Turn messy infrastructure data into a trusted operational baseline.
From Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot, the Data Playbook reconciles spreadsheets and APIs into a governed baseline, with every gap visible.
Usually, this is where Netos starts.
Most network intelligence projects do not fail because the desired report is unclear. They slow down because the data is fragmented, inconsistent, duplicated, incomplete, or trapped in tools that were never designed to agree with each other.
The Data Playbook helps reduce that friction by preparing the foundation before finance or engineering outputs are generated.
Built for data and onboarding.
For
Data owners, platform owners, solution architects, onboarding teams.
Delivers
A clean, mapped, reconciled, enriched data foundation that the rest of Netos runs on.
Inputs
Spreadsheets, ITAM exports, NetBox data, CMDB exports, APIs, supplier files, lifecycle datasets.
The Data Playbook handles the messy middle.
Real customer data rarely lands clean. Common examples the Data Playbook works through:
Columns renamed across exports
Same data, different headers each time. The Data Playbook learns the mapping once and applies it to every future export from that source.
Duplicate devices, different hostnames
Two records, one device. Reconciliation merges, keeps the audit trail, and flags ambiguous matches for human review.
Missing serials and lifecycle fields
Records arrive incomplete. The Data Playbook enriches from vendor and EoX feeds, then scores what was inferred versus verified.
Supplier files vs internal naming
Vendor SKUs and internal product names rarely match. Mappings normalize both ends so finance and inventory speak the same line.
CMDB disagrees with NetBox
Two systems, two versions of the truth. The pipeline surfaces every disagreement so the chosen source of record wins.
Finance records that don't tie to assets
Invoices reference cost centres, not devices. The Data Playbook ties each line back to the asset, site, or circuit that drives it.
Manual edits with no audit trail
Untracked edits break trust. Every change is recorded with source, timestamp, and reviewer, visible end-to-end.
Human-reviewed data quality.
The Data Playbook does not silently overwrite your source of truth. It surfaces mappings, exceptions, confidence scores, and unresolved gaps so your team can review and approve the right changes.
What you get out.
- Clean, mapped, deduplicated inventory
- Reconciliation reports with confidence scores
- Enriched records with lifecycle, financial, and product context
- Repeatable scheduled import pipelines
- Data quality dashboards and exception reports
Reconciliation, scoring, and audit trail stay in Netos. Every downstream output traces back to the same source.
How the Data Playbook works with Netos.
The Data Playbook runs from your own AI tool, Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot, through Netos MCP. It works against the Netos platform: the data model, source of truth, analytics layer, reporting environment, and audit trail.
The playbook prepares, maps, and reconciles your data, while your team keeps control of approvals, the source of truth, and how exceptions are resolved.
What the Data Playbook delivers
Trusted inventory in days, with the evidence to defend it.
- Messy spreadsheets and exports
- CMDB and ITAM records
- Vendor inventory files
- Monitoring tool inventories
- Discovery feeds
- Parse and normalize
- Map fields across sources
- Reconcile duplicates and conflicts
- Enrich with lifecycle and ownership
- Confidence-score every record
- Trusted inventory baseline
- Reconciliation and gap report
- Confidence scores
- Ownership and location map
- Exceptions queue for human review
Explore AI Playbooks
Governed playbooks you run from your own AI tool, built on the Netos platform.
AI Playbooks
Your AI tool, Netos MCP, three playbooks.
BackgroundOur AI Journey
The lessons baked into the playbooks.
You are hereData Playbook
Clean, reconciled inventory.
Next →Finance Playbook
Cost models, renewals, business cases.
Continue the story → PlaybookSystems Playbook
Lifecycle, refresh, audit plans.