An independent, structured review of your existing architecture — with a clear, prioritised action plan.

When You Need an Audit

You’ve inherited a system. Or you’re six months into a programme and something feels wrong. Or you’re about to make a significant investment and want to know what you’re building on.

An architecture audit gives you an honest, outside-in perspective — free from internal politics, vendor bias, or the pressure to validate prior decisions. The output is a written report with findings and a ranked list of what to fix, and why.

What the Audit Covers

The audit scope is agreed at the outset and typically covers one or more of the following:

Architecture Assessment Areas

  • Fitness for purpose — Does the current architecture support the stated business goals? Where does it constrain them?
  • Structural integrity — Are there anti-patterns, tightly-coupled components, or design decisions that will cause problems at scale?
  • Technology risk — Deprecated components, unsupported platforms, skills gaps, vendor lock-in exposure
  • Security and compliance posture — Architecture-level security controls, data flow risks, regulatory alignment
  • Integration landscape — How systems communicate, where the seams are, and what breaks if one component fails
  • Cloud and infrastructure design — Resource organisation, cost efficiency, scalability, observability
  • Data architecture — Data flows, ownership, quality, and governance

What You Receive

  1. Audit report — A structured document with findings categorised by severity: critical, high, medium, and informational
  2. Architecture diagrams — Current-state documentation if it doesn’t exist, or corrections to what does
  3. Prioritised action plan — Concrete recommendations ranked by business impact and implementation effort
  4. Debrief session — A 90-minute walkthrough of findings with your technical and business stakeholders

How It Works

A typical audit runs over 3–4 weeks and follows a structured process:

  1. Kickoff — Agree scope, access requirements, and stakeholder interviews
  2. Discovery — Document review, codebase walkthrough, infrastructure review, stakeholder conversations
  3. Analysis — Findings synthesis, risk mapping, recommendation development
  4. Report delivery — Written report delivered, followed by stakeholder debrief session

No hidden dependencies. No open-ended engagements. The audit is a fixed-scope, fixed-price deliverable.

Who This Is For

  • Engineering leaders who have taken over a system and need to understand what they’re working with
  • CTOs preparing for a fundraise or acquisition who need an independent technical assessment
  • Organisations about to invest significantly in a platform or programme who want architectural confidence before committing
  • Delivery teams mid-programme who sense something is wrong but need an objective view to surface it

The Value

An audit costs a fraction of what it costs to fix architectural problems discovered during delivery — or worse, after go-live. The findings are candid, the recommendations are actionable, and the report gives your engineering leadership a shared baseline to work from.

🌟 Important

“I don’t audit to confirm what you want to hear. I audit to give you what you need to make the right next decision.”

Scope and Pricing

Audit engagements are scoped based on the breadth and complexity of the review. Focused, single-system audits are priced differently from broader engagements covering multiple systems, domains, or a full enterprise landscape.

Start with a free discovery conversation to define the right scope for your situation.