Reviewing us as a vendor? Start here.

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We are a small firm asking to be trusted with access to systems that matter. This is what we would want to see if the roles were reversed — including the parts that are not finished yet.

Legal entity, jurisdiction and address

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entityAutomated Solutions LLC[PLACEHOLDER: registered name, state, address]

AS DataWorks is the trading name for the data and Azure practice of Automated Solutions LLC, a US company. The AS DataWorks DBA filing is pending; until it is complete we are not going to assert a registered relationship we have not filed, and this page states no registered address — an absent address beats an invented one. The full entity picture, and what is still outstanding on it, is on about.

At least five other active US businesses trade under "Automated Solutions" or a close variant, including one operating under the identical legal name "Automated Solutions, LLC." We are not affiliated with any of them, and nothing on this site describes their work. If a search result, directory listing or referral sent you here expecting a different company, check that you are reading asdataworks.com.

Internal entity-name collision review

How we access client tenants

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during an assessmentread-only · we change nothing

We hold ourselves to the same access standard we build for clients:

Named individual accounts
For every engineer who touches your environment. No shared credentials, ever.
Least privilege by default
Elevation is requested, approved by a named individual, granted for a fixed and logged time window, and returned automatically to no standing access — not standing administrator rights held indefinitely.
Multi-factor authentication enforced
On our accounts, including for administrators.
Read-only access during assessments
We inspect; we do not change configuration until you approve a plan.
A documented offboarding process
Executed at the end of an engagement and evidenced to you, not assumed.
Subprocessors named before you sign
Where any of your data is handled, listed in writing.
Least-privilege access path A named individual account carries no standing elevated access. Elevation is requested, approved by a named approver, granted for a fixed, logged time window, and expires automatically back to no standing access. Standing global admin and shared logins are not permitted. Your tenant 1 2 3 4 5 Namedaccount Requestelevation Approve(named) Time-boxedaccess, logged Expiresautomatically Access expires automatically and returns to no standing access. Not permitted: standing global admin, shared logins.
The elevation path for a named engineer's account: request, named approval, a time-boxed and logged grant, then automatic expiry back to no standing access. Standing global admin and shared logins are not permitted.

This is engineering discipline, not attestation — it makes an audit answerable, it does not replace the auditor.

Data handling and subprocessors

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retentionnot yet policy[PLACEHOLDER: period and data-subject contact]

Website enquiries (the contact form) are stored in a Microsoft 365 SharePoint list inside our own tenant, and we are notified by Microsoft Teams and email. They are not sold, shared, or used for anything beyond replying to the enquiry.

Subprocessors used to run this site and its forms
SubprocessorWhat it does hereData involvedConsent required
MicrosoftHosting (Azure Static Web Apps) and Microsoft 365 (SharePoint, Teams, Power Automate) for form handlingContact-form submissions; site hosting logsNo — required to operate the site
GitHubSource control and CI/CD deployment of this websiteSource code and build logs only — no visitor or form dataNo
PlausibleCookieless website analytics (page views, referrers)Aggregate usage data — no cookies, no personal dataNo — Plausible is cookieless by design
Google AdsAdvertising conversion measurement — not active at launch; added only if and when paid campaigns beginAd-click and conversion data, if and when enabledYes — consent-gated, denied by default under Consent Mode v2

Retention for non-converted enquiries is not yet adopted policy — 24 months is our own build documentation's recommendation, not a commitment — and there is no named data-subject request contact published yet. The privacy notice carries the version of both that ships today.

Our own security posture

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next snapshot duethe case study

Before recommending a tenant review to anyone else, we ran one on ourselves: the identity, licensing, sharing, device and email-authentication review we sell as the first step of an Azure migration.

secure score

52.1 / 64

Internal Secure Score review

Remediation of the findings is underway now. We are publishing the baseline today because it is real and checkable. We are deliberately not publishing the open finding list while it is still open — a public list of unremediated gaps in a live tenant is an attack map, not a trust signal. The baseline, the method and the outstanding after-number are written up at Microsoft 365 tenant hardening, which is where the second number and the list of what we chose not to fix will appear once remediation is complete.

Incident response

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notification SLAnone published[PLACEHOLDER: a tested timeline]

If we discover an incident affecting data we hold on your behalf — including a compromise of the systems behind the contact form — we will tell you directly, in plain language, as soon as we have facts we are confident are accurate. We do not have a published notification-timeline SLA yet, and we are not going to state one until it is a commitment we have actually tested and can keep. An unmet promise here would be worse than an honest gap.

Insurance, MSA and DPA

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What we do not have

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certifications heldnone

We do not hold SOC 2, ISO 27001, or any other third-party security certification, and we display no badge, seal or logo claiming otherwise. What we do have is publishable: real named-individual access controls, the least-privilege model shown above, and our own Secure Score trajectory, published warts and all. If your review requires a certification we do not hold, tell us directly — we would rather lose the deal honestly than pass a review we did not actually earn.

Start with the assessment, not the migration.

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