Paid assessment
Modernise your platform without breaking production.
A full read of your architecture, security posture, cloud readiness and delivery process, ending in a phased roadmap with a rollback strategy for every step. For teams planning a migration or modernisation programme, not just wanting a second opinion.
Who this is for
Platforms that have been running five years or more
Technical debt has accumulated, dependencies are behind, and the architecture is carrying decisions nobody would make again today.
Security and compliance pressure
SOC 2, HIPAA or GDPR is now a requirement, and the current architecture makes certification harder than it should be.
Cloud migration you keep postponing
You need to move to AWS or DigitalOcean, or off legacy hosting entirely, but the cost and the risk are both unclear enough to stall the decision.
Scaling and operational risk
Growth is producing performance problems, reliability incidents, or a delivery process that has become the bottleneck.
The problem
Platforms become fragile over time. What started as a clean architecture accumulates debt: dependencies nobody has upgraded, integrations that grew tightly coupled, infrastructure decisions that made sense at a tenth of the current load.
Eventually routine changes start to feel risky. Deployments slow down. A security patch breaks something three layers away. Migration gets postponed each quarter because nobody can say how much risk is actually in it.
Most modernisation fails from lack of clarity, not lack of talent. Teams do not have a complete map of their dependencies, their real risk exposure, or a migration path they can reverse if it goes wrong.
The audit exists to produce that map. It is a paid engagement because reading a live platform properly takes real time, and because you should own the findings whether or not we do the work that follows.
What you get
Architecture and legacy risk assessment
The full current state: services, data stores, dependency mapping, technical debt hotspots, and how the system fails when it fails.
Security and compliance review
Security controls as they actually are, the gaps between that and the certification you need, and what regulatory exposure you are carrying now.
Cloud readiness evaluation
Migration strategy costed against AWS or DigitalOcean, not a single vendor by default. Infrastructure design, cost modelling, and the migration path we would take.
DevOps and delivery risk analysis
Deployment practice, CI/CD maturity, test coverage where it matters, and whether you would know a bad release had happened before a customer told you.
Integration and ecosystem review
Third-party integrations, API dependencies, and the upstream and downstream coupling that decides how much of the platform you can change independently.
Prioritised phased roadmap
Risk-ranked phases with effort estimates and a rollback strategy for each one. Built so you can stop after any phase and still be better off.
60-minute findings walkthrough
We present the findings to whoever needs to hear them, answer questions, and say plainly what we would do first if it were ours.
Work we have actually shipped
Migration and modernisation on platforms that were already carrying users and revenue. Phased, with production staying up throughout.
FreeTaxProtest
Property tax protest infrastructure for 90,000+ homeowners
Pricing & Promotions Platform
B2B pricing and promotions platform for a European foodservice buying group
Enterprise messaging platform, client withheld under NDA
Commercial messaging platform integration for an enterprise client
Read case studyAudit or review?
If you mainly want an expert read on your architecture and codebase, start with the Fixed-Price Architecture Review. If you are planning a migration or modernisation programme, the audit covers the wider ground: everything in the review, plus cloud readiness, security and compliance posture, DevOps maturity, and integration mapping.
See the Fixed-Price Architecture ReviewGet clarity before you change anything.
Stop guessing at the risk. Get a complete picture of where your platform stands and a roadmap you can budget against.