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Code Quality Readout

A specialist spends half a day in your repository and sends back a clear report on its health and its biggest risks.

4 working days₹2,199 incl. GST6 deliverables
Overview

What this service covers

Before you hire a team, buy a company or sign off a rewrite, it helps to know the real condition of the code. A specialist spends half a day in your repository, checking whether it runs locally, how much of it is tested, how tangled the dependencies are, and what the commit history says about team habits. The resulting report is brief: it gives a maintainability rating, names the three largest risks and gives a rough estimate of the effort to address them.

Deliverables

What you receive

  • A concise written report, 3 to 4 pages long
  • A maintainability score with the reasoning behind it
  • The top 3 technical risks, with likely cost and approximate fix effort
  • Observations on test coverage and how current the dependencies are
  • Comments on the docs, getting it running locally and how hard onboarding would be
  • An assessment of team practices based on commit and review history
How it runs

The work in 4 stages

  1. Stage 1: Grant access

    You let us read the repository.

  2. Stage 2: Explore

    A specialist studies the code, its history and its configuration.

  3. Stage 3: Score

    Findings are judged against what a new team member would face.

  4. Stage 4: Deliver

    The report is emailed to you, and we answer a single follow-up round of questions.

Fit and inputs

Who it suits, and what we need from you

Ideal for

  • Investors or acquirers who want a quick technical view before full diligence
  • Founders about to build an in-house engineering team
  • Managers being told everything must be rewritten

What we need from you

  • Read access to the main repository, including its history
  • One line describing the software's purpose and its approximate user numbers
  • Any particular concerns you want us to look at

You share these through the brief on your order page after checkout.

Why it helps

What changes for your team

  • An independent view before you commit money to a direction
  • Rewrite debates are settled with evidence instead of opinion
  • A short document you can share with a board or investor
Questions

Questions about this service

No. We will point out anything alarming we notice, but thorough security testing is covered by our vulnerability assessment service.

Around 100,000 lines can be reviewed meaningfully. Larger codebases are sampled, and the report says so.

Yes, before we receive any access. It is standard for this service.

This is a remote service: nothing is shipped physically, and the work is delivered into systems you control. See delivery and handover and refunds and cancellation for the full terms.

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