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Read the state. Cost the plan.
Before you commit capital, headcount, or a modernisation calendar, get a senior-engineer read of what you actually have. Every assessment we run ends in a written report and a costed plan, so the decision that follows is clean.
Every assessment we run
Fixed-price where it fits, free where a signal is enough.
Eight offerings, from board-ready diligence at $25K to a ten-minute risk scorecard you can run yourself. Pick the one that matches how much conviction you need before the next decision.
PAID · $15K to $25K
Technical Due Diligence
Pre-deal or post-close read of a target or portfolio-company tech stack. Board-ready report covering architecture, code health, ops posture, team, and the risk register. Written for investors, not engineers.
10 business days
Learn morePAID · FROM $50K
Technical Assessment
Enterprise-scale platform read for modernisation planning. Senior-engineer walkthrough of the system you have, the highest-leverage moves next, and a phased delivery plan with milestone-based pricing.
1 to 2 weeks
Learn morePAID · $8K
MVP Diagnostic
Compress three months of architecture thrashing into ten days. You walk out with a buildable plan, a defensible stack, a user-story backlog, and a fixed price for the sprint that follows.
10 business days
Learn morePAID · SCOPED
Product Diagnostic
A read on your product itself. UX flow, IA coherence, roadmap sequencing, and where the product is quietly costing you customers. Delivered as a written readout with a prioritised backlog.
2 weeks typical
Scope one with TomPAID · SCOPED
Engineering Diagnostic
Team, delivery cadence, technical debt. A candid read on why shipping has slowed, what to fix first, and whether the org shape matches the roadmap. Includes anonymised interviews.
2 weeks typical
Scope one with TomFREE · 30 MIN
AI-Readiness Audit
A six-dimension self-assessment covering the first use case, data integration, data quality, documents, data protection, and evaluation. Scored automatically, with a personalised readout that shows where to invest before writing a line of code.
30 minutes
Use itFREE · 10 MIN
Tech-Risk Scorecard
Twelve questions on a portfolio company or target. Get an instant risk band and a punch-list of the diligence questions you should be asking before signing.
10 minutes
Use itFREE · PDF
Pre-Acquisition Diligence Checklist
Forty questions across eight sections covering architecture, cloud economics, security, team, vendors, delivery, data, and reliability. Sort each answer held up, unclear, or red flag in the browser during your next diligence conversation, print it for the data room, and know exactly where the gaps are.
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Get the PDFHow an assessment runs
Four steps, two to three weeks, on the record.
Step 01
Book a call
A twenty-minute conversation so we can hear the shape of what you need. If an assessment is the right opening move, we scope it on the call.
Step 02
Scope the assessment
A one-page scope document goes back to you within 48 hours. Fixed price, fixed timeline, named deliverables. You sign or you send edits.
Step 03
The engagement
Typically one to two weeks. Interviews, code reads, architecture walkthroughs, ops reviews. Weekly written check-ins so nothing lands as a surprise.
Step 04
Readout and costed plan
A written report plus a live readout. The plan comes with option pricing so the decision after the assessment is clean.
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A data platform diagnostic that traced why manual collection was capping the business, then costed the shift to autonomous extraction.
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