Architecture Review

Stress-test your system, before it stresses you

A 5-day deep-dive into your system architecture. We map dependencies, surface scaling risks, and document the decisions your team is one engineer away from forgetting. You leave with a clear picture of where you stand and what to do next.

$2,500
Fixed price, all-in
Duration
5 business days, kickoff to delivery
Format
Remote, async-friendly, brief calls with your team
Output
Diagram + report + roadmap + walkthrough call
Best for
Teams planning a scale event, migration, or rebuild
What you get

Five deliverables, built for decisions

Everything you need to plan your next infrastructure or product move with confidence. No theoretical white papers.

01

Current-state architecture diagram

A clear, current diagram of your system: services, data flows, third-party dependencies, infrastructure boundaries. Bottlenecks and risks called out.

02

Scaling risk report

What breaks at 10x traffic, 10x data, or 10x users. Prioritized by likelihood and severity.

03

Dependency analysis

Every external dependency: vendors, APIs, services. Single points of failure, vendor lock-in, and migration paths.

04

Migration or evolution roadmap

If you're planning a rewrite, migration, or major feature, we sketch the path with phases, risks, and rough effort.

05

Decision record

The key architectural decisions and trade-offs documented in writing. Future you will thank present you.

How it works

One week, kickoff to delivery

DAY 1

Kickoff + docs

One-hour kickoff call. We collect docs, diagrams, and access to whatever observability you have. Calendar holds for two engineer interviews.

DAY 2

System discovery

We map the system from your code, your docs, and short interviews with two of your engineers. AI helps with breadth.

DAY 3

Risk + scaling analysis

We model what happens under stress, audit your dependencies, and identify the biggest risks to scale or stability.

DAY 4

Draft + roadmap

Draft diagram and report ready. Forty-five-minute review call to walk through and align on roadmap.

DAY 5

Final delivery

Final diagram, written report, decision record, and roadmap delivered. One walkthrough call with whoever you want.

Ready to start?

Request your architecture review

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FAQ

Common questions about reviews

Web apps, SaaS platforms, mobile backends, data pipelines, internal tools, and cloud-native systems on AWS, GCP, or Azure. If you're unsure whether we're a fit, ask, we'll tell you straight.

Read-only access to repos in scope, observability tools (DataDog, New Relic, CloudWatch, etc.), and any architecture docs you have. Ninety minutes of time from two of your engineers.

Most teams don't. That's part of the value. We document what we find, and you keep it.

You hear about it within 24 hours. Critical risks go to you straight, not at the end of the week.

Yes, separately. The review is fixed-scope and fixed-price. Implementation is a follow-on engagement scoped based on what we find.

No. We work with on-prem, hybrid, and edge systems too. Cloud-heavy is most common, but not required.

Both, on request. Most reviews are current-state plus a near-term roadmap. If you want to evaluate a proposed future architecture, we can scope that explicitly.

Two senior engineers from our team, one with deep cloud and infra experience, one with deep application architecture experience. Same two all five days.

Stop guessing about your architecture

One week. Fixed price. A roadmap your team can execute.

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