Architecture audit · Written report · Technical due diligence
An independent assessment of your system. Baseline scores tell you where you are at today; a written report gives you concrete recommendations on what to fix, what to rebuild, and what to leave alone. Teams commission an audit before acquisitions, rebuilds, or cloud migrations.
Sample scorecard
Architecture audit
Overall
2.8/5
When to commission one
Most requests start at a critical crossroad where guessing is expensive.
The product is the core asset. You need to know whether the architecture supports the investment or requires a rewrite after closing.
You took over as CTO, VP, or tech lead on a system you did not design. You need an honest risk inventory before setting team priorities.
A team or vendor quoted a full rewrite. We assess whether targeted refactoring delivers the required outcome for less cost and risk.
You are moving off legacy servers to cloud and containers. You need an accurate baseline of dependencies before committing to a roadmap.
The platform slows down or crashes under load. We trace contention points in your services, queries, and background queues.
The Core Deliverable
Audits should produce clear decisions, not endless spreadsheets.
Baseline assessment & risk inventory
An evidence-based baseline of your system across all critical layers. We inspect your code, database, and infrastructure to surface hidden architectural debt, stability bottlenecks, and security exposures.
Actionable roadmap & architecture guidance
Clear, practical recommendations tailored to your business goals. We tell you what to fix first, what can wait, and whether refactoring or rebuilding makes financial sense.
Scope of Analysis
A proper audit examines both the macro design decisions and the production runtime.
System boundaries, service decomposition, data flow, API contracts, and whether monolithic or distributed components are coupled.
Latency under peak concurrency, database index efficiency, connection pooling, queue throughput, and scaling limits.
Cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kubernetes/container manifests, compute rightsizing, and eliminating infrastructure spend waste.
Authentication flows, role-based access, secret management, data encryption, and compliance posture (HIPAA, SOC 2).
Code maintainability, test coverage confidence, deprecated runtimes, unmaintained packages, and architectural shortcuts.
CI/CD automation, deploy frequency, rollback safety, environment parity, and operational observability.
Scoring Model
We score each area against an explicit rubric to identify where your architecture is capped. The lowest score indicates the bottleneck.
Access controls, secret hygiene, encryption, and regulatory constraints.
Behavior under peak traffic and where horizontal scaling caps.
Modularity, abstraction hygiene, and how safely new engineers can ship.
Time from commit to production, automated verification, and rollback safety.
Visibility into runtime health: structured logs, traces, metrics, and alerts.
Infrastructure and cloud utilization against delivered user value.
Deprecated frameworks, unmaintained dependencies, and workaround interest.
Match between technology complexity, team capacity, and hiring reality.
Process
Engagements run one to four weeks, depending on system scale and component count.
We sign mutual NDAs, obtain read-only access to code and infrastructure definitions, and interview technical stakeholders.
We inspect the source code, database catalogs, query patterns, cloud manifests, and telemetry data.
We evaluate the baseline scores, draft recommendations, and rank findings by risk and remediation effort.
We deliver the written report and engineering annex, followed by a live walkthrough session with your team.
Outputs
Leadership gets actionable decisions; engineering gets forensic evidence.
For Founders, Boards & Investors
Written in plain English. Summarizes system risks, business impact, total cost of ownership estimates, and go/no-go recommendations.
For Tech Leads, Architects & Engineers
Written for the developers who will implement the changes. Contains exact code references, database findings, and estimated remediation effort.
Engagements
Scoped and agreed before review starts.
A single critical system, rewrite quote sanity-check, or vendor proposal review.
Pre-acquisition due diligence, complex multi-service architectures, or inherited platforms.
Questions
Next step
A 30-minute scoping call is enough to discuss your system, your timeline, and agree on the right review shape.
contact@innovi.proTell us about your tech stack, system challenges, and decision timeline.