# What is the Discovery Tax in IT transformations?
> Canonical: https://decisionpen.com/blog/what-is-the-discovery-tax-in-it-transformations
## Summary
Repeated cost of reconstructing as-is landscape for every programme (documentation archaeology) instead of inheriting a living curated map.
## How DecisionPen solves this
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## When not
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## Related
- https://decisionpen.com/blog/what-is-the-context-tax-in-enterprise-it — twin concept for the agentic era