TECHNICAL ASSESSMENT & CODE REVIEW

Know what you’re working with before you pour more fuel on it.

In 1–2 weeks, you’ll have a hands-on codebase, infrastructure, and delivery process audit — with a prioritized playbook your team can act on immediately.

0–2 wk
Timeline
$0–12.5K
Investment
0–4
Interviews
Scorecard + Playbook
You'll Receive

WHAT THIS ENGAGEMENT IS

A hands-on audit — not a checklist.

We get hands-on with your codebase, infrastructure, and delivery process. Not a checklist review — this is done by engineers who ship production code, so the findings are grounded in real-world experience and prioritized by actual business impact.

You’ll get a clear picture of where the risks are, what’s causing friction for your dev team, and a prioritized playbook to address the debt that’s actually slowing you down. The output is practical enough to drop straight into your next sprint planning session.

Perfect for: Teams scaling on inherited code, leaders evaluating systems after M&A, organizations planning modernization, and anyone who needs an honest technical assessment before making a big bet.

How We Work

How It Works

01

Kickoff & Access

Day 1

We align on scope, get read-only access to repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. Your lead engineer walks us through the architecture — how things are structured, what’s well-understood, and where the dragons live.

Scope alignment and access checklist
60–90 min architecture walkthrough
Read-only repository and cloud access
02

Code & Architecture Review

Days 2–5

We review the codebase for code quality, readability, complexity, test coverage, dependency health, security flags, hotspots, and anti-patterns. We’re reading the code the way an experienced engineer would if they were evaluating whether to build on top of it.

Code quality and complexity analysis
Security and dependency audit
Architecture pattern review
03

Infrastructure & Process Audit

Days 6–8

We evaluate your deployment pipeline, monitoring and alerting, SLOs, cloud cost efficiency, and team delivery practices. Looking at resilience, scalability, and whether you’re paying for what you actually use.

CI/CD and deployment pipeline review
Cloud cost and infrastructure audit
Monitoring, SLOs, and incident readiness
04

Synthesis & Playback

Days 9–10

We compile everything into scorecards and a 90-day playbook, then walk your team through it. Every finding is prioritized by impact and risk, with effort estimates. You’ll get heat maps, an executive summary, and a concrete plan to act on.

Codebase and infrastructure scorecards
90-day technical playbook
Executive presentation and Q&A

What You Walk Away With

01
QUALITY

Codebase Scorecard

Ratings across readability, complexity, test coverage, dependency health, and security — with specific examples from your actual code. Use it for communicating technical health to stakeholders and setting improvement goals.

02
INFRA

Infrastructure & DevOps Audit

Assessment of cloud costs, resilience posture, deployment pipeline maturity, and monitoring gaps. Includes recommendations with estimated savings or risk reduction. Use it for infrastructure budgeting and DevOps sprint planning.

03
DEBT

Tech Debt Backlog

A prioritized list of fixes ranked by business impact and implementation risk. Each item includes effort estimates and dependencies. Drop it into your backlog and start working through it.

04
PLAYBOOK

90-Day Technical Playbook

A sequenced plan that turns findings into action — what to fix first, what can wait, and what to monitor. Includes owners and checkpoints for execution planning.

INVESTMENT

Scoped to your situation, not a one-size-fits-all package.

Technical assessments range from $7,500 to $12,500 depending on what we find and how deep we need to go. We scope the engagement during kickoff — you never pay for depth you don’t need.

What moves the investment:

  • Number of codebases or services under review
  • Infrastructure complexity (straightforward cloud vs. multi-region)
  • Security posture requirements (light audit vs. detailed review)
  • Stakeholder deliverables (engineering playbook vs. executive readout)

Most engagements land between $8K and $10K. We’ll confirm scope and investment in a brief engagement letter before any work begins — no surprises.

ALWAYS INCLUDED

The baseline

  • Codebase quality review
  • CI/CD & DevOps evaluation
  • Infrastructure & cost audit
  • Prioritized tech debt backlog
  • 90-day technical playbook
  • Findings presentation

Every engagement. Every time.

LOGISTICS

What we need from you

  • Read-only access to code repositories
  • CI/CD pipeline and cloud console access
  • A 60–90 minute architecture walkthrough with your lead engineer
  • Availability for occasional questions during the review
  • A point person for scheduling the final presentation

OUTCOMES

What changes when you have clarity

  1. Technical debt gets prioritized by business impact, not gut feel.
  2. Infrastructure spending gets scrutinized — you stop paying for what you don’t use.
  3. Engineering velocity improves because the friction points are documented and sequenced.
  4. Hiring and vendor decisions are backed by an honest assessment of current state.
  5. Stakeholders and the board hear a credible, data-backed technology narrative.
WRONG FIT

This might not be for you if...

You’re greenfield with no existing code to review. You need a penetration test or compliance-specific audit (SOC 2, HIPAA). You already know what’s wrong and need people to fix it.

Better Starting Points

For compliance audits, you need a specialized security firm. For fixes, go straight to Development + Delivery. For architecture redesign, Technical Roadmap Strategy is the better starting point.

RIGHT FIT

This is exactly right if...

You’re scaling on code you inherited and need an honest evaluation. You’re planning a major feature or scale event and want to know what’s lurking. You’re getting conflicting signals about tech debt after M&A. You’re planning modernization and need to understand the current state first.

What Happens Next

We send over a brief engagement letter and schedule your kickoff within the week. Most assessments start within 5–7 business days.

LOGISTICS

Common Questions

01Will this slow my team down?

No. About 3–4 hours of your team’s time total: a walkthrough, availability for questions, and the final presentation.

The heaviest lift is the initial 60–90 minute architecture walkthrough. After that, we work independently with occasional questions via Slack or email. Your team keeps shipping — we stay out of the way.

02Do you fix issues during the assessment?

No. This is a review engagement — we identify and prioritize, we don’t remediate. The playbook tells you exactly what to do and in what order.

If we discover a critical security vulnerability, we’ll flag it immediately — we don’t wait for the final presentation. But the engagement itself is scoped to assessment and planning, not implementation. If you need help executing the playbook, that’s a separate Development + Delivery conversation.

03Can you evaluate cost efficiency?

Yes. Cloud infrastructure cost analysis is part of every assessment. We look at what you’re paying for, what you’re actually using, and where there’s waste.

We review your cloud spending against actual utilization, identify over-provisioned resources, and flag services where a different architecture or pricing model could reduce costs. Most clients find at least one area where they’re paying significantly more than they need to.

04Is this language or cloud specific?

No. We assess codebases across all major languages, frameworks, and cloud providers. The principles of code quality and infrastructure health are universal.

Our team has deep experience across JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java, Go, Ruby, .NET, and more. Cloud-side, we work with AWS, GCP, Azure, and hybrid setups. The assessment framework adapts to your stack — we don’t force a one-size-fits-all rubric.

WHAT'S NEXT

Where This Leads

Findings are manageable?

Your Team Takes It From Here

Your team takes the playbook and executes. We’re available for questions, but you don’t need another engagement.

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