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Independent review your CTO can defend to your board

When the executive team asks 'is our technology in good shape?', the answer should be backed by evidence, not opinion. We deliver an independent forensic audit across 10 dimensions — security, architecture, performance, AI accountability, cost discipline, multi-tenant isolation, payment integrity, error recovery, observability, escalation paths.

Texas-based · EN/ES bilingual native · Fixed-fee engagements · No vendor lock-in
The Problem

Internal teams have blind spots. Vendors have incentives to recommend their own products. Big-name consultancies deliver 200-page decks instead of actionable findings. You need someone with no skin in the game who has actually shipped production systems — and isn't selling you software.

How it works

Five steps from kickoff to live in production

  1. 01Kickoff (1 hour): you scope what's in audit (typically 2-15 systems)
  2. 0210-dimension forensic review across 30-50 specific checkpoints — this is not a survey, it's a deep dive
  3. 03Findings classified: CRITICAL (block) / HIGH (urgent) / MEDIUM (planned) / LOW (eventually) — with concrete remediation for each
  4. 04Executive 1-page summary your board can read in 3 minutes + technical appendix your team can act on
  5. 05Optional: we fix the criticals. Separate engagement, fixed-fee per finding, no surprises.
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Pre-fundraising audit: surfaced 33 CRITICAL findings the leadership didn't know existed — addressed before due diligence

— Anonymized client outcome, verified
Investment

Two engagement tiers, fixed-fee, no surprises

All engagements include onboarding, documentation, 30-day post-launch tuning, and quarterly architecture review for 12 months. Net-15 invoicing available for established businesses.

Frequently asked

What teams ask before signing

Will you sign an NDA?

Standard practice. We use mutual NDA template; happy to sign yours if reasonable.

Do you keep our code?

No. Code stays on your infrastructure. We work via screen-share or temporary read-only access. Audit findings stored encrypted, deleted after delivery + 90 days.

What if the audit finds something embarrassing?

Findings go to your designated executive only. Several engagements have been pre-disclosure for board-level conversations; that's normal. We're not in the business of public reports.

Is this just for big companies?

We've audited stacks from 5-person startups to 200-person scaleups. Framework adapts — a 5-person team gets 30 actionable findings, not 485.

How is this different from a SOC 2 audit?

SOC 2 evaluates organizational controls (does access policy exist, are reviews documented). We evaluate the systems themselves — the code, the prompts, the data flows, the failure modes. SOC 2 won't catch a hallucination pattern or a multi-tenant data leak in a specific feature; we will.

Want to know if this fits your business?

30-minute strategy call. No pitch deck. We map your situation live, tell you whether this engagement fits, and what we'd recommend if it doesn't.