When this is useful
Some technical decisions are easy to change later. Others quietly lock you in for years. We’re the team you bring in when you need an honest second opinion on the second kind — and you’d rather pay for it now than discover the cost in eighteen months.
How we typically engage
- Architecture reviews. We read your design docs, talk to your engineers, and produce a written assessment with prioritized recommendations. Usually 2–4 weeks.
- Technical due diligence. Acquisitions, partnerships, large vendor commitments. We assess the engineering, not just the codebase — team, process, debt, key-person risk.
- Second opinions. A specific decision (build vs buy, framework choice, migration approach) where you want an outside perspective from people who don’t have an axe to grind.
- Fractional CTO. For founders who need senior engineering judgment but don’t yet need a full-time hire.
What we won’t do
- We won’t tell you what you want to hear. If your architecture is fine, we’ll say so and refund the difference. If it isn’t, we’ll explain why in language your CFO can read.
- We won’t recommend ourselves for the implementation work that follows from the review unless you explicitly ask. The advice and the build are separate engagements for a reason.
Output
Every engagement ends with a written deliverable — usually 10–30 pages — that your team can act on after we’ve left. Slide decks on request, but we’d rather you have the document.