Independent - honest - actionable
Your independent DevOps Status Report
An honest, outside read on where your DevOps stands today, with a clear, prioritized plan to improve it, and two live sessions with your team lead. 250 EUR, delivered in 1-2 weeks.
What the report covers
Included
Six DevOps dimensions, scored 1-5:
- +CI/CD pipeline: build, test, deploy automation and reliability
- +Infrastructure & IaC: how infra is provisioned and reproduced
- +Release & environments: deployment flow, parity, rollback
- +Observability: logging, metrics, alerting, incident visibility
- +Security & secrets: secrets handling, access, dependency hygiene
- +Testing & quality: automated checks and gates in the pipeline
+AI in your engineering — a dedicated section on AI governance, security, and optimal usage (see below).
Not included
- -No penetration test or formal security audit
- -No source-code audit or code review
- -No implementation or hands-on changes
- -No compliance certification (SOC2, ISO, ...)
AI in your engineering
A straight read on how your team uses AI: is it governed, is it safe, and is it actually paying off? Kept as its own section, not buried in a score, because for most CTOs right now this is the highest-leverage question.
Governance
Which AI tools your team actually uses, whether there's a usage policy, whether AI-generated code is reviewed and tested to the same bar, and the IP and licensing status of what those tools produce.
Security
Secrets and customer data ending up in prompts, which tools train on your inputs, personal vs. business tenancy, AI-suggested supply-chain risk, and prompt-injection exposure if you ship AI features.
Usage & leverage
Where AI genuinely saves your team time today, where it quietly adds risk or rework, and a few concrete, low-risk ways to get more out of it for your stack.
How it works
Intake
You fill the short form below with the initial details about your team and setup (about 2 minutes).
Kickoff call
We schedule your included 45-minute call so I can get the full context: your stack, workflow, and what you want out of the report.
Assess
I assess across the six dimensions plus AI, at your access level, following up by email or a quick call whenever a detail needs clarifying.
Report
You get your 6-10 page PDF: maturity snapshot, the AI read, findings, quick wins, and a 90-day plan.
Closing session
A second included 45-minute call to walk you through the roadmap, agree the priorities, and answer questions. Deeper sessions on request.
250 EUR
fixed, per solution (one codebase, pipeline + its infra)
Includes the PDF report and two 45-minute sessions with your team or tech lead: a kickoff call and a closing roadmap walkthrough. Deeper sessions on request.
More than one product? Ask for a bundle. Need more depth (security, QA, or hands-on implementation)? Ask for a quote.
I take a maximum of 3 projects at a time and personally produce every report, so each client gets my full attention.
Questions tech leads ask
Is this an audit? Are you grading my team?+
No. It is an independent, honest read on where your DevOps stands today, plus a prioritized plan to improve it. It is written to help a busy team move faster and safer, not to judge anyone.
Will it disrupt my team's work?+
No. Your time commitment is a short questionnaire and two 45-minute sessions with you as the lead: a kickoff call and a closing walkthrough. I do not pull your engineers into a drawn-out audit.
Do you need access to our code and infrastructure?+
You choose. Level (a) needs no system access at all and still produces a useful report. Levels (b) and (c) add read-only repo/CI access or an infra walkthrough for a sharper read. Access is least-privilege and read-only wherever possible.
How do you protect our data and IP? Do you sign an NDA?+
Yes. I sign your NDA, or provide a short mutual one, before any access or sensitive details are shared, and I sign any other legal documents you require. Credentials are never stored, and access is revoked and data deleted after delivery.
What exactly do we receive?+
A 6-10 page PDF: a maturity snapshot across the six dimensions, a dedicated read on AI in your engineering (governance, security, and leverage), findings ranked by impact, quick wins, and a 90-day improvement roadmap, plus two included 45-minute sessions with your team or tech lead: a kickoff call and a closing roadmap walkthrough.
Can this help with a security or compliance audit?+
It is not a formal audit and does not replace one, and it is not a certification. But because it checks your setup against the same engineering best practices a security or compliance audit examines, it surfaces most of the technical gaps a formal audit would flag. It is a fast, low-cost way to see where you would stand and fix the obvious issues before a formal SOC2 or ISO audit.
What if we have more than one product, or want help implementing?+
The 250 EUR covers one solution. More than one product? Ask for a bundle. Want hands-on help implementing the roadmap, or a deeper security or QA session? Ask for a quote.
Are we locked into anything afterward?+
No lock-in. You own the report and can act on it entirely on your own. If you would like help implementing it, that is a separate, optional engagement.