The offer
Engineering diagnosis. 3 weeks, EUR 9 500, written report.
Three weeks inside your engineering organisation. You get a report the board can read, a plan with numbers attached, and a recommendation that may not include me. It ends there if you want it to.
What happens in the 3 weeks
| Week | Work |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Delivery data, the cloud and supplier bills, the org chart against the roadmap. Interviews with the founder or owner, the engineering leads, and the people everyone mentions. |
| Week 2 | The deep dive where week 1 pointed: the platform and its cost, the teams that ship against the teams that meet, the contracts nobody has reread. |
| Week 3 | The written report, the plan, and a working session to walk the leadership through both. |
About 8 to 10 working days of my time in total, remote-first, on site where the situation asks for it.
What you get
- A written report. Where delivery, cost, and structure actually stand, in plain language, backed by the delivery data rather than opinions collected in meetings.
- A plan. What to change, in what order, who owns each step, and what each step is worth in euros. Short enough to execute, specific enough to check.
- A recommendation. Sometimes that is a longer engagement. Roughly a third of the time it is not, and the report says so. It is written so that anyone competent can execute it without me.
What it costs
EUR 9 500, fixed, agreed before the work starts. No day-rate meter, no scope creep clause, no follow-up obligation. If the diagnosis leads to a longer engagement, the rates for that are discussed then, on the published bands.
Who it is for
Founders, CEOs and owners of companies with 5 to 120 people in and around software, where something is off: delivery slipped, the team feels too big for what ships, the platform bill grows faster than revenue, or a supplier or lead developer has become a single point of trust. If you recognise the situations in the case studies, this is the entry point.
Frequently asked
What does an engineering diagnosis cost?
EUR 9 500, fixed. That covers 3 weeks, about 8 to 10 working days of work, and ends with a written report and a plan. The price is agreed before the work starts and does not move.
What do you get from a 3-week engineering diagnosis?
A written report on where delivery, cost, and structure actually stand, backed by the delivery data. A plan with owners, numbers and a sequence. A recommendation that may not include further work by the person who wrote it.
Does the diagnosis commit you to a longer engagement?
No. The diagnosis ends with the report. Roughly a third of diagnoses end there: the plan is executed in-house or the recommendation is to change nothing structural. The report is written so that anyone competent can execute it.
The intro call stays free and stays 15 minutes. The diagnosis starts only when the scope is written down and both sides have signed it. Buying or investing rather than running? That is technical due diligence, a separate service.