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CTO-level advisory · Toronto

Your product runs onone person.That's not a team. That's a risk.

We audit your technology against the scale you're targeting — phased findings with evidence, plus the organizational scorecard investors and founders actually use.

2-minute health check · full audit in three weeks

8
Audit Phases
25
Org Dimensions
3
Week Turnaround

01 — The Problem

Scaling exposes what was hidden.

  • Your tech can't keep up with your growth.

  • Your team is firefighting instead of building.

  • Your investors are nervous about technical risk.

02 — The Technical Audit

Know what breaks before you scale.

Our first step is a structured, read-only audit — so founders and investors see technical risk clearly, with proof.

  • We review your codebase and systems against the scale you're targeting.

  • Every finding is evidence-backed — severity, impact, and what to fix first.

  • You get an executive summary and a prioritized roadmap, not a vague deck.

03 — Organizational Scorecard

Five domains. Twenty-five dimensions. One clear picture.

Human-led scoring across team, vendors, documentation, and engineering practice — complements the phased codebase audit above.

25-dimension scorecard

Sample output · FIG. SC-01

Live
scale 0–5
< 2.5 2.5–4 > 4

Select a domain to inspect — chart updates in sync.

Scalability3.0
Resilience3.5
Data Model4.0
Service Boundaries2.5
Cloud Strategy3.0

04 — Who We Help

Three groups. One discipline.

Whether you're building, scaling, or investing — we bring the same rigour.

Scaling Startups

Make your tech organization scale as fast as your product.

  • Eight-phase audit calibrated to your scale goal
  • Find architectural blockers before they bite
  • Get a CTO-level partner on call

Learn more

Idea → Product

Define the right product before you write a line of code.

  • Sharpen scope with a real PRD and TRD
  • De-risk with an interactive prototype
  • Hand engineering a buildable plan

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Investors

See the technical truth before you wire the money.

  • P0–P3 findings with evidence — DD-ready tier
  • Executive summary & bottleneck register
  • Plain-English risk reporting

Learn more

05 — How We Work

Assess. Design. Strengthen.

A simple, repeatable shape. Tuned for engineering reality.

  1. Step 01

    Assess

    Phased codebase audit (0–7) plus 25-dimension organizational scoring — calmly, candidly, with file-level evidence.

    Audit bundle + scorecard
  2. Step 02

    Design

    We translate findings into a sequenced roadmap your team can actually ship — with target architecture and trade-offs spelled out.

    Roadmap + reference architecture
  3. Step 03

    Strengthen

    We stay close while it ships — CTO-level guidance, design reviews, and team enablement until the foundation holds.

    Ongoing advisory

06 — The Flywheel

One relationship that keeps compounding.

From the first assessment to ongoing monitoring, we stay close. Each engagement compounds — your team gets sharper, your architecture gets stronger, and your investors get the technical clarity they want.

What you get back

$1M+

Typical first-year value — in dev time saved, refactor avoided, and budget protected.

Valuable services that turn fragile tech into a platform you can scale on.

  • Reliable, resilient platform

    Production systems that hold under growth — not hero-dependent, not fragile.

  • Architecture that scales

    Designs your team can extend instead of emergency rewrites every growth spurt.

  • Structure for onboarding

    Clear ownership, runbooks, and systems so new engineers ship in weeks, not months.

  • Time and budget protected

    Fewer cycles lost to refactoring, outages, debugging, and firefighting — more runway for product.

07 — Results

Numbers that speak for themselves.

30+
Ventures advised
25
Assessment dimensions
3 wks
Assessment to roadmap
15+
Years of experience

Ready to find out what's holding your tech back?

Start with a 2-minute health check, or book a scoping call for the full eight-phase technical audit.

No pitch. No obligation. Just clarity.

NDA on request — your idea stays yours.