Technology & Architecture Diagnostic
The product works. But do you know what it is standing on?
You should not need to become a software architect to understand whether your product is stable, maintainable and ready for the next stage.
The Technology & Architecture Diagnostic gives you an independent view of the technical reality behind the business.
Launch price€790
Read-only repository access is mandatory.
At first, the question was whether the product could work.
Later, the questions became harder.
- Can we change it safely?
- Can another developer understand it?
- Can it support more users?
- Can we trust the estimates?
- Is the system genuinely complex, or has it simply become difficult to maintain?
- Are we dealing with normal early-stage imperfections or risks that could stop the business?
Development becomes slower.
Small changes have unexpected consequences.
Bugs return.
Nobody wants to touch certain parts of the system.
The original developer becomes difficult to replace.
Each new feature seems to take longer than the last.
This is not always proof that the product should be rebuilt.
Sometimes it needs focused refactoring.
Sometimes the development process is the problem.
Sometimes the architecture is appropriate and the business should stop treating every imperfection as a crisis.
The Diagnostic helps distinguish between those situations.
A functioning product can still leave the founder dangerously dependent.
- You may receive technical updates without being able to evaluate them.
- You may be told that a rebuild is necessary without understanding the business case.
- You may depend on one developer, one agency or one undocumented system.
- Access, knowledge and decision-making may sit outside the company.
This creates a different kind of technical risk.
Not only the risk that the system fails.
The risk that the founder cannot make an informed decision about it.
Control over the technology does not require understanding every line of code. It requires enough visibility to evaluate risk, priorities, providers and trade-offs.
Technical reality translated into business consequences.
Sebastian examines the product from the perspective of someone who has led technology, worked inside complex systems and seen the long-term consequences of short-term engineering decisions.
He looks beyond whether the application runs. He examines how understandable the system is, where its dependencies sit, how safely changes can be made and whether the technology supports the company’s actual stage and objectives.
The purpose is not to impose unnecessary enterprise standards on an early-stage product. It is to identify which technical weaknesses have a real business consequence.
- ArchitectureMedium
- Test coverageHigh
- Deployment & CI/CDHigh
- ObservabilityMedium
- Knowledge ownershipHigh
- Architecture
- Code quality
- Infrastructure
- Databases
- Integrations
- Visible security risks
- Performance
- Scalability
- Testing
- CI/CD
- Observability
- Technical debt
- Development operations
- Who understands the system?
- Who controls access?
- What documentation exists?
- What happens when the current developer or provider is no longer available?
- Which technical decisions are delaying commercial priorities?
- Which parts of the system create real risk, and which are simply imperfect?
Technical debt becomes a business problem when it controls what the company can do next.
A technical roadmap the founder can actually use.
You receive a Technology & Architecture Founder Scorecard and a clear explanation of the technical condition in business language. Not simply a list of engineering preferences or imperfections.
You learn which issues create immediate risk, which problems are slowing development, which compromises are reasonable for the current stage and which investments can wait.
The Diagnostic includes a written report, a 60–90 minute final presentation and an approximately 30-minute follow-up after 14 days.
The final 90-day technical roadmap shows the correct order of work. Because technical work completed in the wrong sequence can consume months without improving stability, delivery speed or the company’s ability to grow.
Stabilise
Address the issues creating immediate risk, confusion or loss of control.
Build
Create the commercial, product and technical foundations needed for progress.
Validate and Scale
Test the new direction, measure the results and expand only what proves useful.
Clear scope. Honest limitations.
The Technology & Architecture Diagnostic is not a formal penetration test, compliance certification or full line-by-line review of every part of the code.
It cannot guarantee that every defect or vulnerability will be identified.
Where specialist security, infrastructure, compliance or legal work is required, the report will state this directly.
You do not need to understand every line of code. You do need to understand the risk.
Launch pricing applies to the first three to five completed engagements. Payment is required in advance. Prices exclude VAT where applicable. Read-only repository access is mandatory.