Know What You Actually Own — before you commit another dollar
A fixed-price audit of your code, infrastructure, and delivery process, from $5K, set by complexity and platform count. A founder-level engineer reads the system, not a junior with a checklist; you get a written report, a prioritized fix sequence, and a readout call.
What You Get
Code, infrastructure, tooling, and the delivery process, assessed against the same SDLC framework we build to, plus interviews with the people who run it.
An ordered fix list, what first, what next, what can wait, not a diagnosis you’re left to triage yourself.
Delivery metrics for an engineering leader, dollars and time for an owner, written to survive being forwarded to an investor or deal partner.
We walk you through it, answer the hard questions, and you decide what happens next, if anything.
Every Finding Is a Measured Claim
One discipline on every page: no finding without the artifact that proves it, no recommendation without what it costs to act on. If something’s fine, the report says so. You’re buying the truth, not a sales document for the work behind it.
- 01 Finding
- 02 Evidence
- 03 Recommendation
- 04 Cost to act
- Code quality and maintainability
- Architecture and scalability
- Security posture in the code and infrastructure
- Test coverage and the regression safety net
- The delivery process itself, how work moves from idea to production
- Where the knowledge lives, including what leaves the building if one person does
When the Audit Earns Its Price
A raise or growth milestone the codebase might not survive, diligence on the calendar, or a product that hit traction fast, sometimes AI-built, and is buckling. The audit tells you how bad it is and what the fix costs, before you bet runway on a guess.
Before close: the same audit against the deal clock, for the $1–20M deals institutional DD firms priced at $25–40K+ don’t serve. After close: “what did I actually buy,” in writing. Either way it doubles as your first-hundred-days plan, and we’re here after the deal team leaves.
When Not to Hire Us for This
If the job is to confirm a decision already made, the report will disappoint someone. We write down what we find.
No code, no tooling, no conversations with the team, nothing to audit. (Pre-acquisition, access is scoped on the discovery call.)
Security is covered at the general level; a dedicated penetration test or compliance audit is a different product, and we’ll say so.
What It Costs
Fixed because a diagnosis shouldn’t be a negotiation: the price is set before you commit, and it stands alone, never credited toward follow-on work, because a diagnosis discounted by the cure stops being a diagnosis.
Questions Buyers Actually Ask
How much does a code audit cost?
It starts at $5K, fixed, scaling with complexity and platform count. The exact number is confirmed on the discovery call and includes the analysis, the report, and the readout, no “contact us for pricing.”
What counts as a platform?
Roughly each distinct codebase we read, an iOS app, a web app, a backend each count as one. It’s part of what sets the price, confirmed on the call.
What exactly do you look at?
The code, infrastructure, tooling, and delivery process, plus interviews with the team. One combined audit, not separate SKUs. A “code quality” issue is usually a process issue in disguise.
Do I get the fee back if I hire you for the follow-on?
No, it stands alone, never credited toward later work. If it only paid for itself when you bought the fix from us, you’d be right to question every finding.
Can you run the audit before we close an acquisition?
Yes, the same audit, run pre-close against the deal clock, for the $1–20M deals institutional due diligence doesn’t serve. The report doubles as your post-close fix sequence.
What if the report says everything is mostly fine?
Then you’ve bought certainty, which is what was for sale. We don’t inflate findings to justify the invoice. The report is the product.
The Standard, and the Record
The audit is an assessment pass over the same SDLC standard everything else is built to.
Read the methodology →Consumer platform, sensitive data
fixed-price rebuildInvestor-promised B2B milestone blocked by the codebase
- fixed-price rebuild 7 months
- of the eventual engagement spend ~1%
TripHero
rebuild deliveryGoal of growing from 6 to 30 hotels in two quarters
- production platform, fixed budget <12 weeks
- certification passed SOC 2
- staff time saved 2+ hrs/day
Scope It on a Discovery Call. Or hear “not a fit,” out loud.
A short discovery call scopes the audit: which platforms, what access we’d need, whether it’s worth it for you. Nothing is diagnosed on the call. That’s what the audit is for. If it isn’t worth your money, that’s what we’ll say.
Notes on Building High-Quality Software
A short founder’s note and a digest of what we’ve published, sent only when there’s something worth the inbox.