Technical Advisory
Senior technical judgment, when you need it.
Architecture and code reviews, IT operations, and technical due diligence, from people who run engineering teams every day. Short engagements with written outputs, or ongoing advice alongside your team.
Written report and plan
Fixed-length assessments
Senior engineers and architects
Turns into a team if you need one
Three ways we help
Reviews, operations, diligence.
Architecture and code review
A second opinion before you scale.
An independent look at your codebase, architecture, infrastructure and delivery practices. For CTOs who want a straight answer before the next phase, and for founders who inherited a codebase. Output: a written report with prioritised risks and a plan.
IT operations and process
From firefighting to forward motion.
When most of the IT budget goes to keeping things running, we assess incidents, infrastructure and workflows, design clear processes and ownership, and help you roll out changes in phases. Output: an operations assessment and a prioritised fix list.
Technical due diligence and exit readiness
Exit-ready is built, not found.
Buyers and investors look at architecture, security, documentation, technical debt and key-person risk. We assess where you stand, help you close the gaps, and sit with you in technical diligence calls. Output: a readiness report and a milestone plan.
Due diligence
What buyers and investors look at.
When a buyer or an investor shows interest, the clock starts. Suddenly you need clean documentation, clear IP ownership, recovery plans and answers to questions you have never considered. The companies that sail through diligence are the ones that started early.
Architecture, scalability and technical debt
Security practices and data protection
Documentation: architecture, deployment, recovery, APIs, dependencies
Technical currency: versions, patches, known vulnerabilities
Key-person dependencies and team strength
IP ownership, licences and access control
Operations
Why most IT budgets go to maintaining, not building.
Operational debt compounds. Every quick fix, every unused feature and every workaround adds weight. Four ways it shows up:
The incident multiplier.
Rarely used features still break, still page someone, and still need patching. Low usage does not mean low maintenance.
The architecture tax.
Systems built on guessed requirements become complex, hard to debug and expensive to change.
The infrastructure bill.
Provisioned for optimistic projections, not real demand. You pay for scale you never needed.
The staffing trap.
Headcount grows to maintain complexity, not to serve users. The bill arrives years after the decision.
How we work
Assess, plan, execute, review.
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Assess
We look at the code, systems, processes and people, and at what it all costs you today.
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Plan
A written report: prioritised risks, quick wins, and a milestone plan you can act on.
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Execute
We implement the changes with your team, or with engineers from us, in phases.
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Review
We measure the result and check readiness before the next phase, the next round or the buyer arrives.
Engagement shapes
Start with what you need.
Assessment
Two to four weeks. A deep look at one area, ending in a written report and a prioritised plan. Fixed length, estimate up front.
Project
We implement the plan: documentation, process redesign, technical fixes, security work. With your team or with engineers from us.
Ongoing advisory
A senior architect or engineering lead a few days a month. Someone at the table for technical decisions, without the headcount.
From advice to a team.
Many reviews end with the same conclusion: the plan is clear, and you need more hands to execute it. When that happens, the people who did the review can become your team, so nothing is lost between the report and the work.
Questions, answered.
Two to four weeks. We read the code, talk to the team, and look at infrastructure, security and how work gets delivered. You get a written report with prioritised risks and a plan. You decide what to do with it, with us or without us.
Buyers and investors examine code quality, architecture decisions, security practices, scalability, technical debt and the team. They want to know what they are buying and what it will cost to maintain. We help you prepare for those questions, and we can sit in the diligence calls with you.
Ideally 12 to 24 months before. Readiness is not a checklist you complete in a month. It means reducing technical debt, documenting systems and removing key-person dependencies. Starting early gives you leverage.
Architecture documentation, deployment procedures, security policies, disaster recovery plans, API documentation and dependency inventories. They also look at incident history and how issues get resolved.
Yes, with a focus on the critical gaps. Some issues cannot be fixed quickly, so the earlier you engage, the stronger your position. We work alongside your M&A advisers and lawyers; we do not run the deal.
Both. We recommend off-the-shelf tools when they fit and build custom solutions when your processes are unique. Often the answer is standard tools connected by custom integrations.
Quick wins can land in four to eight weeks. Reworking core processes typically takes three to six months. We phase the work so you see value early.
Assessments and reviews are fixed-length engagements with an estimate up front. Ongoing advisory and implementation work is billed per engineering hour, invoiced monthly. We give you the estimate after the discovery call.
Start with an assessment.
Tell us what you need a straight answer on. In 30 minutes we'll scope the assessment and give you an estimate.
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