Outsourcing, code review and documentation.
We work as an external engineering team for companies that already have developers: we review the code, document the system, and add capacity where it is needed.
An external team, on your side of the table
Not every company needs a supplier to build the whole thing. Some already have developers and need an experienced outside view: whether the architecture will hold, whether the code can be maintained by someone new, and whether the documentation would survive the departure of a key engineer.
We do that work as an independent party. We are not competing with your team for credit, and we do not recommend a rewrite unless the evidence supports one.
What we deliver
Code review
A structured read of the codebase: structure, dependencies, test coverage, security, performance and the specific places where change is expensive. Findings are ranked by risk and effort, not by taste.
Documentation
Architecture diagrams, data model, integration inventory, environment and deployment runbooks, and a written onboarding guide. The material that lets a new developer be useful in a week rather than a quarter.
Team augmentation
Our engineers working inside your process, your repository and your stand-ups, for a defined period. You keep ownership and direction; we add capacity in .NET, Azure or the front end.
When companies call us
Before an acquisition
Technical due diligence on the asset being bought or sold, written for people who are not engineers.
A key engineer is leaving
Capture what is only in one person's head before the handover window closes.
Delivery has slowed down
An outside view on why small changes now take weeks, and what would make the difference.
Before an audit or certification
Evidence of secure development practice, dependency hygiene and documented process.
Inheriting an outside build
A supplier has finished or gone quiet, and you need to know what you actually own.
A short-term capacity gap
A deadline, a parental leave or a migration that needs two more pairs of hands for a quarter.
How a review runs
Access and context
Read access to the repository and a one-hour conversation with whoever knows the system best. An NDA is signed before anything is shared.
Static and manual analysis
Automated scans for dependencies, vulnerabilities and duplication, followed by a manual read of the parts that matter: the domain model, the integrations and the hot paths.
Written report
Findings ranked by risk and by effort to fix, each with a concrete recommendation. Written so that a non-technical director can read the summary and an engineer can act on the detail.
Walkthrough with your team
A session with your developers to go through the findings, as colleagues, not as an inspection. Your team keeps the report.
Frequently asked
1. How long does a code review take?
A focused review of a single application is one to two weeks, at a fixed price. A larger estate is scoped after a short call, and we will tell you if a lighter review would answer your question just as well.
2. Will this undermine our own developers?
No. We involve them from the first hour, we report on the system rather than on individuals, and we present findings to the team rather than only to management. In practice they usually already know the biggest problems and welcome having them written down.
3. Do you work under our NDA and our process?
Yes. We sign your NDA before access, and for augmentation work we use your repository, your board, your branching model and your definition of done. We do not impose our own process on your team.
4. Can you fix what you find?
We can, but the review is priced and delivered independently of any remedial work, so the findings are not a sales document. Many clients take the report and act on it with their own team, which is a perfectly good outcome.