Fixed-Scope • 10 Business Days • Zero Disruption to Active Sprints
Uncover the Architectural Bottlenecks Stalling Your Engineering Velocity.
An unvarnished, executive-level technical audit for venture-backed founders and engineering leaders. In 10 days, get an objective scorecard of your core failure points and a battle-tested 90-day remediation roadmap—without freezing product delivery or committing to expensive ground-up rewrites.
Intake is limited to 2 audits per month to maintain executive focus.
Is Your Codebase Resisting Your Roadmap?
As software products grow from initial MVP to market traction, early architectural shortcuts compound into high-interest technical debt. What used to be an agile, fast-shipping team suddenly grinds to a halt.
If your leadership team is experiencing any of these symptoms, your problem is structural:
Brittle Deployments: Every production push feels like defusing a bomb. Bug fixes in one module quietly break unrelated services elsewhere in the application.
The Escalating “Maintenance Tax”: Over 50% of your engineering payroll is consumed firefighting regressions, patching database locks, and handling customer escalations rather than building new ARR-generating features.
The “Ground-Up Rewrite” Mirage: Frustrated developers insist the only solution is to discard the system and spend 6–9 months rebuilding from scratch—freezing customer-facing progress while your competitors take market share.
Silent Churn from Latency: High API response times, sluggish dashboards, and intermittent timeouts cause drop-offs at critical conversion and renewal milestones.
Imminent Technical Due Diligence: You are preparing for an institutional funding round or enterprise pilot, but you know your architecture, security posture, and documentation won’t survive rigorous third-party scrutiny.
Concrete Deliverables, Not Vague Observations
We do not hand you a generic 80-page automated linter export. You receive pragmatic, executive-level strategic deliverables designed for both boardroom clarity and engineering execution.
Deliverable 1:
The Architecture Risk & Latency Scorecard
An unvarnished, 1-page executive dashboard that translates technical risks directly into business impact:
- Critical failure points that threaten uptime, data integrity, and compliance.
- Query latency bottlenecks and database lock conditions choking transaction throughput.
- Tight coupling dependencies that slow down release cycles.
- Objective risk ratings: P0 (Immediate Threat), P1 (Scale Blocker), and P2 (Operational Friction).
Deliverable 2:
The Prioritized 90-Day Remediation Roadmap
A staged, non-disruptive execution plan built to be delivered alongside your existing product sprints:
Phase 1 (Days 1–14): Zero-Cost Quick Wins. Immediate query optimizations, indexing corrections, and config patches that yield instant performance gains.
Phase 2 (Days 15–45): Core Decoupling. Step-by-step modularization boundaries and API contracts to isolate high-risk domains without breaking the monolith.
Phase 3 (Days 46–90): Scalability & Delivery Guardrails. Automated testing gates, CI/CD pipeline stabilization, and telemetry instrumentation for long-term health.
Deliverable 3:
The "Rewrite vs. Refactor" Financial Verdict
A definitive architectural and economic evaluation:
Is a rewrite actually justified, or will an incremental, domain-driven refactor save your business months of wasted runway?
Clear risk metrics and expected engineering ROI for both paths.
A Non-Invasive, Structured 10-Day Review
Your engineering team has features to ship. This audit is conducted asynchronously with minimal demands on your team’s calendar (under 3 hours of total team involvement).
Days 1–2
Ingestion & Business Alignment
We conduct a 60-minute kickoff with founders/tech leadership to align on commercial goals, revenue risks, and chronic bottlenecks. Secure, read-only access is granted to repositories, APM, and cloud topology.
Team Commitment – 60 mins (Leadership)
Days 3–6
Deep Technical & Structural Audit
Independent, deep-dive examination of codebase health, data models, schema bottlenecks, API latency, monolith boundaries, and CI/CD pipelines.
0 mins (Offline)
Days 7–8
Engineering Reality Check
Two targeted 45-minute confidential interviews with your Lead Architect and Senior Engineers to identify deployment friction, tool fatigue, and undocumented system dependencies.
90 mins (Total Dev Leads)
Days 9–10
Synthesis & Executive Readout
Preparation of the Scorecard and 90-Day Roadmap. We host a 60-minute live presentation with leadership and tech leads to deliver findings, answer questions, and align the team on the path forward.
60 mins (Joint)
Led Directly by a Veteran Enterprise Systems Architect
This diagnostic is never delegated to junior analysts or outsourced developers. Every line of review and strategic synthesis is conducted personally by Ravi Sunkadakatte:
25+ years of hands-on software engineering and systems architecture experience.
CTO who has built, scaled, and rescued mission-critical systems across distributed Java enterprise ecosystems, cloud-native microservices, and modern AI orchestration frameworks.
A seasoned practitioner who translates technical debt into balance-sheet terms for founders and investors, while retaining the deep technical fluency to debate database locking mechanics and modular boundaries with senior engineers.
Structured Diagnostic Packages
No hourly billing ambiguity. No open-ended scope creep.
Standard Diagnostic Fee
For businesses facing a specific operational bottleneck or cash pinch.
$
₹1,50,000 + GST (India) / $2,500 USD (Global)
(Flat Fee)
The Retainer Credit-Back - If you retain Fractional CTO governance or contract an Aaruni implementation sprint to execute the roadmap within 30 days, 50% of this fee (₹75,000 / $1,250) is credited back against your invoice.
Turnaround - 10 Business Days from intake kickoff to final readout.
Billing Terms - 100% upfront upon SOW execution, prior to codebase access.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Will this audit disrupt our current sprint deliverables?
No. Your developers do not stop coding. We require read-only access to repositories and APM tools, followed by two 45-minute structured interviews with key technical leads. Total disruption across your entire engineering team is under 3 hours.
What if our codebase is proprietary and confidential?
We sign a mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) before any credentials, documentation, or code access are shared. All reviews are conducted in secure, isolated environments, and no proprietary code is retained after delivery.
What tech stacks do you cover?
The diagnostic covers modern distributed architectures, high-load backends, and cloud systems, with deep domain expertise in Java Enterprise/Spring Boot, microservices, relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL), cloud infrastructures (AWS/GCP), and modern API architectures.
What happens after Day 10?
The final deliverables are yours to keep. You can:
Hand the roadmap to your internal team to execute independently.
Engage Ravi as a Fractional CTO (10–15 hrs/week) to govern execution and coach your leads.
Contract Aaruni Technology Solutions to deploy a dedicated sprint team to refactor critical bottlenecks under Ravi's direct oversight.
Stop Burning Sprint Cycles on Unnecessary Rework.
Book an initial 20-minute qualification call to discuss your current architectural bottlenecks and confirm whether this 10-day diagnostic is the right fit for your platform.
Strictly qualification and scoping. Zero free-consulting fluff, zero high-pressure sales.
