Describe the standard
Pick the software, settings and tasks a computer should have — for every client, one client, a tag or a single machine. New computers in scope pick it up on their own.
Tell Overseer what every computer should look like. It reads each machine, puts right whatever has drifted, and checks the result before it calls the job done.
Four steps, the same every time — on one computer or across every client you look after.
Pick the software, settings and tasks a computer should have — for every client, one client, a tag or a single machine. New computers in scope pick it up on their own.
Overseer asks each machine what is really there and compares it with what you declared. This pass changes nothing — it only tells you where things stand.
What is missing gets installed, what is old gets updated and what should not be there comes off — inside the maintenance window you set, or the moment you press Run.
After every action Overseer looks again. A computer is only marked compliant when the check passes, and the whole session is kept for you to read back.
One view of progress, blockers and readiness.
A new computer goes from the box to ready for its user in a single run you can watch: assigned to its client, software installed, restarted where it has to be, then verified.
Define the scope. Preview the work. Trace the authority.
Overseer only acts on its own where somebody has said it may: this client, this item, this action. See exactly what would run before anything does, and afterwards see which decision allowed it.
Search the Windows Package Manager catalogue by name and add an application in one step, or upload your own installer. Built-in scripts cover diagnostics, maintenance, networking, patching and pre-flight checks — and the editor is there when you want to write your own.
A tool that can change every computer you manage has to be able to answer for each change.
People see and do only what their role allows.
Each client’s computers, deployments and history stay with that client.
Who did what, when, and on whose authority — kept in full.
Work happens when you allow it. Restarts follow the rules you set.
Overseer installs as its own lightweight agent and works alongside the remote management tool you have today — on its own, or as part of the Overmind suite.
Onboarding and upkeep stop depending on who happened to do the job. The standard is written down once and held everywhere.
For owners →When something does go wrong, the session shows what ran, what the computer answered and where it stopped.
For technicians →Every screen and every behaviour explained, searchable, and kept in step with each release.
Install the agent and bring in your first computer.
Declaring desired state and who it applies to.
What a session does, stage by stage.
Taking a new computer to ready.
When work may run, and restart rules.
The built-in library and writing your own.
Users, roles, authorisations and the audit log.
What changed, release by release.
Overseer is still being built and is not available yet. If you would like to hear when it launches, get in touch and we will keep you posted.