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Where does your team's infrastructure inventory stand? 20 questions and you'll know.

The CMDB Maturity Scorecard is a free, 20-question self-assessment of your team's CMDB, the database that shows what's running in your environment and what depends on what. It takes about 10 minutes, and your results arrive by email: where your team stands on the 5 levels of the classic Capability Maturity Model (CMM), and what a realistic next step looks like from there.

CMM MATURITY LEVELS
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Most 1–5 person teams start at level 1 or 2. Nobody is going to hold you to level 5.

WHO'S BEHIND THISI'm Tamás Gellai. I built a production CMDB at a large enterprise, end to end, and I run it to this day: from designing the data model, through the data intake pipelines, the reports built from normalized data, and automated discovery, to interactive visualization and the operational tools that run on top of the CMDB. As the person running it, I also know the failure modes: aging data, the trust that goes out the door with it, the edge cases in discovery. As a technical contributor, I took part in CMDB maturity assessments. I'm now turning that experience into a course on how to build your own CMDB.

What the scorecard gives you

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A level and a score.
What used to take a long explanation now fits in one level and one number: where your inventory stands.
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Five areas, one at a time.
Scope and data model, data intake and freshness, discovery and automation, data quality and governance, reporting and use. As you fill it out, you'll see which one is holding you back the most.
Scope and data model
Data intake and freshness
Discovery and automation
Data quality and governance
Reporting and use
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A guide to the next level.
Your results come with the Results Guide (PDF): what your level means in practice, and the concrete steps that take you one level up, sized for a team of 1–5 people.
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No CMDB tool required.
Built for IT teams of 1–5 people, it doesn't assume you have any system in place. If your inventory lives in Excel or in two colleagues' heads today, that's as valid a starting point as any.

For a small team, level 1 or 2 is the typical starting point, and the scorecard shows you the next level from there. Nobody is going to hold you to level 5.

HOW IT WORKS
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Fill out 20 questions
Takes about 10 minutes
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Results arrive by email
Your level, your score
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Results Guide (PDF)
Concrete steps to the next level

Don't have 10 minutes right now? Enter your email, we'll send you the link, and you can fill it out whenever you have time.

Privacy Policy (last updated: August 23, 2026)

This page explains what happens to your email address when you use the CMDB Maturity Scorecard or sign up for a reminder link on theseusproject.dev.

What we collect — Your email address, and if you complete the scorecard, your quiz answers and results (level and score).

Why we collect it — To send you your scorecard results and the Results Guide (if you complete the quiz), or the scorecard link (if you request a reminder). Occasionally, we'll also send you updates about the Build Your Own CMDB course.

Who processes it — Your responses are processed using Tally (quiz platform) and MailerLite (email delivery), both GDPR-compliant processors.

Your rights — Unsubscribe anytime via the link in any email. To request access to or deletion of your data, email [email protected].

Who we are — Theseus Project is operated by Tamás Gellai, based in the EU. Contact: [email protected].

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