · Microsoft 365
While it is absent: Every department view says so and falls back to the organization total. No department is invented and no person is placed in one by guesswork.
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Microsoft Graph — seat map and department utilization
Which teams hold the seats and which of those seats are working — the whole Users & teams workspace and the department table on the money pages.
How it is known, and while it is absent
counted · Microsoft 365 · crawled at 24 September 2026
While it is absent: The team tables are withheld. Where they are present, a team of fewer than five people is never shown on its own: it is shown together with other teams in one row, and nothing is dropped.
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Microsoft 365 Message Center and the public roadmap feed
The Copilot rollout radar. Two feeds join one table and every row is stamped with which of the two it came from.
How it is known, and while it is absent
counted · Microsoft 365 · Microsoft public roadmap read on 16 October 2026
While it is absent: The radar shows the PUBLIC feed only, and labels every row public. A public roadmap item is never allowed to wear the tenant's own Message Center authority.
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Microsoft Graph — sign-in audit logs
How many people signed into a third-party AI application with a work identity — the unsanctioned-AI reading on Security & risk.
How it is known, and while it is absent
counted · Microsoft 365 · signal at 24 September 2026
While it is absent: The signal reads NOT MEASURED, never zero. A zero would be the most reassuring lie in the product: it is indistinguishable from a read nobody granted.
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Microsoft Graph — agent registry (beta)
The tenant's own catalog of declarative agents on the AI agents workspace.
How it is known, and while it is absent
counted · Microsoft 365
While it is absent: The catalog section states that the read is dark and names the consent. It never falls back to the curated illustrative catalog for a real organization.
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Azure Cost Management — reconciled export
The actual dollars for Cowork and credit consumption, per month, from the customer's own billing export. This is the source that upgrades the money pages from an envelope estimate to a measured figure.
How it is known, and while it is absent
measured · Microsoft Azure
While it is absent: Every Cowork and credit dollar is shown as a labeled ESTIMATE envelope, with the estimate chip on it, in every place it appears. The number does not go missing; the word on it changes.
Turns on: Connect a read-only Cost Management export SAS on the Settings page.
Not connected
Month-grained product and department history
The seat position per team month by month (the department table's change and trend columns) and paid seats per product month by month. The dollar stack by product remains the sample organization's instrument: metered consumption is not attributed to a product family for a real organization.
How it is known, and while it is absent
counted · Aristo
While it is absent: The department table shows an em dash in its change and trend columns and says which month history begins; no product seat history is drawn. Nothing is drawn as a flat line.
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Copilot credits report
Credit consumption per billing policy — the run rates behind the spend lights and the credit share of the money trend.
How it is known, and while it is absent
measured · Microsoft 365 admin center
While it is absent: The spend lights fall back to the estimate envelope and say so on each light. No light is shown green on an estimate it cannot stand behind.
Turns on: Export the credits report from the Microsoft 365 admin center and paste it on the Settings page.
Not connected
This organization's own settings
The seat cost every return figure is multiplied by, the monthly Cowork cap, and the enforcement mode beside it.
How it is known, and while it is absent
provided · Aristo
While it is absent: The seat cost falls back to a labeled ASSUMPTION and carries that word wherever it is used. An assumed seat cost is never allowed to wear the measured chip.
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Aristo's own run history
Every month-over-month comparison in the product: what changed, which direction, and the number of the newest stored run the reading on screen is compared against. Since 21 August 2026 each run also records the seven chargeback quantities the KPI strips report — paid seats, seats waiting for a user, department rows, averageable departments, charged-back headcount, charged seats and the seat price they were costed at — so those cards can draw a movement instead of naming a missing figure. Each comparison identifies whether its records are measured or illustrative.
How it is known, and while it is absent
counted · Aristo · previous run 25 August 2026
While it is absent: Comparisons are withheld and the pages say there is no prior run yet. A delta against nothing is not rendered as flat. A run recorded before a given figure began to be persisted says so specifically — it is a different fact from having no earlier run at all, and it is not reconstructed backwards.
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Move plans and their completion
Which recommended moves this organization has taken up, and how many have been completed.
How it is known, and while it is absent
counted · Aristo
While it is absent: The plans section is an empty state with a way to start, never a zero dressed as a result.
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The forged-agent register
How many agents this organization has built, who made each one, and the capability scope each maker attested to.
How it is known, and while it is absent
counted · Aristo
While it is absent: An empty register renders as an empty state with the reason. A count of the PEOPLE who built them is floored at five and withheld below it.
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The skill shelf
How many skills are published for this organization and how many times they have been taken.
How it is known, and while it is absent
counted · Aristo
While it is absent: The shelf renders as empty with a way to publish, never as a zero result.
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Business license inventory
Every license the organization holds beyond Copilot, so the chargeback view can show what else is being paid for.
How it is known, and while it is absent
counted · Microsoft 365
While it is absent: The inventory shows an em-dash and the exact permission that would fill it.
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The tenant registry
The organization's name, as it appears at the top of every page and on every report.
How it is known, and while it is absent
provided · Aristo
While it is absent: Pages address "your organization" rather than inventing a name.
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The composition instant
The "as of" stamp in the top bar and on every figure that has no fresher stamp of its own.
How it is known, and while it is absent
counted · Aristo · composed at 24 September 2026
While it is absent: It is never absent — which is exactly why it must be read carefully. It records when ARISTO COMPOSED this view, not when any underlying system collected its data. The composition is cached for forty-five seconds, and the documents beneath it can be hours or days older. Where a source carries its own stamp, that stamp is what the row above shows.
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The Frontier score engine
The estate score and its band, computed from the pillars above it. Each pillar carries its own provenance — measured, or self-reported — and the score states what it was computed over.
How it is known, and while it is absent
computed · Aristo
While it is absent: A pillar with no reading is DROPPED and the remaining weights are re-normalized over what is available. It is never scored zero — a zero would read as a failing grade for a permission nobody granted.
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The readiness engine
Who is credit-ready, the suggested capped funding, and the tier a leader is asked to act on.
How it is known, and while it is absent
computed · Aristo
While it is absent: The readiness tier is withheld rather than defaulted to the lowest one.
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The strategy engine
The narrative sentence at the top of the product and the ranked moves under it, each with the counted figure that justifies it.
How it is known, and while it is absent
computed · Aristo
While it is absent: No move is recommended, and the page says so rather than offering a generic suggestion.
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The license economics engine
Seats waiting for a user, the cost of licenses waiting for a user, and the cost-per-working-seat figure the chargeback pages are built on.
How it is known, and while it is absent
computed · Aristo
While it is absent: Every derived dollar is withheld. Where the seat cost underneath it is an assumption rather than a provided figure, the result carries `seatCostAssumed` and the assumption chip travels with it.
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The value economics engine
Returned value, protected spend and the proof boundary used by the Value Report. Counted, attested and causal inputs remain distinct rather than being totalled into one unsupported claim.
How it is known, and while it is absent
computed · Aristo
While it is absent: The Value Report withholds the return equation and says which input is unavailable. It never borrows license recoverability as returned value.
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The spend-light engine
The budget traffic lights, and the month-by-month spend trend under them. Each light carries the basis of the number it was computed from, and each month of the trend is drawn solid when measured and hatched when estimated.
How it is known, and while it is absent
computed · Aristo
While it is absent: A light with no number it can stand behind is not shown green — it is shown as not ready, with the reason. A team of fewer than five people has no light of its own: its budget is read together with those of other teams, and a light that would give away a count about fewer than five people says it is not shown.
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The spend projection
Where this month's spend is heading, on the analytics workspace.
How it is known, and while it is absent
projection · Aristo
While it is absent: The projection is withheld and the page says how much history is still needed.
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The score trajectory
The "on pace to cross into the next band" sentence, where there is enough history to support one.
How it is known, and while it is absent
projection · Aristo
While it is absent: The sentence is simply not written. It is withdrawn the moment the trend stops supporting it rather than being restated with a smaller number.
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The live grant state
Every permission table in the product: what this tenant has actually consented to, decoded from the roles claim in its own app token.
How it is known, and while it is absent
counted · Microsoft Entra
While it is absent: The whole table is withheld and the page says the state could not be decoded. It is never rendered as "nothing granted", which is what the underlying call returns on failure and is a different claim entirely.
Turns on: It reads whatever is granted. It is decoded per request and is never cached into a page.
Not checked here
The insight store
The lifecycle of every finding this product has raised — its status, its owner, and every change made to it.
How it is known, and while it is absent
counted · Aristo
While it is absent: Findings render without their lifecycle rather than disappearing.
Turns on: A finding raised by the engines is materialized the first time it is seen, idempotently.
Not checked here
The report registry and its schedules
Every generated report and its frozen figures, plus the schedules that generate them. Each stored report carries its own per-figure freshness and a digest of the figures it froze.
How it is known, and while it is absent
counted · Aristo
While it is absent: The library is an empty state with a way to generate the first one.
Turns on: Generate a report, or schedule one, on the Reports workspace.
Not checked here
The operations audit register
The auditability page: every act that changed money, licenses, governance or configuration, with the role that carried it out.
How it is known, and while it is absent
counted · Aristo
While it is absent: The trail says it could not be read rather than showing an empty history, which would suggest nothing had ever happened.
Turns on: It is written by the acts themselves. Nothing is written by reading a page.
Not checked here
Every figure, and the sources it stands on · 47
activationPctMicrosoft Graph — Copilot usage reports
agentInventoryMicrosoft Graph — agent registry (beta)
agentsBuiltThe forged-agent register
bliBusiness license inventory
budgetEnforceThis organization's own settings
cmUsageAzure Cost Management — reconciled export
coworkBudgetUsdThis organization's own settings
creditBasisAzure Cost Management — reconciled export
creditPctAzure Cost Management — reconciled export
demoAristo's own run history
deptRowsMicrosoft Graph — directory departments
deptTrendMonth-grained product and department history
deptUtilMicrosoft Graph — seat map and department utilization
deptsMicrosoft Graph — directory departments
frontierThe Frontier score engine
generatedAtThe composition instant
historyAristo's own run history
idleSpendMoMicrosoft Graph — Copilot usage reports
lastRunNumberAristo's own run history
licenseMicrosoft Graph — license truth
licenseEconomicsMicrosoft Graph — license truth · The license economics engine
monthSplitLedgerMonth-grained product and department history
movesThe strategy engine
narrativeThe strategy engine
orgThe tenant registry
plansMove plans and their completion
prevAristo's own run history
previousRunNumberAristo's own run history
productSeatsMonth-grained product and department history
productTrendMonth-grained product and department history
radarMicrosoft 365 Message Center and the public roadmap feed
readinessThe readiness engine
seatCostThis organization's own settings
seatRowsMicrosoft Graph — seat map and department utilization
seatRowsWithheldMicrosoft Graph — seat map and department utilization
seatSlicesMicrosoft Graph — seat map and department utilization
shadowAiMicrosoft Graph — sign-in audit logs
skillDownloadsThe skill shelf
skillsOnShelfThe skill shelf
sliceLabelsMicrosoft Graph — seat map and department utilization
spendLightsCopilot credits report · The spend-light engine
spendLightsWithheldKThe spend-light engine
spendProjectionThe spend projection
spendTrendAzure Cost Management — reconciled export · Copilot credits report · The spend-light engine
statsMicrosoft Graph — Copilot usage reports
trajectoryThe Frontier score engine · The score trajectory
valueEconomicsThe value economics engine