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Services that close gaps across clients

Find gaps that keep repeating across your portfolio and the service that would fix them all.

ControlMap
Requires MCPby Greg Brydon · Solutions Engineer

Needs an LLM client connected to ScalePad MCP — Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf or similar. Without it the assistant cannot call the recipe's tools.

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Across all ControlMap clients, find the controls most often failing or missing evidence. Group them into themes (for example MFA, backups, security awareness training, logging).

For each of the top 5 themes, list the affected clients and a service [MSP NAME] could offer to close it, and estimate the number of controls it would fix per client. Read-only.

How to work with the ControlMap API (ScalePad MCP):
- Find the client with GET /controlmap/v1/clients/health and use its tenant ID (for example "dundmif") in every request. Some clients have no UUID.
- Send the header Content-Type: application/json on every POST, PUT and PATCH, including searches.
- Use page_size of 50 or less and follow next_cursor. The "fields" parameter is ignored, so responses are large.
- Judge controls by "status", not the "compliant" flag. Objective lists include sub-objectives, so take totals from objective_summary.
- Use framework-level scores and labels. The overall score_label on client health can be wrong.
- Older policy sections may be URL-encoded twice: decode them and use the highest version of each section.
- If a call returns 502 or fails to connect, wait a few seconds and retry once. If it still fails, tell me exactly which data is missing.

# Services that close gaps across clients

Hook: Find gaps that keep repeating across your portfolio and the service that would fix them all.

When to use it

Planning new services or a campaign.

What you get

Repeated gaps, the clients affected, and a service to offer.

Fill in the details

  • [MSP NAME]: Your company name (e.g. Northwind IT)

Status

Tested against the ControlMap API on October 16, 2026. Only asks for what the API supports.

GBAuthorGreg BrydonSolutions Engineer · ScalePad

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