How It Works — Acme Widgets

Three steps from chaos to clarity

Catalog — one source of truth for every widget version

The scanner connects to your deployments and inventories every widget — name, version, environment, and the team that owns it. No manual spreadsheets, no "which version is staging running again?" The result is a single live catalog that updates automatically when anything changes.

Example — Northwind Retail

Northwind Retail runs 12 storefronts, each embedding 6–8 UI widgets from 3 internal teams (Core UI, Checkout, and Loyalty). Before Acme Widgets, knowing which version of the Loyalty badge widget was live on each storefront meant asking a Slack channel and waiting.

Scanner runs against all 12 environments in 4 minutes
Surfaces 47 widget×environment pairs, 9 distinct versions in play
Catalog dashboard shows version drift at a glance — 3 storefronts still on Loyalty v2.1, the rest on v2.3

Monitor — health, version drift, and breakage alerts per widget per environment

Once the catalog exists, monitoring is continuous. Acme Widgets tracks version drift (when a deployment falls behind the canonical version), compatibility windows (when a widget drops support for your current host framework), and breakage signals (console errors, failed render checks) — per widget, per environment, in real time.

Example — Northwind Retail, week 2

The Checkout team ships Cart widget v3.0, which drops support for the legacy event API that 4 storefronts are still using.

Compatibility check flags the 4 at-risk storefronts before v3.0 reaches them
Alert fires to the Checkout team Slack channel with environment names and the specific breaking change
The 8 storefronts already on the updated event API are marked safe — no noise for teams that don't need to act

Upgrade — guided paths with compatibility checks before rollout

When it's time to update, Acme Widgets generates an upgrade plan: which widget versions to move to, in what order, with known breaking changes and rollback points listed. You see what's safe to ship today and what needs a code change first — before you touch production.

Example — Northwind Retail, upgrade day

Northwind wants to get all 12 storefronts onto Loyalty v2.3 and Cart v3.0.

Upgrade plan shows: Loyalty v2.3 is safe to roll to all 12 — no breaking changes
Cart v3.0 requires updating the event API in 4 storefronts first — plan lists the 3 files to change
Staged rollout order: Loyalty first across all 12, then Cart after the 4 storefronts are patched
Rollback point defined at each step — if something breaks, revert target is already known

What you see in week one

Concrete artifacts, not promises. Here's what lands in your hands in the first seven days.

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Catalog dashboard Every widget, every version, every environment — in one view. Filterable by team, environment, or version status. Shared link your whole org can bookmark.
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Drift report Which environments are behind, by how much, and for how long. Sorted by risk — the oldest, most-drifted deployments surface first.
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Upgrade-readiness score A single number per environment: 0–100, based on version currency, compatibility window, and open breaking changes. Gives your team a shared target to move toward.
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Alert configuration Slack or email alerts set up for your first compatibility event. You'll know the moment something breaks or drifts past your threshold — not when a user reports it.

Your widget stack,
under control.

Catalog — one source of truth for every widget version

Monitor — health, version drift, and breakage alerts per widget per environment

Upgrade — guided paths with compatibility checks before rollout

What you see in week one

See it on your stack.

Your widget stack,under control.

Catalog — one source of truth for every widget version

Monitor — health, version drift, and breakage alerts per widget per environment

Upgrade — guided paths with compatibility checks before rollout

What you see in week one

See it on your stack.

Your widget stack,
under control.