Find out if your product and team are ready to scale

What is our technical audit report?

In one sentence: it’s a very detailed document (15-20 pages), covering all the risks associated with your current technology, codebase, and team-level problems that that will eventually prevent your software product from scaling.

Around 90% of SaaS startups fail within 3 years from launchingdespite having access to sufficient funding. One of the main reasons is their inability to predict what could go wrong with their product, team, or both.

Through our unique auditing process, we’ll help you avoid that scenario. Apart from the specific areas you’ll like us to cover, we’ll also get you answers to the key questions every CTO, Founder, or SaaS team leader should know:

• Is our software solution ready to scale?
• How much legacy code and technical debt does my product have?
• Are my software developers actually seniors?
• Why does my engineering team keep missing deadlines?
• Will we be able to handle scaling our SaaS product with our current team, technology, and processes?

What we cover and how we do it

Our unique methodology is based on 5 pillars, because just analyzing the code or looking at technical documentation isn’t enough.

#1 Team & Leadership

People are the most important asset. We’ll get to know your company values and see if the team understands and aligns with them. We’ll also determine how management plays a role in the company and how it affects the team.

As part of this step, we’ll talk individually with your team members, from junior developers to the CTO. We’ve conducted hundreds of interviews and we know how to get people to talk openly and honestly because we provide anonymity—something that’s not possible during one-on-one performance reviews with their manager.

#2 Process

Whether auditing a product or a service company, there is always a process. Neglecting it while working on a development roadmap often results in features not being delivered, a high employee turnover rate, a low-quality delivery of features, etc.

We take a multi-faceted approach to analysing our client’s processes using both in-person methods (interviews) and digging through code and documentation ourselves.

#3 Written communication

Documentation is the source of truth both internally and externally. There are many types of documentation such as technical documentation, spanning architecture description to coding guidelines, setup guides for new hires, or the external documentation of a customer-facing API.

We’ll access and review your communication tools, the language your team uses (important for remote companies), and we’ll provide feedback on technical and non-technical documentation—how easy it is to follow, edit, and whether it’s reusable for your future hires.

#4 Engineering

The engineering or development team is usually the heart behind the product and company. Just like the company has a roadmap and vision of where it wants to go, the development team should also have this vision for their codebase.

We take a look at the high-level architecture of the application or ecosystem and how all the components communicate. It is not necessarily important what the specific issues are, but it is vital to know if the development team is aware of them and if there is a plan to address them.

#5 Problem and solution

Having a clearly defined problem which is being solved by a clearly defined solution is essential to success. It’s natural for a product to evolve over time; however, care and attention are needed to prevent the product from becoming too complex or ineffective.

In this last pillar, we’ll analyse your product vision (if there is one), development roadmap, how you prioritize tasks and feature ideas, which metrics you use, and how well you research the end users.