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“I very much respect the knowledge that you have. You have a lot of things, just in our few communications, that no one else has mentioned. No one else has even made me think about them.”
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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Track record
- 180+
- Products shipped
- 58
- Verified reviews
- 2019
- Founded
Since 2019, across three continents
4.6 average across public profiles
UK-registered engineering firm
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
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.
What clients say after the build
Real client reviews: 4.6/5 across 58, every one checkable at source. Lightly copyedited for spelling only.
AI Change Management 
0:10“I find him very nice to work with and he actually delivers a very good quality. So I am really happy with him.”
Restaurants Insightful 0:09“The confidence that you're building with me the full product is what I want to go with.”
Self-image 0:07“You guys seem switched on and like you know what you're doing. I've got a good feeling about it.”
GoldenEye 0:05“You guys take a lot of pride and ownership in the work.”
“The team treats our roadmap like their own. Every standup felt like working with our own engineers, not an outside vendor.”
PixelFox “They shipped the production version of what our previous agency had been promising for nine months, without the weekly excuses.”
“They told us what NOT to build. That single conversation re-shaped six months of roadmap and saved us a lot of money.”
NDA - Signed “I had a large project built that needed a very specific understanding and the project was executed perfectly. Great design, great code, no bugs and anything I needed was done incredibly professionally. I would highly recommend and I will definitely be coming back with my…”
$4,000 and above · 11 monthsVerified client review
NDA - Signed “We approached several sellers in our search to get an app developed for our Shopify store. I had a very clear idea in my mind what we wanted and, through [their] expert questioning, [they] absolutely 'got it'. This was further proved through delivery of a…”
$1,500-$2,000 · 4 weeksVerified client review
NDA - Signed “We're working on a Shopify app that retrieves book data from our API and helps online stores and booksellers create book listings faster. This time, we needed to improve the app design and fix functionality issues. In general, we're satisfied with the service and plan…”
$400-$600 · 3 weeksVerified client review
NDA - Signed “This was a special request where we needed to rush this development. [They] complied and finished everything at the agreed time, and even worked until 2AM [their] local time in order to finish this on time. [They] went the extra mile for us with this…”
Verified client review
NDA - Signed “[They were] very patient as we figured out exactly what we needed our app to do. [They were] able to get all the functionality we required, communicated well, and [were] upfront about the cost. We'll definitely be coming back for future projects!”
Verified client review
NDA - Signed “Absolutely fantastic work. This was a tricky app, and [they] did great work. [They] really know [their] way around Shopify and the process for developing a Shopify app, which was a great help to me! [They're] motivated and committed, and delivered a very high-quality app.…”
Verified client review
NDA - Signed “I am very pleased to have worked with [them]! [They were] very detailed and delivered me perfection in an app! I look forward to working with [them] again!”
$3,000-$4,000 · 2 monthsVerified client review
NDA - Signed “Amazing service. Amazing time. Took all input and made the site great even with minor changes along the way. Will certainly try to use again if I'm lucky enough to have [them] work with me again. Thank you for everything.”
Verified client review
NDA - Signed “Very fast and thorough. [They] did exactly what I asked and then went the extra mile to tie up a couple of loose ends. I'm really pleased with the speed and efficiency, and would certainly recommend [them]. Thank you for your help and highly professional…”
Verified client review
NDA - Signed “[They understand] the problem so well and deliver the results super quick. I'll not hesitate to say that I've found a gem. One thousand percent recommended!”
Verified client review
NDA - Signed “Very positive experience. [They are] diligent, hardworking, and [have] good communication skills. Highly recommended.”
Verified client review
NDA - Signed “[They were] very patient, [and] prepared to go the extra mile so I got the result I wanted. Highly recommended.”
Verified client review
NDA - Signed “The project was not easy, literally. [They] did hard work on our project and finished as expected. Would like to work on upcoming new features together. Thank you.”
Verified client review
NDA - Signed “[They are] reasonable, meticulous, [have] a great sense of design, and [are] very responsive. I really enjoyed working with [them] and [they] delivered a beautiful website for me.”
Verified client review
NDA - Signed “Extremely patient and did not stop until what I needed was delivered. Excellent partner to work with!”
Verified client review
NDA - Signed “I didn't expect such great service from someone I found without a referral. I got lucky and I hope to work with [them] again in the future.”
10 daysVerified client review
NDA - Signed “Bought this to create a website for my startup company. Results were above and beyond what I was expecting! Quick to answer, and always gave great input and ideas!”
Verified client review
NDA - Signed “We are very impressed with the service and the delivery and will use them again!”
Verified client review
NDA - Signed “Great work and completed exactly as requested!”
Verified client review
NDA - Signed “100% satisfied. Got more than expected.”
Verified client review
NDA - Signed “Great communication, great result.”
Verified client review
NDA - Signed “Thank you so much for such outstanding work.”
Verified client review
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