We fix expensive
technical debt.
Elite engineering audits, architecture reviews, and emergency firefighting for Series A+ fintech and SaaS.No juniors. No agencies. Just results.
Limited to 3–5 engagements per quarter.
Used for technical due diligence, incident response, and pre-scale reviews.
Advising founders, CTOs, and investors at high-growth fintech and SaaS companies.
For Founders & CEOs
Before a $5–50M valuation decision.
You need an unbiased technical opinion before raising your next round. We provide clarity and risk assessment, ensuring your roadmap aligns with business goals.
For CTOs & VPs
When mistakes cost quarters, not sprints.
Your team is scaling, and technical debt is mounting. We act as your senior staff engineers to diagnose bottlenecks, refactor legacy code, and plan the next architecture.
For VCs & Investors
Before you wire seven figures.
Due diligence that goes deeper than a code scan. We assess technical risk, team capability, and architectural scalability before you sign the check.
Specific problems.
Surgical solutions.
We don't do “general consulting”. We solve seven specific types of expensive technical problems for growing companies.
Fintech Audit
Deep-dive assessment of your ledger, payment processing, and compliance infrastructure. We identify race conditions, double-spend risks, and scalability cliffs.
- Ledger Integrity Check
- Payment Flow Analysis
- Security & Compliance
MVP Rescue
Is your MVP built to scale or built to fail? We review your codebase quality, tech stack choices, and deployment pipeline before you scale users.
- Code Quality Review
- Tech Stack Assessment
- Scalability Report
Architecture Review
Cloud-native architecture validation. We check your AWS/GCP setup, database schema design, and microservices strategy for efficiency and cost.
- Infrastructure Analysis
- Database Schema Review
- Cost Optimization
Emergency Response
Production is down, and you don't know why. We drop in, diagnose the root cause, restore service, and document the post-mortem. Typical engagement starts within 48 hours.
- Incident Response
- Root Cause Analysis
- Stability Restoration
Process Engineering
Process Engineering for teams where delivery speed is a business constraint, not a tooling problem.
- CI/CD Optimization
- Workflow Standardization
- Team Structure
Technical Due Diligence
Independent technical due diligence for VC, PE, and strategic acquirers. Code, architecture, security, team risk, and cost-to-fix — in 5–10 business days.
- Risk Matrix & Red Flags
- Cost-to-Fix Estimate
- IC-Ready Summary
Fractional CTO
Senior technical leadership without a full-time hire. Architecture, technical strategy, engineering process, hiring support, and vendor oversight.
- Technical Strategy
- Architecture Ownership
- Hiring & Vendor Oversight
Need something else?
We often handle bespoke technical due diligence for M&A and investment rounds.
Contact UsHow we work
Transparent, structured, and rapid. We treat your infrastructure with the same rigor we treat our own.
See the full processDiagnostic Phase
We start with a deep-dive audit. We read the code, check the logs, interview the team, and map the infrastructure. This phase alone is often enough for founders and boards to make irreversible decisions.
Strategic Prioritization
Not everything needs to be rewritten. We identify the critical 20% of issues causing 80% of the pain—whether it's stability, performance, or velocity.
Execution & Handoff
We deliver a detailed remediation plan or step in to fix the fire ourselves. You get clear documentation, improved stability, and a team that knows how to keep it that way.
An expensive expert is cheaper than a cheap mistake.
Reduce Execution Risk
Most startups die from self-inflicted technical wounds. We spot the infection before it becomes fatal, saving you months of rework.
Unbiased Assessment
We don't want to rewrite your code for billable hours. We give you the truth about what needs to stay and what must go.
Seniority Speed
Junior engineers guess. Seniors know. We've seen these patterns before and know exactly how to resolve them immediately.
“The most valuable hour we spent this year. They identified a critical scalability flaw in our ledger architecture that would have cost us millions.”
FAQ
Before you ask.
The questions that come up in every first call.
An independent review of your system by senior engineers who have no stake in what gets built next. We examine the code, architecture, data model, infrastructure, and engineering process, then report what is actually true about the system: what will break, what it will cost to fix, and what can safely be left alone.
An agency that audits your system is quoting for the work it recommends. We do not take the build. That is the whole point: our finding that your architecture is fine costs us nothing, so you can trust the finding that it is not.
Scope drives the fee, and we quote a fixed price before we start — no hourly billing that grows with our curiosity. A focused single-domain review sits at the low end; a full rescue with hands-on stabilization at the high end. We tell you which one you need in the first call, including when the answer is neither.
Fintech is where the failure modes are most expensive, so it is where we are sharpest — ledgers, payment flows, reconciliation, compliance. But the work applies to any system where correctness and uptime carry real money: marketplaces, SaaS with usage billing, logistics, gaming.
Yes — a large share of our work is read by investors during due diligence. The report leads with a one-page executive summary written for non-engineers, and every finding is backed by evidence a technical reviewer on the other side can verify.
Both, but never in the same breath. The audit ends with a report and a prioritized roadmap your own team can execute. If you want hands-on remediation afterwards, we scope that separately — so the audit's conclusions are never shaped by what we would be paid to build.
Stop bleeding cash on
technical debt.
Every week you wait is another week of compounded interest on your bad code. Let's fix it.
Limited to 3–5 engagements per quarter. No juniors, no agencies.