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Service 06 · Tech Stack Audits

A clear-eyed read on your stack, before you spend another dollar on it.

Architecture review, dependency analysis, and a prioritized path to scale — delivered as a written brief your team can act on with or without us, inside two weeks. Available on-site or remote for teams anywhere in Nepal.

What the practice covers

Six capabilities, one accountable team

01

Architecture review

Service boundaries, data flow, and coupling mapped against your actual traffic patterns.

02

Dependency & security audit

Outdated packages, unpatched CVEs, and license risk flagged and prioritized.

03

Performance profiling

Real bottlenecks identified under load, not guessed at from a dashboard.

04

Scalability path

A concrete, sequenced plan for the next 10x of traffic or data volume.

05

Cost analysis

Cloud spend mapped to what's actually driving it, with right-sizing recommendations.

06

Team & process review

Delivery bottlenecks in the engineering process, not just the codebase, surfaced honestly.

How an engagement runs

Four phases, each with a named deliverable

Days 1–3

Intake

Access, documentation, and stakeholder interviews scoped to the real questions.

Days 4–8

Analyze

Architecture, dependencies, and performance profiled against production data.

Days 9–10

Prioritize

Findings ranked by risk and effort into a sequenced action plan.

Day 10+

Deliver

A written brief presented to your team, with an optional Q&A session.

audit-summary.md
# audit summary · platform-xcritical_findings = 4high_findings     = 11est_remediation   = 6 weekstop_risk = "unpatched auth dependency"recommendation = "patch before next release"
Audit complete — brief delivered
Why written, not a slide deck

A brief your team can act on without us

  • No build incentive — the audit is priced flat, so the findings aren't shaped by upsell.
  • Ranked by risk and effort — you know what to fix first and what can wait.
  • Actionable without us — every finding comes with enough detail for any team to execute.
The record

Built into every audit

6
Capabilities covered in every audit
10 days
Turnaround, intake to written brief
100%
Audits delivered as a written brief
0
Build-work incentive in audit pricing
Selected work

Audit engagements on the record

2025

Series B fintech — pre-funding technical due diligence

Architecture and security review completed in 8 days ahead of a board deadline.

Common questions

Questions we get about tech stack audits

How long does an audit take?

Ten days from intake to delivered brief. Access and stakeholder interviews happen in the first three days, analysis over the next five, and findings are prioritized and written up in the final two.

Is the audit unbiased if you also build software?

The audit is priced flat, independent of any build work that might follow — findings aren't shaped to justify an upsell, and the brief is written to be actionable by any team, including yours alone.

What format is the deliverable?

A written brief, not a slide deck — findings ranked by risk and effort, with a sequenced action plan. An optional Q&A session with your team is included after delivery.

What does the audit actually cover?

Architecture and coupling, dependency and security risk, performance under real load, a scalability path for the next order of magnitude of traffic, cloud cost drivers, and engineering process bottlenecks.

Do we have to act on every finding?

No — findings are ranked so you know what's genuinely urgent versus what can wait. The brief gives you the sequencing decision; you choose which risks to accept.

Get a written answer, not a guess

Two weeks, one fixed price, a brief you can act on immediately.

Book the audit