How to Scope Your IaC Governance Trial (What to Test in 14 Days)

A 14-day trial can be a meaningful evaluation—if you scope it like an experiment.

If you scope it like a demo, you’ll learn features but not decision-quality answers.

Start with a hypothesis

Write down the problem you’re solving:

• Do you need faster drift detection?
• Do you want safer reconciliation with approval gates?
• Do you need consistent Terraform/OpenTofu generation across services?
• Are you testing policy enforcement and governance visibility?

Without a hypothesis, “trial success” becomes “we clicked around.”

Days 1–2: connect and verify discovery

• Connect one representative cloud account.
• Connect a repository that reflects your real infrastructure patterns.
• Confirm discovery produces a useful service map (not just a list of files).

Success looks like: your team agrees the topology is accurate enough to generate a meaningful plan.

Days 3–5: triage drift

• Let drift signals surface on the connected environment.
• Classify findings by severity and remediation type.

Success looks like: you can pick at least one finding and create a safe action plan.

Days 6–8: governed reconciliation

• Choose one moderate-risk drift finding.
• Run the remediation through approvals.
• Have a reviewer (not the plan creator) validate the diff context.

Success looks like: the reviewer can decide with confidence because they saw the diff and the governance result.

Days 9–11: validate generation

Generate IaC for a single service and compare:

• correctness (matches what you expect),
• governance alignment (fits your guardrails),
• and effort needed to adjust the result to your standards.

Days 12–14: measure outcomes

Measure:

• time from detection → review,
• time from review → reconciliation,
• how actionable the outputs were for your team.

Then decide what you’ll adopt: drift, approvals, generation, or policy packs.

When you’re ready, choose your plan on the website or start a 14-day trial immediately.