Technical Audit

This is a step we systematically recommend before taking over a project built by another provider: without an audit, you inherit technical choices that are invisible from the outside, sometimes shortcuts that make any future change risky. It's also a common step before a fundraise, since investors want assurance the software can support projected growth without a full rebuild. And a founder who senses that each new feature costs more to build than the last finally gets a factual explanation instead of a hunch.

A poorly scoped audit just lists every flaw in the code without prioritizing them, which discourages more than it helps: every company has technical debt, the real question is which parts of it actually threaten the product. It's also worth checking the auditor's independence: a provider who audits the code only to then sell their own rebuild has an obvious incentive to paint the existing system as worse than it is, so it's often better to have the audit and the takeover handled by two different teams.