Classical approaches
- Inventory of systems, accounts and integrations
- Access reviews and least privilege
- Ownership and documentation
- Change control from development to production
Simpolar, a Phoenix, Arizona based technology consulting and managed services firm, helps companies see and govern the AI tools, agents and automations spreading across their business alongside the classic systems they still depend on. We combine classical IT discipline with newer, automated approaches through our Simpolar Scan, and we work inside your environment as it is today.
Copilot agents, Power Platform flows, AI chat accounts, browser extensions, vendor features switched on by default, and automations running under someone's credentials. Most of it arrived quietly, built by people trying to get work done. Underneath sit the systems that have run the business for years: the ERP, the on premises database, the file shares, the line of business app nobody wants to touch. The two are now connected, often in ways nobody has written down.
Neither approach is enough on its own. Older systems need the discipline. AI needs the speed. We use both.
Many providers arrive with a preferred stack and ask your business to fit it. Our working premise runs the other way. Wherever you are starting from, whatever systems and tools you use today, we connect to what you already run and build the picture from there. The security foundation we manage stays consistent. Everything around it is shaped to how your business actually works.
A current map of the AI in your business and the classic systems it touches.
Clear owners, sensible permissions and a path for new AI tools, so useful work keeps moving.
AI tools, automations and integrations documented, so they survive when someone changes roles.
Legacy systems kept stable while AI is added around them, not bolted on blind.
A ranked list of what to fix first, tied to how the business operates.
AI is changing the work.Your people still run it.
Anything that reads or acts on your data with some independence: Copilot and other AI assistants, AI agents, Power Platform flows, AI features inside the software you already pay for, and automations running under a user or service account. The form keeps changing. The questions stay the same: what is running, what can it reach, and who owns it.
No. Our approach is to work with the systems and tools you already use and connect to them where they are.
Yes. Classic systems are often where the most important data lives, so they are part of the map from the start.
Both are possible. Clients on a managed plan get this view as part of how we run their environment, and it is also available as a standalone engagement starting with the Simpolar Scan.
Not as a starting point. The goal is to know what is running, who owns it and what it can reach, so useful AI keeps working and risky AI gets addressed.
Simpolar Insights covers people, process and technology, drawn from real Simpolar engagements.
Start with a baseline view of the AI in your business and the systems underneath it.