Find out what breaks first, before it does
A fixed-scope, fixed-price audit of a system you already run, delivered as a written report you own, with findings ranked by what they will actually cost you.
Talk to an engineerGood reasons to ask for one
- You inherited a system and need to know what you inherited.
- You are about to raise, and technical due diligence is coming.
- You are considering a rewrite and want an outside read before committing a year to it.
- Delivery keeps slowing down and the cause is contested inside the team.
- Something broke badly and you suspect it was a symptom rather than the problem.
- You want a second opinion on a decision the team disagrees about.
What the review covers
Architecture and boundaries
How the system is divided, where the coupling is, and which seams will resist the next year of change.
Reliability and failure modes
What happens when a dependency is slow, a queue backs up or a deploy goes wrong, and what is missing to detect it.
Data and consistency
Schema and query patterns, indexing, transaction boundaries, and where duplicates or lost updates can occur.
Infrastructure and cost
How it is deployed, what it costs, what is over-provisioned, and how much of it could be recreated if it disappeared.
Security posture
Authentication and authorisation, secret handling, permission scope and dependency exposure. This is a review, not a penetration test.
Delivery and operations
How code reaches production, what testing exists, and how much of the process depends on specific individuals.
How it runs
Week one: read and ask
Read-only access to the repository, infrastructure and dashboards. Interviews with the engineers who carry the system, because the useful information is rarely written down.
Week two: verify and write
Test the assumptions that matter, confirm the findings that would be expensive to get wrong, and write the report.
The handover
A walkthrough of the findings with your team, and the raw notes as well as the report. You keep everything.
After
You are free to act on it with your own team, with someone else, or with us. The review is deliberately self-contained and is not a sales funnel.
What you get
- A written report of prioritised findings, each with impact, effort and a recommendation
- A ranked list of what will break first and what it would cost you
- Quick wins separated from structural work, so something can start immediately
- Architecture diagrams of what actually exists, which teams frequently lack
- A walkthrough session with your engineers, and the raw notes
Questions we get asked
What does it cost and how long does it take?
Two weeks and a fixed price for a typical system, agreed before we start once we know the scope. If your system is unusually large or unusually small we say so and adjust the scope, rather than stretching the work to fill the time.
What access do you need?
Read access to the repository, infrastructure and monitoring, plus a few hours of your engineers' time. We do not need production write access, and we will not ask for it.
Is this just a sales pitch for a bigger project?
No, and it is structured so it cannot be. It is fixed price, self-contained, and the report is yours. Plenty of clients act on it with their own team, which is a good outcome. A review that only concludes "hire us" is worthless to everyone.
What if you find nothing serious?
Then you get a written second opinion confirming the system is in reasonable shape, which is worth having before a funding round or a large investment decision. It happens, and we say so plainly.
Start a conversation
Tell us what you are building, or what is currently breaking. You will get a straight answer from an engineer, not a sales script.