Getting started (Hosted)

From checkout to seeing your first results takes about fifteen minutes. You'll need a Microsoft Entra administrator (Global or Application Administrator) for one step.

1 · Subscribe

Complete checkout from the pricing page (payments are handled by Polar, our merchant of record). You land on the setup wizard immediately, and the welcome email contains the same private setup link in case you need to come back later.

2 · Name your portal

Pick your permanent address — your-name.maester.cloud — and the Azure region your data lives in (United States, Europe, or Australia). Your reports and history are stored only in that region.

3 · Connect Microsoft Entra

Your portal signs users in with an app registered in your tenant. The wizard offers two paths:

Express setup — sign in once as an admin to the Maester Cloud Setup helper and create the app in one click, with live progress for each step; choose "Review each step" to approve every Microsoft Graph call before it runs. Either way the calls run in your browser (the admin token never reaches our servers), and the final step removes the helper from your tenant entirely — Maester Cloud keeps no access. Great for dev and demo tenants.
Manual setup — create the app yourself via the Entra portal, Graph Explorer, or one PowerShell script. Recommended for production tenants: granting any third-party app application-management rights, even for a session, is a privilege your production tenant shouldn't hand out.

Either way the result is identical: a single-page application with no client secret, the openid and User.ReadBasic.All delegated permissions, and user assignment required — so only people you explicitly assign can ever sign in. The wizard ends with the directory (tenant) ID and application (client) ID filled in.

Add teammates later under Entra admin center → Enterprise applications → Maester Cloud Portal → Users and groups.

4 · Watch it build

Provisioning your dedicated environment takes a few minutes; the wizard shows each step live (resource group, portal, API, storage, DNS, certificate, smoke check). You can close the page and return from the email link — it resumes where it left off.

5 · Sign in and send your first report

Open https://your-name.maester.cloud, sign in with your work account, and follow the in-portal checklist to send your first report. The moment it arrives, the Overview lights up with real numbers; the second report activates drift.