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The Founder’s Tech Audit Checklist.
47 things investors and acquirers will check inside your stack before your next round. Built from production audits across SaaS, fintech, marketplaces, and consumer.
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20-page PDF · Free
Track record
- 180+
- Products shipped
- 75+
- Funded clients
- 2019
- Founded
Since 2019, across three continents
Pre-seed through Series B
UK-registered engineering firm
47 questions your next investor will ask about your stack
Table of contents
What’s inside the 20-page field guide
Seven sections, 47 items. Tick what you have. Circle what you don’t. The unticked items are your roadmap.
- 01
Architecture Foundations
The codebase your future Series A will inherit. Modular monolith vs microservices, environments, deploy frequency, backups.
7 items - 02
Auth & Trust
The architecture of your security posture. Managed auth providers, session strategy, MFA, audit logs, secrets handling.
6 items - 03
Data & Billing
The edge cases where money and trust break. Stripe setup, webhook idempotency, refunds, dunning, dispute trails.
7 items - 04
Data Quality
Whether you can trust the numbers your dashboards show. Source-of-truth boundaries, event schemas, backfill discipline.
6 items - 05
Performance & Scale
The layer where products fail invisibly. Search performance, query budgets, caching, cost visibility, load testing.
7 items - 06
Operational Tooling
Whether your team can operate the platform without engineering. Admin console, refunds without engineering, on-call playbooks.
7 items - 07
Compliance Posture
The section that most often surfaces unwelcome surprises at Series A. GDPR, sector regimes, SOC 2, incident response, diligence-readiness.
7 items
Built from production audits
Every item started as a finding in a real codebase
An unindexed query behind a search bar. A webhook with no idempotency key. A secrets file sitting in the repo. The checklist gives you the questions we ask; the answers are already in your stack.
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Built for the seed-to-Series-A stretch
01
Newly funded founders
You closed a seed or Series A in the last 90 days and you’re deciding whether to hire engineers in-house, engage an agency, or push the founder MVP further.
02
Founders preparing for Series A
Your investors will run a tech audit at the next round. This checklist tells you what they’ll look for before they look.
03
Operators inheriting a stack
You acquired a company, joined as CTO, or stepped into engineering leadership. You need a structured way to map what you’ve inherited, before something breaks under load.
Free vs paid
The checklist is free. The audit is the paid version.
The checklist is the self-assessment we would run on your stack. The Tech Audit is us running it for you, on your actual code, with a written verdict.
Do it yourself
The free checklist
Free
- 20-page PDF, 47 items across seven sections
- Written for founders: work through it yourself in an afternoon
- Emailed to you the minute you ask, no call, no payment
Done for you
The paid Tech Audit
$499
- A senior engineer works through your actual codebase, infra, and delivery cadence
- Output: an architecture report and a prioritised risk register you can act on
- Starts with a 30-minute scoping call, so you know the shape before you pay
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