Product promise
Target user, value, critical journeys, product decisions, evidence, and the gaps between the stated promise and the operating product.
01 · Product & Platform Readiness Review
Know what is ready, what is fragile, and what to fix next.
For founders, CEOs, COOs, managing partners, and product leaders who need technology, product, vendor, and business priorities to agree before the next major commitment.
When it helps · 01
The next decision needs a wider view.
A review is useful when the team has plenty of activity but no trusted sequence across product, engineering, trust, and operations.
- A launch, major release, investment decision, acquisition, or handoff is approaching.
- Reliability, recovery, security, support burden, or cost concerns are accumulating.
- Product and engineering priorities no longer agree on what matters first.
- An inherited or agency-built system is difficult to evaluate, change, or budget.
- AI, hiring, migration, or vendor decisions are moving faster than the evidence behind them.
- Leadership needs an independent sequence—not another unranked backlog.
What is examined · 02
The visible product and the system beneath it.
The review follows the critical product path across the layers that can support it, distort it, or cause it to fail.
Platform boundaries
Architecture, data, integrations, identity, permissions, sensitive paths, failure handling, and recovery assumptions.
Operating reality
Deployment, observability, support burden, reliability, security, vendor and AI-tool dependence, and the cost of keeping the system running.
What you receive · 03
A clear brief for the next decision.
The output is designed to help leadership choose, sequence, and act—with the evidence boundary left visible.
- 01
Executive decision brief
What to fund, repair, validate, delegate, defer, or stop—and why the evidence supports that sequence.
- 02
System and evidence map
How the customer path, workflows, vendors, data, and technology connect, with verified facts separated from assumptions and unknowns.
- 03
Ranked register and 90-day roadmap
Material risks and opportunities ordered by consequence, dependency, owner type, budget range, and the evidence each action should produce.
- 04
Executive readout
A direct discussion of tradeoffs, the next irreversible decision, and one consolidated clarification round after delivery.
Clear commercial boundary · 04
Choose the evidence depth the decision requires.
The starting scope is explicit. Follow-on work is never assumed and is priced separately only after leadership accepts the priority and completion gate.
Executive Review · $3,500
Ten business days. One sponsor kickoff, up to three stakeholder interviews, up to 12 core artifacts, a decision brief, system map, ranked register, 90-day roadmap, and executive readout. No repository or cloud-console access.
Deep Review · $7,500
15 business days. Adds bounded read-only evidence across up to two code repositories, one primary cloud environment, delivery workflow, observability, access controls, testing posture, dependencies, and major cost drivers.
After the review
Approved workstreams can become a $5,000–$15,000 implementation sprint or a separately scoped $4,000–$8,000 monthly fractional CTO partnership. Neither path is required.
Evidence behind the approach · 05
Responsibility stays visible.
At Micr, I connect product direction, UX, architecture, infrastructure, reliability, recovery, security, and operating cost across an active product, while directing a 10-person external engineering team. The public case study shows the decisions and systems I directly own without turning unfinished outcomes into invented metrics.
Read the Micr case study