A small senior team of tech experts, led by Sachin Garg, CTO
We check the code, the team, and the risks, and walk you and your team through what we find.
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90 minutes with Sachin Garg, CTO · $500 · Refundable in one click
Why an independent read
Before you invest or acquire, we tell you plainly whether it's an asset or a problem. Before you sell, we find what a buyer's team will find, while there's still time to fix it. If there's work to do afterward, we lead it with the company's own people.
The bottom line
Asset, liability, or fixable
Plus what we'd negotiate and what we'd watch in the first 100 days.
What we check
We look at the architecture and the code: what's sound, what's brittle, and what it realistically costs to fix.
01 · The code
How much of the value comes from core components the team built itself, and how much from open-source modules or third-party APIs. Both can be valuable, in different ways. And how hard it would be for someone else to build the same thing.
02 · The team
Most product delays aren't tech problems. They're truck number problems. We check how much of the product depends on one person, and what happens to it if they leave.
03 · The risks
The outside services, APIs, and open-source modules the product can't run without, and what happens to the costs and the roadmap if one of them changes its prices or terms, or stops being maintained.
Some of the work
Open any result for the story. Clients stay unnamed; Sachin can walk you through any of them.
9 → 2 months
An AI project at a crawl, shipped once the right specialists joined
AI · VoIP, New York
13 → 4 people
Delivering twice as fast, with less overhead
Telehealth · Boston and Denmark
~30%
Budget overrun avoided: every payment tied to a milestone we could check
Virtual events · Saudi Arabia
9 → 2 months · AI · VoIP, New York
A New York based VoIP company had spent nine months on an AI project that was moving at a crawl: self-hosting ASR models and LLMs for transcribing and summarizing calls, to keep costs down at scale. We brought in the right specialists, and it shipped in two months. We also drove the GPU batch-processing optimizations.
13 → 4 people · Telehealth · Boston and Denmark
On a client's telehealth platform, the development team was 13 people across three countries. Over three years we helped bring it down to a remote team of four, by simplifying the architecture and the tech stack, upskilling the team, improving the process, and automating what we could. Less overhead made delivery twice as fast.
~30% · Virtual events · Saudi Arabia
A virtual-events platform, built by six teams in several countries. We sat between the founders and the development teams, turned what users needed into what the teams would build, and tied every payment to a milestone we could check. That kept an estimated 30% cost overrun from ever happening.
How we work
A tech screen first, then full due diligence when the deal warrants it.
The deal, the question, and your timeline, under NDA if you like.
A fixed-scope read, walked through with you and your team.
The code, the team, and the delivery risk, in depth.
A few hours a week, so the first-100-days plan happens.
We talk through the deal, the technical question, and your timeline, under NDA if you like. If a tech screen isn't the honest first step, we'll say so.
A fixed-scope read of the code, the architecture, and the team, on your deal's clock, walked through with you and your team before you commit to anything bigger.
When the deal warrants it: the code, the architecture, the team, and the delivery risk in depth. The bottom line, what we'd negotiate, and what to watch in the first 100 days.
A few hours a week after the deal closes, so the first-100-days plan actually happens.
Ways to start
By the end of it, we'll both know whether there's more to do, and which of the other two options fits.
01 · Start here
$500
The right first step for nearly everyone.
If the screen gives you a clear enough picture, you may not need more. That's a perfectly good outcome.
02 · After the call
$3.5–6K Fixed price, in days
A fixed-scope read of the code, the architecture, and the team, including licensing and running costs. We walk you and your team through what we find on calls.
03 · After the call
$8–20K per deal Before close
Everything the screen covers, in depth, including the delivery risk. We walk you and your team through the bottom line on calls.
Everything you tell us stays confidential. Bring whoever knows the company best.
Because it's working time on your problem, and you get real answers on the call itself. It also covers up to two follow-ups.
Good. Keep them in the room. An independent, senior read protects both the deal and that relationship.
Founders believe their own architecture diagrams. That's optimism, not dishonesty. Our job is to check the diagram against the code, and whether they both match what the target market needs.
Then we'll say so, along with what it would take to fix it. Fixing what's broken is usually easier and better than wholesale replacement. Replacement is the last option.
Access to the code, the task tracker, and the roadmap, and time with the company's leadership and with the people doing the work.
Sachin was building machine learning, computer vision, and audio systems long before any of it was called AI. So we can usually tell quickly what's realistic, and what it will really cost.
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Need one senior person rather than a team? Sachin also works directly as a fractional CTO. Meet Sachin →