Overview
Knowing the true state of a codebase matters most just ahead of recruiting a team, acquiring a business or green-lighting a rebuild. A senior engineer spends roughly four hours in your repository, checking whether it builds on a laptop, how much of it is tested, how knotted the dependency graph looks and what the commit log suggests about daily habits. You then receive a short report that grades maintainability, singles out the three most serious risks and roughly sizes the work needed to deal with each.
What you receive
- A tight written report, 3 to 4 pages long, without padding
- A maintainability grade, with the case for that grade explained
- The 3 most serious technical risks, with probable cost and approximate fix effort
- Observations on test coverage and how current the dependencies are
- Remarks on the docs, getting it running locally, and onboarding difficulty
- An opinion on team habits, drawn from commit and review history
How it runs
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Step - 01
Access
You grant our engineer viewing rights on the primary repository, history included.
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Step - 02
Inspect
A senior engineer examines the code, commit log and configuration files in depth.
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Step - 03
Score
Each finding is rated by how a newly joined developer would experience it.
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Step - 04
Report
We email the report and answer one round of your questions on it.
Timeline: 4 working days, counted from the day we receive what we need from you.
Is it a fit?
A good match for
- Acquirers or investors who want a quick technical view before formal diligence
- Founders about to build an in-house engineering team
- Managers being told the product must be rebuilt from scratch
What we need from you
- Viewing rights on your primary repository, full history intact
- A one-line summary of what the product does and its approximate user base
- Any particular concern you would like us to look into
Why it helps
- An independent view before any budget is locked into one direction
- Rewrite debates shift from loud opinion to evidence
- A compact document suited to circulating among directors or investors
Questions
No. Anything worrying we notice along the way will be flagged, but thorough security testing sits in our separate penetration testing service.
Roughly 100,000 lines can be read meaningfully. For anything larger we examine a sample and state clearly in the report which parts were covered.
Yes. We sign an NDA before you grant any access to the repository. It is a routine step for this service and adds no delay to the timeline.