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The technical brief

Your review is 30 minutes.
Your build is nothing.

Everything a technical reviewer needs to approve Beacon: what it reads, what it never touches, what your team has to do, and how to switch it off. Nothing to fill in, nothing to send back.

Why this review usually stalls

The tool gets approved. The engineering never gets scheduled.

The integration ask
The business picks a tool, and the real bill arrives as a pipeline, a schema mapping and a warehouse table someone now owns.
The catch
It goes in the backlog behind everything customers can see. That is where it stays.
The credential problem
A vendor asks for a service account, an API key, or a seat with more access than it needs, and someone has to own that key for as long as the contract runs.
The catch
Every key you hand out is one you now have to rotate, audit and remember.
The AI question
A number appears on a board slide and nobody in the room can say whether a model produced it, or where it came from.
The catch
You are the one who gets asked to vouch for it, after it has already been presented.
None of these are yours. Beacon connects through your own login screens, keeps your records where they are, and computes every figure the same way every time.
What your team actually does

Six line items. Four of them are nothing.

The honest accounting of engineering effort, from go-ahead to live. If any line here turns out to be wrong for your estate, that is the thing to tell us on the call.

Data pipelines, ETL, schema mapping
None
The data model ships standardized. Sources map through guided configuration, not code.
A warehouse to build or maintain
None
Not required at this scale. If you already run one, Beacon sits alongside it rather than replacing it.
Custom integration code
None
Native connectors only. Nothing for your team to write, review or patch when a source changes.
Ongoing tickets and operations
None
Connector health is monitored on our side. A source that fails pauses what depends on it and says so.
Approving connections
About 1 hour
Your admins authorize each source in that system's own login screen. Scopes are listed in plain words before you click.
This review
About 30 minutes
This page and the checklist below. A live session with us whenever you want one.
Total engineering time
90 minutes

Once, at the start. There is no second phase where the real work arrives.

The 30 minutes

Six things to check. Every one has a page behind it.

This is the whole review. Each item links to where the answer is written down, so you are reading our position rather than taking our word for it.

Scopes

Every source we read, and every destination we can write back to, listed by system.

See the connector list →

Credentials

Why Beacon holds no key of yours, and how you cut any connection from your own side.

Read: keys and access →

Where records live

What stays in your systems, what Beacon keeps, and where it is held.

Read: data you bring into Beacon →

Access ceilings

How far any one source travels, and what an external seat can and cannot see.

Read: where the boundary sits →

The AI line

The eight things Beacon never does in any configuration — including computing a headline figure.

Read: the fixed lines →

Exit

What you can revoke, what you can export, and how long anything is kept.

Read: how long we keep it →

Hosting, subprocessors, transfers and certification status

These are not a pack you have to request. They are written into the documents we publish and keep current: the subprocessor list with roles and hosting regions, where data is held and transferred, encryption in transit and at rest, and certification status stated as it actually stands rather than as a promise.

The parts that don't change

Read-first, human-approved, and revocable from your side.

Your keys stay yours

Every source is connected by your admin in that system's own login screen. Beacon never asks for, stores or completes a login, and each connection is revocable in your own system without contacting us.

Writes need a person

Scope is declared per system in plain words, and anywhere not listed is read-only. Every write is drafted and queued until someone approves it. Beacon never writes to your books or your billing ledger.

Leaving is a settings page

Revoke a connector in the source system, or any reader grant in Beacon, at any time. Your records were never moved. Exports of the derived data and the sealed history are available on request.

The eight things Beacon never does in any configuration, and where the boundary sits for each one, are set out on security & boundaries. This page is the review pack; that one is the argument underneath it.

What you are not taking on

Nothing lands in your backlog. Nothing lands in your on-call.

For you

A review you can finish today, on evidence you can verify yourself, without booking a discovery call to find out what the integration really costs.

For your team

No pipeline to own, no schema to maintain, no key to rotate, and no ticket queue arriving three months after someone else signed the contract.

For the business

The thing they bought starts working in weeks rather than waiting behind the roadmap — and the numbers it produces can be traced when someone asks.

When you're ready

Bring the hardest question you have. That's the call we want.

Or start free and check every claim on this page against your own connected data.