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Fixed-Scope Engagement · Fractional CTO

Architecture & Risk Audit

Dostal Technology
Mathew Dostal  ·  Fractional CTO & Principal Architect
15 years auditing & architecting systems — startups to Fortune 500 (Hertz, Wayfair, Costco, EY)
A fixed-scope, board-ready read on where your architecture is quietly costing you — capital, margin, security, or velocity — and a prioritized plan to fix it. An independent set of senior eyes your own team can't be, delivered before the questions get asked in a board room or a diligence call.

What it covers

  • Architecture & scalability — single points of failure, growth bottlenecks, what breaks at the next stage
  • Security & data exposure — access, data handling, and the gaps that surface at the worst time
  • Cloud cost & infrastructure — billing bleeds, over-provisioning, cost-per-unit reality
  • Engineering velocity & tech debt — what's actually slowing the team (usually architecture, not people)
  • Delivery & key-person risk — process, bus-factor, and where execution is fragile
  • AI & data readiness — where LLM/agentic leverage — or risk — actually sits

What you get

  • Severity-ranked report — findings prioritized by business impact, written for the board, not the engineers
  • 90-day roadmap — sequenced, effort-vs-impact, so you know what to fix first and why
  • Live readout — a working session to walk it through and pressure-test the plan
$4,500fixed scope
100% credited toward a retainer if we move forward — so the audit de-risks the decision, not just informs it.
No lock-in. You keep the report either way.
01Scope & accessShort kickoff; read-only access to code, infra, and cloud billing.
02Audit — ~2 weeksI dig in, quantify the risks, and rank by business impact.
03Report & readoutBoard-ready report + 90-day roadmap, walked through live.
Ready to see what your team is too close to see?
Book a 20-min scoping call → book.mdostal.com
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