BP Brian PhillipsAutonomous CTO

The independent first step

Buy clarity before you buy more development.

In two to three weeks, leadership receives an evidence-backed explanation of what the company owns, what is risky, what is unclear, and what to do during the next 90 days.

Fee
$12,500
Duration
2–3 weeks
Mode
Independent
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01 / Why this starts here

The next technical decision should not depend on another opinion.

A stalled product usually comes with several competing stories. The vendor has one. The internal team has another. The budget says something else.

The audit turns those stories into a decision record. Material findings identify the claim, evidence source, business consequence, confidence, recommended action, owner, and timing. Leadership can then decide whether to stabilize, rebuild, change providers, pause, or proceed.

Ownership
Repositories, cloud accounts, domains, signing identities, credentials, payment methods, and decision rights.
Delivery
What was supposed to ship, what can be verified, how work reaches production, and how failure is handled.
Risk
Single points of failure, access gaps, fragile release paths, security exposure, vendor dependence, and continuity threats.
Cost visibility
Agency, infrastructure, tooling, and rework costs that affect the real delivery run-rate.

02 / What leadership receives

A usable operating decision, not a slide deck of observations.

  1. Executive risk briefing

    A plain-English account of the most material business exposure, what requires immediate action, and what can wait.

  2. Ownership and access map

    A record of critical systems, company control, outside dependencies, missing access, and named owners.

  3. Technical and delivery findings

    Evidence-backed findings across repositories, infrastructure, releases, monitoring, continuity, vendor obligations, and operating practice.

  4. Prioritized 90-day roadmap

    Sequenced actions with dependencies, owners, timing, and the decisions required before implementation.

  5. Options for what comes next

    Implementation paths are presented only when supported by the findings. You are not obligated to hire me for the next phase.

03 / The process

Three weeks, organized around decisions.

  1. Days 1–3

    Access and obligations

    Confirm the questions leadership needs answered. Inventory accounts, repositories, vendors, commitments, and available evidence.

  2. Week 1

    Establish the system record

    Trace how the product is built, deployed, monitored, funded, and controlled. Record evidence gaps rather than filling them with assumptions.

  3. Week 2

    Test the operating claims

    Compare stated process with observable reality. Rank findings by business consequence, urgency, and confidence.

  4. Week 3

    Decide the next 90 days

    Deliver the executive readout, risk register, ownership map, and roadmap. Separate immediate protection from longer-term improvement.

04 / Scope boundaries

Independent by design.

The audit is designed to clarify the decision without quietly turning discovery into an open-ended build.

Included

  • Repository, delivery, account, access, infrastructure, and vendor inventory
  • Ownership and continuity assessment
  • Risk register and cost visibility review
  • Executive readout and prioritized 90-day roadmap

Not included

  • Production changes or credential rotation
  • Penetration testing, legal opinions, or financial audits
  • Vendor termination or dispute representation
  • Guaranteed recovery of missing systems or access

05 / Common questions

What to know before the audit.

Is this an exhaustive source-code review?

No. It is a business-facing assessment of ownership, delivery, infrastructure, access, vendor dependence, risk, cost visibility, and continuity. Source code is examined where it supports a material finding, but the engagement is not an exhaustive code review or penetration test.

Does the audit require changing production systems?

No. The audit is read-only by default. Production changes, credential rotation, vendor termination, and destructive operations are outside scope unless separately authorized after the findings are understood.

Do we have to hire you for implementation afterward?

No. The audit stands on its own. Leadership receives an evidence-backed decision record and a prioritized 90-day roadmap that can be used with me, an internal team, or another qualified provider.

What access is needed?

The exact access list depends on the product, but typically includes read access to repositories, cloud and hosting environments, deployment workflows, monitoring, vendor agreements or statements of work, account inventories, and relevant operating documentation.

Can the audit guarantee a vendor-failure finding or recover missing access?

No. Findings remain independent. The audit does not promise a particular conclusion, legal opinion, recovery of missing systems, or a guaranteed business outcome.

Start with the smallest safe decision

If leadership cannot verify delivery, establish the record now.

Send the product, current team or vendor structure, approximate delivery run-rate, and the question no one can answer clearly.

Request the audit