In the flickering fluorescent glow of the "Hardware Graveyard"—a basement storage room overflowing with tangled VGA cables and beige towers—Leo tapped a frantic rhythm on his laptop.
As the sole IT manager for a rapidly scaling nonprofit, Leo was drowning. The organization had grown from ten employees to sixty in a year. Laptops were disappearing into the field, monitors were being swapped like trading cards, and the "official" tracking method—a shared spreadsheet named INVENTORY_FINAL_v4_USE_THIS.xlsx —was a graveyard of broken links and outdated data. Open Source Software Inventory Control
"This looks expensive," the director said, eyeing the detailed depreciation schedules and assigned asset histories. In the flickering fluorescent glow of the "Hardware