stabilty audits
This is a focused evaluation of AI-enabled and software-driven systems to understand where risk exists and how to improve system reliability and structure.
There are two distinct audits depending on what you need to understand first:
- Launch Readiness: Whether your system is safe to launch and operate in real conditions
- Foundation: Whether your system is structurally sound for long-term growth
Most engagements start with launch risk, and expand into architecture once the system is live.
Launch Readiness
Find what's most likely to cause a serious incident in the first 30 days, before your customers find it first.
The Launch Readiness Audit is a focused review of your system before it goes into real user traffic.
The goal is simple: identify what is most likely to fail, break, or create user-visible issues in the first 30 days of launch, before your customers find it first.
This is a risk-focused evaluation of production readiness across your core system, workflows, and infrastructure.
When this is a good fit
Use this if:
- You are close to launching, recently launched, or are expecting a wave of usage
- You need confidence that core user flows will hold under real usage
- You want to catch critical issues before customers do
- You don’t want launch to become your first real stress test
What I review
- Core system architecture and critical workflows
- Authentication, permissions, and access control
- Data integrity, schemas, and migrations
- Secrets, environment config, and security exposure
- Infrastructure and deployment setup
- Critical user-facing flows
- External dependencies and failure points
What you get
- Clear identification of what could break in real usage
- Severity ratings and estimated effort to fix
- Launch readiness recommendation
- QA plan for release validation
- 60-minute walkthrough of findings and next steps
Outcome
You leave launch with a clear understanding of system risk, what must be fixed before launch, and what can safely wait.
Foundation
Strengthen the system you will build on for the next 12-24 months.
The Foundation Audit evaluates whether your system is structurally designed to support the next 12–24 months of product development.
This is about whether your architecture, workflows, and data model will continue to hold as the product evolves, expands, and becomes more complex.
The goal is to surface structural decisions that will either enable or constrain future development.
When this is a good fit
Use this if:
- Your product is working, but iteration is starting to feel slower or more fragile
- You are adding features and want to avoid accumulating technical debt
- You are unsure if your current architecture matches your long-term product direction
- You want to understand whether you should evolve or eventually restructure parts of the system
What I review
- System architecture and how it supports change over time
- Workflow and feature consistency across the product
- Coupling and structural dependencies between components
- Data model design and alignment with future product direction
- Internal system boundaries and separation of responsibilities
- Operational visibility into system behavior (what breaks, and why)
- Deployment and release patterns through the lens of maintainability
What you get
- Clear structural assessment of your system’s long-term viability
- Identification of design decisions that will limit future development
- Prioritized recommendations for high-leverage improvements
- Architecture diagrams capturing current system structure
- Clear guidance on what to evolve, refactor, or leave as-is
- 60-minute walkthrough of findings and next steps
Outcome
You leave with clarity on whether your current system can support where the product is going, and what structural changes are needed to keep building without compounding complexity.