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Commercial Pattern

Continuous audits, productized

Deliver daily compliance and drift checks your customers can license and trust.

This commercial pattern turns manual daily compliance and drift validation into a packaged workflow product that runs reliably in customer environments.

Commercial pattern snapshot

  • Recurring compliance, packaged
  • Runs in customer environments
  • Commercial controls built in

The problem

Manual compliance checks don’t scale across customers.

Each new tenant increases operational cost instead of increasing revenue leverage.

The Opscotch approach

Transform recurring audit logic into a licensed, versioned product.

Package them as licensed products that:

  • Run in customer environments
  • Execute continuously (minutely, hourly, daily)
  • Emit pass/fail signals automatically
  • Enforce usage through built-in licensing

This shifts recurring operational work into product leverage.

Turn recurring operational work into a licensed, distributable product

About commercial patterns

Commercial Patterns show how to turn automation logic into licensed, deployable products. They are not prebuilt solutions - they are implementation blueprints. Opscotch provides the runtime, packaging, and commercial enforcement layer. You build the product.

Why?

Where this creates leverage

Recurring compliance, packaged

Turn repeat audit logic into a versioned workflow product instead of a recurring daily tasks.

Runs in customer environments

Execute checks where infrastructure and policy data already live, with no replatforming.

Commercial controls built in

Apply licensing, signing, and usage enforcement as part of the runtime behavior.

Why sell this as a product?

  • Turn recurring compliance into subscription revenue
  • Deliver daily checks without people involved
  • Maintain control with signed packages
  • Avoid handling raw customer data
  • Enforce usage with built-in licensing

What you implement

  • Data collection logic
  • Domain-specific rules
  • Baseline definitions
  • Signal thresholds
  • Integration endpoints

How the workflow operates

1. Collect

Inventories + configs

2. Normalize

Align entity IDs

3. Compare

Baseline vs. current

4. Emit

Pass/fail outputs

Examples

Example: SaaS Security Audit Product

A security vendor builds a package that:

  • Connects to a customer’s cloud service provider
  • Retrieves users and MFA setting
  • Calculate the count of uses without MFA
  • Emit a metric with current value
  • Compare the value from the last run
  • If more people don't have MFA set than the last run, raise a ticket

The workflow runs inside the customer’s environment and is licensed per tenant.

Example: Observability Data Audit Product

An Observability vendor builds a package that:

  • Connects to infrastructure catalogue
  • Queries catalogue for asset ids
  • Connects to observability platform
  • Queries observability platform for reporting asset ids
  • Calculate missing asset ids in the observability platform
  • Raise a ticket for remediation

Why This Is a Pattern, Not a Package

This pattern is intentionally not prebuilt.

Compliance logic is domain-specific.

Every deployment differs by:

  • Data sources (SaaS APIs, cloud providers, internal systems)
  • Policy frameworks (CIS, SOC2, ISO, proprietary rules)
  • Rule definitions and thresholds
  • Output formats and integration targets

The combination of sources and rules is effectively infinite.

Opscotch provides the runtime, packaging, and commercial controls. You define the audit logic that differentiates your product.