Code & architecture
Get an independent assessment of your codebase, architecture and technical debt, with a prioritised roadmap for what to fix next.
Your review investment
From £999
Starting price · GBP
Final price agreed after we confirm your scope.
Built for your next step
A product can appear to work while accumulating architectural weaknesses, technical debt, fragile dependencies, and maintainability problems underneath.
Our Code Quality & Architecture Review provides an independent engineering assessment of your application to identify structural problems before they become expensive production issues.
Leave with evidence-backed findings, ranked technical risks and a refactoring roadmap your team can use to prioritise further development.
Inside the engagement
We examine how your frontend, backend, database, services, integrations, and infrastructure fit together.
We assess maintainability, modularity, duplication, complexity, dependencies, and separation of responsibilities.
We identify areas where shortcuts or legacy decisions are increasing engineering effort or creating future risk.
We review relevant schema design, data relationships, query patterns, migrations, and data-access architecture.
We examine how users, roles, sessions, and privileged functionality are structured.
We assess how the application detects, handles, logs, and recovers from errors.
We review automated tests, critical coverage gaps, regression risk, and testing practices.
We identify important external libraries, APIs, frameworks, and technical dependencies.
We consider how easily another engineer or team could understand, extend, and maintain the application.
Inside the engagement
Authentication implementation creates a potential privilege boundary issue.
Payment processing logic is tightly coupled to core business logic, increasing failure and maintenance risk.
Automated regression coverage is limited for critical user journeys.
Several modules contain duplicated business logic that could be consolidated.
A clearly defined scope
Independent findings, recommendations and a review session with your team.
Executive engineering summary
Architecture assessment
Code-quality findings
Technical-debt assessment
Critical-risk identification
Prioritised recommendations
Suggested refactoring roadmap
Engineering review call
Final scope depends on application size, number of repositories, technology stack, and required access.
From first conversation to handover
We understand your product, current technology stack, business priorities, known problems, and desired outcome.
Define the systems, repositories, access, review areas or implementation work, deliverables and acceptance criteria for your engagement.
Inspect the agreed product areas, document evidence and prioritise findings. Review recommendations with your team.
Walk through findings and completed work, confirm next priorities and hand over the agreed documentation and recommendations.
The details that matter
A few things to know about scope, timing and working together.
The displayed prices are indicative. We agree a defined scope, acceptance criteria and a project quote before work starts. Requests beyond that scope are estimated separately.
A product or operations contact, access to the agreed systems and documentation, representative test data, and timely feedback. We confirm access and integration dependencies before scheduling delivery.
The target delivery window is 5–7 working days, starting once scope, access and dependencies are ready. Third-party approvals or changes to the agreed scope can affect timing.
We walk your team through the assessment, findings and prioritised roadmap. You can act on the recommendations internally or request a separate engineering proposal.
Prices are indicative GBP project ranges. Final scope, deliverables, acceptance criteria and price are agreed before work starts. Timelines assume defined scope, available technical access and compatible third-party integrations. Vendor, infrastructure, regulatory and licensing costs are excluded.
Let’s make progress
Know what should be fixed before investing further in development.