A verdict is a decision with its reason attached. Keep, redeploy, right-size and replace are the only four, in that order, and each one says how its savings are counted or that none are claimed.
The evidence says it is fine.
The device stays in service. If the calendar had it due this year, the purchase it avoids is recorded as identified savings.
How it counts. Deferred purchase: the unit cost of the class, counted once, for every due device that stays.
Too much machine for its user. Someone else needs it.
The device moves to a seat that is due for a machine of its class. One purchase is avoided when the move is executed.
How it counts. Redeploy pool: the unit cost of the seat it fills. Shown separately as upside and never added to the floor, because the move has to happen first.
Due, and the next one should be smaller.
The device is due, and its replacement is bought in the class the user actually needs. The price difference is recorded.
How it counts. Avoided wrong-size purchase: the unit cost of the bought class minus the unit cost of the class the user needs.
Due, and the signals agree.
Replace now. No savings are claimed on this cohort, and the report says what it will cost to leave it in service.
How it counts. None. The cohort appears in the cost of doing nothing instead, at the support cost of an aging device.
This is how a verdict reads in the report. The device identifier, the class it was bought as, the verdict, then the reasons in the order the scorer weighed them, then what to do with the machine.
A verdict with reasons can be defended in a budget meeting. A refresh date cannot. The engineer who runs CAD all day keeps a workstation that is older than this one; the person who runs email on this one gets a Knowledge Worker laptop at the refresh, and the difference is recorded.
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Right-sizeReplace this device with a Knowledge Worker device. No redeploy match is assumed for the old workstation.
Default weights shown. Every weight and threshold is a setting with a live preview of what it does to the verdict split. Available signals depend on the inventory and telemetry you provide. Workload fit needs application evidence, Windows 11 readiness needs a readiness report or additional hardware inventory, and the report identifies missing signals.
Assigned by evidence, first match wins, every rule editable. Devices matching no rule stay unclassified and are never defaulted into a class. Unit costs are the defaults; your procurement prices replace them.
| Class | Expected life | Default unit cost | Typical role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Task Worker | 5.0 years | $650 | Shared, kiosk or shop-floor machines. Light browser and terminal workloads. |
| Knowledge Worker | 4.0 years | $1,250 | Mid-range laptops for documents, mail, collaboration and line-of-business apps. |
| Executive | 3.5 years | $1,900 | Premium ultraportables. Mobility and build quality over raw compute. |
| Developer | 3.0 years | $2,400 | High-core, high-memory machines for builds, containers and local tooling. |
| Engineer | 3.5 years | $3,200 | Discrete-GPU workstations for CAD, controls and simulation-adjacent work. |
| 3D Engineer | 3.0 years | $5,500 | Professional-GPU workstations for heavy 3D modeling, rendering and simulation. |
Swipe sideways to see every column.
Every external number carries a source. Change any of them and the savings recompute, with the change recorded in the ledger.
| Assumption | Default | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Device prices by class | The class table above | Your procurement data, or the class defaults |
| Support cost of an aging device | Your service desk data: tickets per aging device, hours per ticket, labor rate | Your ticket data. The one per-year industry figure we could verify is vendor-sponsored (Techaisle for Intel and Microsoft, Canada, 2019: CA$1,710 per device per year) and is shown for reference only, never used in a total. |
| Application packaging effort | Your measured hours per application | Your application packaging records |
| Provisioning hours, manual against Autopilot | Your setting | Forrester, Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Intune |
| Service desk labor rate | Your setting | MetricNet service desk benchmarks |
| Windows 10 Extended Security Updates | $61 per device in year one, $122 in year two, $244 in year three. Cumulative, so a device enrolling now pays $183 for years one and two. | Microsoft Learn (year one price and the doubling rule), Microsoft Partner Center (coverage dates) |
The headline figure always equals the sum of the lines above it. The redeploy pool is shown separately as upside and never added to the floor.
Replace claims no savings at all. Its cohort appears in the cost of doing nothing instead, priced at the support cost of an aging device, so the report says what it costs to leave those machines in service rather than pretending the replacement saves money.
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