Software Architecture Audit
Technical Roadmap & Architecture Audit
Review your systems, workflows, and integration risks. Get a written technical roadmap to plan development and compare implementation proposals.
Sample scope in English
An evidence-backed review with a defined boundary
You need to understand risk, maintainability or one critical workflow in an existing application before authorizing changes.
Choose a prototype when the primary uncertainty is a new user journey, rather than the system you already have.Compare the options
What you receive
- Reviewed asset list, system/data-flow map and evidence gaps.
- Prioritized findings with observed evidence, impact and next action.
- A review meeting and report acceptance criteria agreed for the selected boundary.
What to prepare
- Source/environment access or explicit limits if unavailable.
- System owner, relevant users and safe redacted records.
- One decision to support and the people who will review the findings.
Agreed separately
- The one-workflow review is a bounded audit starting scope, not an unlimited system audit.
- Implementation/remediation and further discovery require a separate agreement.
- Any fee credit requires the applicable signed scope and credit conditions.
See a sample
Illustrative finding structure: boundary → observed evidence → business impact → unresolved evidence → recommended action → owner. A sample report is not a claim of an observed failure in a customer system.
Acceptance example. Every finding identifies its evidence and uncertainty. The report distinguishes verified behavior from assumptions and states which assets or production conditions were not reviewed.
Read the sample scope, acceptance and handover recordsCan you review without production access?
Agree the permitted source, documentation and staging evidence. Findings must state limitations. Do not infer production reliability from a source-only review.
Is remediation included?
The audit produces agreed findings and recommendations. Fixes, implementation capacity and credit conditions require their own accepted scope.
Optional scoped discovery
Review One Business Workflow Before You Build
Choose one workflow with a clear starting point and outcome, such as payment to document delivery, enquiry to quotation, or approval to fulfilment. We agree the systems and decisions in scope before starting.
Discovery reference fee: CN¥6,000
The existing discovery fee applies to an agreed scope. Your proposal confirms the work, access, timing, and any credit toward a later build. Discovery is optional when requirements are already clear.
What We Need From You
- The workflow owner, users, desired outcome, and known failure cases.
- A walkthrough, available system documentation, and relevant sample data with sensitive details removed.
- Read-only access or agreed evidence for the systems in scope, plus business constraints and open decisions.
What You Receive
- A workflow and system-boundary map showing ownership, dependencies, and evidence gaps.
- Prioritised findings linked to the available evidence, with impact, recommended action, and unresolved questions.
- An implementation scope with acceptance criteria, dependencies, exclusions, and the next decisions needed for a proposal.
Illustrative Deliverables: ResumeForU
This example uses our own product to show the form of a review. It is not a client report or a claim that these issues occurred in production.
- Map purchase verification, resume-version capture, generation, preview, and download as separate steps.
- Record evidence for how generation failure preserves purchase rights, and identify any recovery behavior still needing validation.
- Define acceptance scenarios for a paid customer retrying a failed export without another purchase.
Scope Boundaries
One agreed workflow, not an unrestricted audit of the whole business. Implementation, production changes, coded prototypes, penetration testing, legal certification, and ongoing support need separate scopes. Timing depends on access, evidence, and stakeholder availability.
Three Risks to Review Before You Build
Unclear System Boundaries
Document which systems own each record, how they exchange data, and what happens when an integration fails. Identify constraints that need a prototype or further investigation.
Unclear Data Responsibilities
Map access, storage, retention, and third-party data flows. Record security requirements and questions for your legal or compliance advisor. A technical blueprint does not certify compliance.
Unpriced Scope Changes
Agree deliverables, exclusions, dependencies, and acceptance criteria. Document how a changed requirement affects the estimate before implementation starts.
A Blueprint Your Team Can Use
A written record of architecture decisions, scope, assumptions, and open questions, ready for your team or another supplier.
A system diagram and data-flow map showing proposed components, record ownership, integration boundaries, and the API contracts that need validation.
A record of user roles, access boundaries, sensitive data flows, and technical controls to evaluate during implementation. Legal interpretation and independent certification require separate specialists.
Technology options assessed against your existing systems, team capabilities, and workload. Infrastructure estimates state expected usage and assumptions so they can be revised as requirements change.
A phased backlog with dependencies, acceptance criteria, and unresolved questions. Separate the first usable release from later work and identify what needs discovery before a firm quote.
From Requirements to a Roadmap
Scope the Review (Days 1–2)
Review business workflows, users, expected workload, and existing systems with the people responsible for the outcome. Agree the audit scope and required access.
Review Systems & Assets (Days 3–5)
Inspect the documentation, interfaces, and technical assets made available for the review. Record integration risks and evidence gaps rather than assuming undocumented behavior.
Design the Approach (Days 6–8)
Develop architecture options, data boundaries, and a phased scope. Identify technical decisions that need a prototype or specialist review before implementation.
Present the Blueprint (Days 9–10)
Walk through the blueprint, assumptions, risks, and open decisions with your team. Hand over the agreed documentation and prioritized next steps.
Discovery Counts Once
Pay for the audit as a standalone service, or apply the agreed credit toward a Nodesify build. Your proposal shows how the fee counts once within the total project price.
Frequently Asked Questions
Plan Your Next Software Investment
Discuss the decisions your audit needs to support and the systems we should review.