Process · Jun 23, 2026 · 2 min read
How we scope a free 15–30 minute working session
Fifteen to thirty minutes is not enough to review a whole codebase. It is enough to learn whether your biggest risk is technical, organizational, or somewhere in between.
A short working session is not enough time to review a codebase in depth, and we do not pretend it is. It is enough for triage: finding out whether the issue keeping a founder or CTO up at night is actually the biggest risk on the platform.
We ask before we look
The session starts with questions, not a screen share: what broke last, what's slow, what the team is afraid to touch. Where the team is afraid to touch something is almost always where the real risk lives.
One clear read, not a fifty-item report
The output is a short, specific read on where the platform actually stands, not a long checklist that reads the same for every company we've ever looked at.
No pitch attached
The session isn't a sales call with extra steps. Plenty of teams take the findings and act on them with their own engineers, and that's a fine outcome. The ones who ask us to help usually do because the conversation itself was useful, not because we asked them to.
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