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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Inside the field guide

What’s inside the 20-page field guide

  • Architecture Foundations

    7 items

    The codebase your future Series A will inherit. Modular monolith vs microservices, environments, deploy frequency, backups.

  • Auth & Trust

    6 items

    The architecture of your security posture. Managed auth providers, session strategy, MFA, audit logs, secrets handling.

  • Data & Billing

    7 items

    The edge cases where money and trust break. Stripe setup, webhook idempotency, refunds, dunning, dispute trails.

  • Data Quality

    6 items

    Whether you can trust the numbers your dashboards show. Source-of-truth boundaries, event schemas, backfill discipline.

  • Performance & Scale

    7 items

    The layer where products fail invisibly. Search performance, query budgets, caching, cost visibility, load testing.

  • Operational Tooling

    7 items

    Whether your team can operate the platform without engineering. Admin console, refunds without engineering, on-call playbooks.

  • Compliance Posture

    7 items

    The section that most often surfaces unwelcome surprises at Series A. GDPR, sector regimes, SOC 2, incident response, diligence-readiness.

Who it’s for

Who this checklist is for

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.

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