Independent technical judgement for the decisions that are expensive to get wrong — what you already have, what it is worth, and who should lead it.
Advisory work, priced and scoped as such. Where the answer is "do not build this", we say so.
An independent review of an existing codebase — including products assembled with AI: what scales, what has to be rewritten, and what each option costs.
What sits under a working demo before an investment or acquisition: technical debt priced, growth capacity assessed, key-person risk named.
Senior judgement part-time — architecture, hiring the first engineers, and an honest read on delivery risk, without a full-time executive hire.
Reading proposals critically and choosing technology you can still hire for. The cheapest quote is usually the one that understood the least.
A fixed scope and a written result, not open-ended consulting.
Repository, infrastructure and your plans for the coming year. We assess against where the business is going, not against an abstract ideal.
Manual reading of the critical paths, backed by static analysis, dependency checks and measurements against the running system.
Findings ranked by business impact with remediation effort and cost — a document a board can act on, then a call to walk through it.
If your product runs on something else, ask — we will say honestly whether we can judge it.
Tell us the decision in front of you. If it needs a full-time hire rather than us, we will say that.