Independent technical leadership
Give founders an independent senior-level view of technology, engineering and priorities, with a recommended 30/60/90-day roadmap.
Your review investment
From £1,500
Starting price · GBP
Final price agreed after we confirm your scope.
Built for your next step
If you're not deeply technical, it can be difficult to know whether your product is being engineered correctly.
Are development estimates reasonable?
Is your architecture appropriate?
Does the team need more engineers—or better priorities?
Should you rebuild something?
Is your agency delivering what was promised?
Are you ready to scale?
Our Independent CTO & Engineering Review gives founders a senior-level technical perspective without requiring a full-time CTO.
Leave with a Founder Technology Assessment, clear immediate priorities and a recommended 30/60/90-day roadmap discussed in a founder strategy session.
Inside the engagement
Where included in the engagement:
We assess whether the technology roadmap reasonably supports the company's business objectives.
We help determine where custom engineering makes sense and where established platforms or services may be more economical.
If your startup uses an external technology partner, we can independently assess relevant deliverables and engineering practices.
Inside the engagement
Inside the engagement
A clearly defined scope
Independent findings, recommendations and a review session with your team.
Executive summary
Overall technology assessment
Key technical risks
Architecture observations
Engineering observations
Team/vendor observations where applicable
Priority recommendations
Recommended 30/60/90-day roadmap
Founder strategy session
Broader technology due diligence, large engineering organisations, or multiple products require custom scope.
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 5–10 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
Understand where your technology stands before making the next major engineering decision.