Nothing to sign, no follow-up sequence
Usually within the same week
The people who would do the work
What the system does, who depends on it, what money or obligation runs through it, and what specifically went wrong. We are listening for consequence, not for features.
You share a screen and we read. Structure, dependencies, the last hundred commits, the tests if there are any, and the parts your team avoids touching. The parts people avoid are usually the answer.
How it is deployed, what it depends on, where state lives, and what happens when each of those fails. This is where most sessions turn up something the client did not know.
We tell you what we saw, on the call, while you can still argue with it. Not in a follow-up deck a week later when it has been softened for the relationship.
An honest range and an honest sequence — or, when it applies, that you do not have a problem worth paying us to solve.
Either read access to the repository beforehand, or someone who can share a screen and navigate it live. Beforehand is better — we arrive having read it.
Either read access to the repository beforehand, or someone who can share a screen and navigate it live. Beforehand is better — we arrive having read it.
Either read access to the repository beforehand, or someone who can share a screen and navigate it live. Beforehand is better — we arrive having read it.
Either read access to the repository beforehand, or someone who can share a screen and navigate it live. Beforehand is better — we arrive having read it.
Because ninety minutes costs us two engineers’ afternoon, and because we would rather spend that than write a proposal for work we do not understand. It also disqualifies quickly in both directions, which is worth more to us than a filled calendar.
The audit is expensive because it is weeks of work and produces documents you can act on. The review is ninety minutes and produces an opinion. Those are different things and they are priced differently.
The test is simple and you should apply it: if ninety minutes pass and nobody has asked about your budget, your timeline or your decision-making process, it was not a sales call.
We publish this claim because it is checkable. If your experience differs from this page, that is a legitimate reason to distrust everything else on this site, and we would want to hear about it.
Bring it anyway. A meaningful share of what looks like a code problem turns out to be an ownership problem, a scope problem, or two teams with incompatible assumptions. We will say so if that is what we see, and that answer costs you nothing here.
Yes. Send yours and we will sign it in advance.
Yes, though it is a weaker session. We can work from architecture diagrams, incident history and a conversation, and we will tell you which of our conclusions are therefore lower-confidence.

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Nobody signs a modernization program to a firm they met last week. Each rung below exists to de-risk the next one, and every client we have on a program today started somewhere near the top of this list.
Ninety minutes, live and recorded. Two of our engineers, your codebase and your worst problem. You keep the findings whether or not you hire us. This is not a sales call — there are no salespeople on it.
Our named diagnostic. Fixed price, fixed scope, walk-away clause: you own the architecture map, risk register, remediation plan and a fixed-price build proposal regardless of what you do next.
Stop the bleeding on a failing system, or take one stalled AI pilot the whole way into production. Most companies we meet have exactly one of these waiting.
The rebuild. Phased and milestone-billed, with a named architect and a steering cadence you can take to a board. Almost never sold cold — it is bought by people who already watched us.
Four to six engineers and a tech lead, running your roadmap under our delivery process. The rung that compounds, and the one we have been doing longest.
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