A senior look at what you’ve already built, or what you’re about to. For founders before they commit, and for investors before they wire. Often the on-ramp to a partnership engagement.
€4,900 · Report in 7 business days · Fixed scope
All three are written down, which matters more than it sounds. The value of an audit is that it still exists in six months, when whoever has to act on it isn’t in the room.
Artifact 01
What’s load-bearing, what’s broken, what’s fine, what’s about to break. If AI wrote a chunk of the codebase, the report says where that matters. Written so you can act on it without asking an engineer what it means.
Artifact 02
Issues and opportunities, ranked. What to fix first, what to leave, what’s actually fine. The thing you’d hand to whoever does the work, or to the investor asking for proof.
Artifact 03
A working session with your team: the “wait, but what about…” conversation, with the senior engineer who wrote the report.
If you want a costed remediation plan, that’s separate work, produced after the debrief once we know your team’s actual velocity. We keep it separate deliberately: a report that prices its own remediation is really a sales proposal.
Not every codebase needs one. Does any of this sound like where you actually are?
Systellar Space started here. Two space-domain founders with an architecture question, a paid exploration to answer it, and only then a build. Read the engagement
Step 01
We figure out whether an audit is the right shape, and what it should actually cover. If a scoping call is enough on its own, we’ll tell you. And we won’t bill for it.
Step 02
Code review, stakeholder interviews, infrastructure walkthrough. Fixed scope at a fixed price, settled before the work starts.
Step 03
Concrete and prioritized. You get it before the debrief, with time to read it cold.
Step 04
We answer the question the report can’t answer alone: “now what?”
How deep we go never varies. That’s what the fee buys, and it’s the only thing that makes one report comparable to another. What varies is the surface we point it at. A large codebase gets a narrower agreed scope at full depth, rather than the whole thing skimmed. We settle that with you before the work starts and write it into the report, so an area we didn’t examine is never a surprise at the end.
One thing the fixed window asks of you: the stakeholder interviews run alongside the code review rather than after it, so we need to know who to talk to before day one. If those conversations can’t be scheduled early, seven days doesn’t hold, and we would rather say so on the scoping call than discover it in week two.
Generic tooling grades everything Critical, High, Medium or Low. Those labels tell you how alarmed a scanner is. They say nothing about when the thing will actually hurt you, which is the only part you can plan around. We use four bands instead, and each one answers a question you’re already asking.
Active exposure, data loss, or silent incorrectness in production today.
What do I stop doing?
Will stop you scaling, hiring, shipping, or passing technical diligence.
What blocks the raise?
Real, survivable, and more expensive every month it's left alone.
What do I schedule?
Found, judged, and deliberately not worth touching.
What can I stop worrying about?
That last band is the one founders don’t expect, and it’s the one we’d defend hardest. Any scanner you can run for free will flag a hundred things and imply every one of them is urgent. Writing down what we checked and then decided to leave alone costs us nothing, and it’s the clearest evidence you have that a person read your code rather than a tool.
We charge for the audit, not for the partnership engagement that may or may not follow. So when the right verdict is “don’t build,” “rebuild,” or “migrate to something cheaper than what we’d sell you,” we’ll say it.
If you do go on, the €4,900 comes off your first month of partnership. The credit doesn’t buy a friendlier verdict: the report is written and handed over before there is a partnership to protect.
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