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Production Readiness Audit

Two weeks. Fixed price, £3,500, paid in full up front. You get a written scorecard, a ranked list of the five highest-risk gaps, and a 90-day execution roadmap. Whether or not you ever hire us for the remediation.

£3,500 fixed 2 weeks Paid up front

Who this is for

You have a working AI demo. Investors are impressed. The team says they are at 80% — but you have been "at 80%" for three months. Production is the wall you keep running into. Maybe the pilot is live but accuracy has drifted. Maybe infra costs are ballooning. Maybe your engineer left and you have no idea what is actually running.

The audit is a short, fixed-price way to find out what specifically is in the way, why it matters, and what order to fix it in. It is the lowest-commitment way to work together.

What you get

  • 5-dimension readiness scorecard. Correctness, security, performance, observability, operations. Every dimension scored 0–5 with the specific evidence behind it.
  • Cost, latency, and failure-mode analysis. What each request costs today. Where the P95 latency is hiding. What breaks at 10x load.
  • Ranked list of the five highest-risk gaps. Not twenty things. The five that would kill you first.
  • 90-day execution roadmap. Time and cost estimates per fix. What your team can do in-house versus where you need help.
  • 30-minute live debrief with your engineering lead, on Zoom, recorded.

How it runs

Week one: read-only access to the repo, the cloud account, and the observability stack. One interview each with the founder, the engineering lead, and one production engineer. A synthetic load test. A replay of the last 30 days of logs.

Week two: writing. The scorecard, the roadmap, the debrief. You get a draft at day 10 and the final at day 14.

FAQ

Can you sign an NDA?

Yes. Standard practice. Most of my delivered work is under NDA; I sign yours or provide mine.

What if you find something serious?

You get the same written deliverables regardless of severity. If we both agree a Build Sprint is the right next step, we talk about it. If not, you walk away with the written plan and implement internally or with another vendor.

Can this be done remotely?

Yes. Most audits are fully remote. If your environment requires on-site presence (air-gapped, classified), add travel at cost.

Ready to book the audit?

Book a free 30-minute discovery call first. If we are a fit, you have a signed statement of work within 48 hours.

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