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Advisory & audits

An honest second opinion on your software

A clear read on your software, architecture or delivery: where you stand, what to tackle first, what to leave alone.

What we look at

Four angles on where you stand

Software problems rarely live in one place, so we read the code and everything around it.

  • Architecture and code

    We read the structure, the dependencies and the shortcuts, and tell you which ones will hold.

  • Security and data

    No security theater, just the measures that fit your data, your users and your real risk.

  • Delivery and process

    Why releases hurt, where work gets stuck, and what makes shipping predictable again.

  • The honest verdict

    Advice you can act on, ranked by what matters, including what not to change.

How it works

Three steps, no ceremony

  1. We listen first

    Your context, your worries, your goals, before anything gets measured.

  2. We dig in

    We read the code, the infrastructure and the real flow of work, not the documentation.

  3. You get it straight

    Findings ranked by what matters, in plain language, and yours to keep.

Where it leads

The advice stands on its own

Often the outcome is a short list of small fixes your own team handles in an afternoon, and there it ends.

When more is needed, the audit flows into our other work: rapid application development when something needs to be developed, or support & evolution when what exists needs a steady hand. Both start from the same findings.

Honest answers

What people ask before an audit

Will you just tell us to rewrite everything?
No. A full rewrite is usually the wrong answer: it costs years and throws away what the current code already learned. We tell you what to keep, and how to replace a legacy system without a big bang.
Do we get a report?
You get the findings in plain language, ranked by what matters, and they are yours to keep, written so any team can act on them. To size something yourself first, try the scope estimator.
Can you audit code you didn't write?
Yes, that is the usual case. Reading unfamiliar codebases is our daily work, and we judge the work, never the people.
Is this a sales pitch for your other services?
The advice stands alone and may well conclude that you need nothing from us. If follow-up work makes sense we say so, and the decision is yours.

The thinking behind our reviews is public. Our articles cover legacy systems, architecture and honest estimates.

Want an honest look at where you stand?

Tell us what worries you about your software. We'll tell you whether it should, and what we would look at first.

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