Fixed, quoted after the free review
Ten working days of engineering
Every deliverable, regardless of what follows
Repository, environments, credentials, ticket history and whatever documentation exists. We read the code before we ask you anything, so the first working session is about what you want the system to do — not about explaining what it currently does.
Output · Access confirmed · scope of the estate agreed in writing
Every service, dependency, data store, scheduled job and third-party integration drawn as it actually is rather than as the last diagram claimed. Each risk written down with a consequence, a likelihood and a cost of leaving it alone.
Output · Architecture map · risk register, ranked by consequence
Where this breaks next, and what it takes down when it does. Run-cost model, capacity headroom against your growth assumptions, and the security and compliance findings that cannot wait behind a rebuild.
Output · Failure-mode analysis · run-cost model · security findings
Sequenced work with its dependencies made explicit, a recommendation on what to repair versus replace versus retire, & a fixed price against a fixed scope for whatever we think should happen next. Presented live, with the engineers who did the work.
Output · Remediation plan · fixed-price proposal · recorded walkthrough
Because it is two to three weeks of senior engineering time, and because the alternative pricing — free, unscoped, performed by someone whose only path to revenue is selling you the build — produces a document you cannot trust.
The industry convention is to price discovery at roughly five to ten per cent of the estimated build budget. On a $300,000 program that puts the audit somewhere near $25,000, and it is the cheapest point at which the program can still be cancelled.
Then that is what the report says, and you keep it. An assessment that can only ever conclude “hire us for the rebuild” is not an assessment, it is a proposal with a longer timeline.
We would rather write a report that saves you a seven-figure mistake and earns us nothing further than write one that wins us a program we do not believe in.
No, and the walk-away clause is contractual rather than a gesture. Every deliverable is yours, in editable formats, with no licensing conditions attached. Clients have taken our remediation plan to their in-house team or to another firm, and that is a legitimate outcome of buying it.
Read access to the repositories, the ability to run the system in a non-production environment, ticket and incident history, and ninety minutes each with two or three people who have worked on it. We do not need production data, and we ask not to be given it.
Number of distinct services and data stores, how many runtimes and languages are in play, whether infrastructure is defined in code or by hand, whether a compliance regime applies, and how much of the institutional knowledge still exists inside the company. We quote the fixed number after the Code & Risk Review, not before.
Yes, and we will sign yours rather than insisting on ours.
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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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