Configuring the 7 Lenses
A lens is a stakeholder’s reading of the same Context: a way of interpreting that shared picture to answer one class of questions. The stakeholder can be a person or a machine. A lens is not a dashboard and not a separate product module.
The seven named lenses are reference use cases. Customers configure the ontology, attributes, relationships, mappings, and context each one needs, and they can combine or extend them. The lead use case is Security: you cannot protect what you do not know you have.
| # | Lens | Written for | The question it answers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Security Lens | Chief Security Officers, CISOs and cybersecurity teams. | What do we actually have, what is exposed, and what sits behind each entry point? |
| 02 | CTO Governance Lens | Chief Technology Officers and the architecture, platform and operations leaders responsible for the technology estate. | Is the technology estate production-ready and under control? |
| 03 | CFO Capital Lens | Chief Financial Officers and finance leaders responsible for technology cost, investment and business value. | Where does technology spend leak, and what does it do to the business? |
| 04 | CIO Strategy Lens | Chief Information Officers and technology leadership responsible for aligning technology with enterprise strategy. | How do delivery and spend connect to the organization’s plans? |
| 05 | Lock-In Free Lens | Enterprise architecture, technology leadership, CTO, CFO, CISO, and anyone responsible for consistency across multiple technology-management platforms. | How do we own our enterprise semantics and integrate any tool without redefining the enterprise inside each one? |
| 06 | Automation & AIOps ROI Lens | CIO, CTO, Operations leadership, Automation and AIOps teams, and the CFO. | What is automation and AI actually delivering across the operation, and where is the ROI? |
| 07 | AI Lens | Teams deploying autonomous AI agents, plus the security and platform owners accountable for what those agents can reach and change. This lens is primarily consumed by machines, not by a person at a dashboard. | Help AI understand the company before it acts — what can agents reach and change? |
The Written for column is the reference audience for that question. It is not a permission model.
Choose your first lens
Section titled “Choose your first lens”- Pick a question a leader needs answered and cannot answer today.
- Check that the facts already live in the systems you have.
- Start with one lens, then combine and extend.