Platform Gravity Analyzer
Measure how tightly your organization is bound to a specific platform or vendor. Understand the forces creating lock-in and identify strategies to maintain strategic flexibility.
Assessment Dimensions
Rate each dimension on a 1–10 scale based on your organization
How deeply are your systems integrated with this platform's APIs? Consider the number of endpoints consumed, custom extensions built, and how much business logic depends on platform-specific behaviors.
How much of your critical data lives within this platform? Consider volume, uniqueness, historical depth, and whether the data is easily exportable in usable formats.
How much value do you derive from the platform's network or ecosystem? Rate higher if your business model depends on the platform's user base, marketplace, or partner network.
How expensive would it be to migrate away — in money, time, and disruption? Include data migration, retraining, reintegration, and the productivity dip during transition.
Assessment Dimensions (cont.)
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How reliant are you on the platform's broader ecosystem — plugins, extensions, third-party integrations, and community tooling that only work within this platform?
How concentrated are your team's skills around this specific platform? Rate higher if most of your engineering or operations expertise is platform-specific and not transferable.
How restrictive are your contractual commitments? Consider multi-year terms, volume commitments, early termination penalties, and data portability clauses (or lack thereof).