Architecture & AI Readiness Review
An independent review of your architecture — is it ready for the next stage of growth and AI adoption, and which improvements should come first?
Not knowing whether your architecture can carry the next stage of growth and AI adoption — or which hidden weaknesses will turn into expensive problems as you scale.
Architecture & AI Readiness Review is an independent review of your existing or proposed software architecture to determine whether it's ready for the next stage of growth and AI adoption. We evaluate architecture, scalability, integrations, cloud infrastructure, technical debt, AI readiness, the major technology choices and the potential sources of technical risk. The goal is to give founders and technical leaders a clear picture of what's working, what may become a problem, and which improvements should be prioritised.
- A clear picture of what's working and what will bite you.
- An honest read on whether you're ready for AI adoption.
- Scalability and technical-debt risks surfaced early.
- A prioritised roadmap of the improvements that matter.
A bounded, phased engagement. Each bar below is proportional to its estimated duration on a shared calendar.
Review the architecture, infrastructure, integrations and debt.
Evaluate scalability, AI readiness, risks and technology choices.
Deliver the roadmap and walk leadership through it.
Concrete artefacts you keep — delivered in editable, open formats your team owns.
Current-State Assessment
An assessment of the architecture as it stands today.
AssessmentStrengths & Weaknesses
What the architecture does well and where it's fragile.
AnalysisTechnical Risk Assessment
The technical risks and their likely impact.
RegisterScalability & Maintainability Review
How well it scales and how easily it's maintained.
ReviewAI Readiness Assessment
Whether the architecture is ready for AI adoption.
AssessmentTechnology & Build-vs-Buy Recommendations
Where to build, buy or change technology.
RecommendationPrioritised Architecture Roadmap
The improvements to make, in priority order.
RoadmapExecutive Review Session
A session to walk leadership through the findings.
Session
The edges of this engagement, and what we’ll need from you to run it.
- Implementing the recommended changes.
- Designing a new architecture from scratch (see RE-002).
- Ongoing technical leadership (see S-007).
- Hands-on infrastructure work.
- Access to the existing or proposed architecture and docs.
- The growth and AI ambitions you're planning for.
- Time with the engineers who know the system.
- An executive sponsor for the review.
Fixed-scope and outcome-priced — one agreed figure for a defined set of deliverables, with no hourly billing.
Fixed-scope review; scales with the size of the system.
- Fixed scope, agreed before we start — no open-ended hourly billing.
- One figure covers the full set of deliverables listed alongside.
- The number only moves with system complexity, and only by agreement.
- Current-State Assessment
- Strengths & Weaknesses
- Technical Risk Assessment
- Scalability & Maintainability Review
- AI Readiness Assessment
- Technology & Build-vs-Buy Recommendations
- Prioritised Architecture Roadmap
- Executive Review Session
Answers to the questions we hear most about this engagement.
Existing or proposed architecture?
Either — we review a live system or a proposed design, judging its readiness for growth and AI adoption.
How is it different from Architecture Design (RE-002)?
RE-008 reviews and prioritises fixes to an architecture that exists or is proposed; RE-002 designs the executable architecture from the ground up.
How is it priced?
A fixed-scope review from $7,500, scaling with the size of the system.
What do we walk away with?
A current-state assessment, risk and AI-readiness assessments, build-vs-buy recommendations, and a prioritised architecture roadmap.