A written audit report.
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.
Technical Audit & Due Diligence. A written verdict you can act on.
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
Three artifacts.
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.
A prioritized register.
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.
A live debrief session.
A working session with your team: the “wait, but what about…” conversation, with the senior engineer who wrote the report.
When an audit is the right call
- You inherited a codebase from a prior agency, a freelancer, an AI build, or an early co-founder, and you can’t tell what’s load-bearing.
- You’re hitting a wall on scaling, performance, security, or hiring, and you want a senior opinion before you commit to a fix.
- You’re evaluating build / buy / migrate, and you need a technical opinion you can’t get from a vendor pitching you the build.
- You’re about to start, and you want a senior eye on the architecture before the first line of production code goes in.
- You suspect AI tech debt (vibe-coded shortcuts, hallucinated APIs, type-system bypasses) and you want someone to actually check the structure.
- You’re an investor about to wire into a build you haven’t seen inside, and you want technical due diligence from a team that ships for a living.
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
Built your MVP with AI, and now you're stuck?
You built with Lovable, Bolt, v0 or Replit, or used Cursor to write much of the code. The demo works, but each change seems to break something else. Before you pay someone to rebuild it, you need to know how much of what you've built can stay.
We've seen AI-generated tests that pass without checking anything, and duplicated business logic where a fix in one place leaves the same bug elsewhere. These need a closer read because a working demo can hide both. We also check whether access controls protect the data when someone bypasses the interface, since a successful login alone doesn't prove your customers' records are private.
The audit helps you decide what you can keep building on, what needs repair, and whether replacing a part would cost less than maintaining it.
Four phases.
Step 01
Scoping call.
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
Audit window.
Code review, stakeholder interviews, infrastructure walkthrough. Fixed scope at a fixed price, settled before the work starts.
Step 03
Written report.
Concrete and prioritized. You get it before the debrief, with time to read it cold.
Step 04
Live debrief.
We answer the question the report can’t answer alone: “now what?”
How a finding gets ranked.
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.
Bleeding now
Active exposure, data loss, or silent incorrectness in production today.
What do I stop doing?
Blocks the next six months
Will stop you scaling, hiring, shipping, or passing technical diligence.
What blocks the raise?
Compounding
Real, survivable, and more expensive every month it's left alone.
What do I schedule?
Noted, leave it
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.
Sometimes the answer is “don’t build that yet.”
And we’ll say it.
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. If you are still deciding what kind of technical partner you want, the guide to the six options is the longer read, and the audit is the cheaper way to test us than a retainer.
Questions about the audit
How much of our codebase will you review?
We agree the areas to examine on the free scoping call. The depth of review stays the same. What varies is how much of the system we cover. A large codebase gets a narrower agreed scope at full depth, rather than the whole thing skimmed. We write the scope and exclusions into the report, so you know which areas we haven't examined.
What do you need from us to deliver in seven business days?
We need access to the agreed codebase and infrastructure, and to know who to talk to before day one. Stakeholder interviews run alongside the code review. If those conversations can't be scheduled early, the seven-business-day window won't hold. We'll discuss availability on the scoping call before you commit.
Are fixes or penetration testing included?
No. We review security within the agreed scope, but penetration testing and formal security certification are outside it. We don't change your code during the audit. Any fixes or implementation are agreed separately.
Would a cheaper automated scan be enough?
It may be enough if you only need a dependency or configuration check. When comparing quotes, ask whether someone will read your application's access controls and business logic, and explain which findings affect your next decision. We use automated checks too, then judge the findings against what you're building and the runway you have left.
Can you provide a costed remediation plan?
Yes, if you want one. We produce it separately after the debrief, once we know how quickly your team can do the work. Keeping it separate lets the audit report explain what needs attention without turning each finding into a proposal to hire us.
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