Service Catalog

Strategic Engineering Advisory Scopes

Tailored consulting engagements built around the real inflection points of venture-backed technology startups. We deliver actionable blueprints, technical audits, and executive leadership.

Startup Fractional CTO & Advisory Flagship Retainer

Startup Fractional CTO & Advisory

Our core advisory engagement embeds experienced technical leadership into your founding team. We partner directly with non-technical and first-time technical founders to define technology roadmaps, audit vendor proposals, resolve architectural bottlenecks, and establish rigorous engineering standards without the overhead of a full-time executive hire.

Primary Deliverables:

  • Bi-weekly strategic architecture and product roadmap reviews
  • Executive review of vendor agreements and third-party API contracts
  • Direct technical mentorship for first-time engineering leads
Architecture & Tech Stack Evaluation Diagnostic Audit

Architecture & Tech Stack Evaluation

Avoid costly rewrites and unmanageable technical debt. We conduct an exhaustive examination of your system topology, database access patterns, API design, and cloud resource provisioning, delivering a prioritized remediation roadmap.

Primary Deliverables:

  • System topology and data model evaluation report
  • Database query and index bottleneck identification
  • Cloud resource allocation and cost reduction blueprint
Technical Due Diligence & Investor Readiness Fundraising Support

Technical Due Diligence & Investor Readiness

Venture funds scrutinize code quality, open-source license compliance, security posture, and cloud cost sustainability during fundraising. We prepare founders by stress-testing their technical assets and compiling an investor-ready data room dossier.

Primary Deliverables:

  • Open-source software license dependency vulnerability scan
  • Information security and data handling compliance assessment
  • Technical debt quantification and capital expenditure forecast
Engineering Hiring Strategy & Rubric Design Team Advisory

Engineering Hiring Strategy & Rubric Design

Bad technical hires cost early-stage startups months of momentum. We design customized technical evaluation frameworks, take-home challenge guidelines, and interview loops calibrated to your specific tech stack and stage.

Primary Deliverables:

  • Role scorecards and precise job architecture specifications
  • Real-world technical screening tasks and evaluation scoring rubrics
  • Live interview shadowing and candidate debrief facilitation
Monolith to Modular Refactoring Roadmap Modernization

Monolith to Modular Refactoring Roadmap

When initial MVP prototypes start cracking under increasing feature complexity, rewrites often spell disaster. We map out incremental strangler-fig migration patterns, domain boundary isolation, and contract-first API boundaries.

Primary Deliverables:

  • Domain boundary mapping and dependency graph analysis
  • Incremental database schema separation plan
  • Automated regression testing harness recommendation
Delivery Protocols

How We Deliver Value to Founding Teams

Every advisory engagement follows a rigorous, transparent structure designed to maximize founder autonomy and engineering velocity.

1. Deep Codebase Discovery

We review your git commit history, database schemas, deployment pipelines, and third-party SaaS dependencies under strict NDA before offering opinions.

2. Quantified Roadmap

You receive prioritized recommendations segmented into immediate risk mitigations, medium-term architecture decoupling, and long-term hiring milestones.

3. Hands-On Calibration

We participate in critical architectural reviews, interview loops, and investor discussions alongside founders until internal technical autonomy is reached.