Know exactly what you’re running — and what it should cost.
A fixed-price review of your systems, documented in plain English. Yours to keep no matter what you decide next.
Two reasons people book this
Taking stock. You depend on software nobody fully understands anymore. The review maps it, documents it, and tells you what’s fragile — before it tells you.
The second opinion. You’ve been with the same provider for years, the invoices keep coming, and nobody ever checked. We’ll tell you what building and running your systems should cost today. The honest number, not the cheapest one — and sometimes the honest answer is “your provider is fair, stay put.” We say that too.
What you get
Plain-English documentation
What you run, where it lives, and what each part is for — yours to keep, whatever you decide.
A map of what talks to what
How the pieces connect, including the ones nobody documented. Interaction mapping is where the surprises live.
A risk register
What’s fragile, what’s outdated, what’s exposed, in priority order.
The honest-cost opinion
What building and running this should cost today.
A prioritized fix list
One you could hand to anyone — including someone who isn’t us.
AI and automation readiness
Where automation would pay for itself in your systems, and where it wouldn’t. Honest both directions, because everyone else selling AI is selling yes.
The price
Standard System Review — $1,500 flat. Covers up to two applications or systems and up to three integrations, in one production environment. Delivered within ten business days of getting access.
Bigger than that? An Extended Review runs $1,500 to $4,000, quoted flat before anything starts. What moves the price is named below — all ten of them.
Half the fee credits toward your first month of any plan signed within 60 days.
Prices in CAD.
What moves the price
A standard review is a flat $1,500. These are the things that push a review past those bounds — and each one is named in your quote when it applies.
| What we run into | What it means |
|---|---|
| System interactions | Mapping how multiple systems talk to each other, not just what each one is. Interaction mapping is where the surprises live, and it’s slow, careful work. |
| Archaeology | No documentation exists and the original builder is gone or unreachable. The review starts by excavating what the system even is. |
| Hostage access | Code or credentials held by an uncooperative incumbent provider, so recovery and diplomacy come before review. |
| Legacy stacks | Platforms old enough to need special environments just to run and read safely. |
| On-premise or hybrid infrastructure | Anything we can’t reach with a cloud credential: site specifics, VPNs, hardware in a closet. |
| Data depth | Large or messy databases that need profiling before an honest cost answer exists. |
| Hub deployments | Multi-location or multi-tenant systems where each spoke has drifted from the pattern, so one review is quietly several. |
| Compliance overlay | Payment, health, or privacy-regulated data that constrains how we’re even allowed to look. |
| A moving target | The system is actively unstable or mid-incident while being reviewed. |
| Third-party coordination | The review depends on interviews with vendors who take a week to answer an email. |
Every factor that raises the quote gets named in the quote, in plain language. The price is never a mystery.
How it works
Talk first
The free conversation and a short questionnaire, so the review starts informed.
Access
You grant credentials, the clock starts.
The work
Our review pipeline does the heavy analysis, and a thirty-year builder does the digging, the judgment, and the findings only experience catches.
The report
Delivered within ten business days, walked through together, yours forever.
Mike is always truthful to everyone.
What’s in the report — a sample table of contents
- What you run and where it lives
- How it all connects
- Who has access to what
- What’s out of date, what’s fragile, what’s exposed
- What this should cost to run
- Where automation or AI would pay for itself — and where it wouldn’t
- The fix list, in order
Questions people actually ask
No — this is a review, not a repair. Fixes, migrations, and deep security testing are their own work, quoted separately. The fix list tells you exactly what they’d be, in order, so you can price them with us or with anyone else.
Then you’ll know it, in writing, with documentation to prove it — and you’ll have spent $1,500 to stop wondering. We’ve told people to stay put before. We’ll tell you.
The fix list is written so anyone can act on it — your team, another provider, or us. That’s deliberate. A recommendation you can only buy from the recommender isn’t advice, it’s a pitch.
Access and credentials within five business days of kickoff, one interview with whoever knows the systems best, and written answers to a short list of questions after it. That’s the whole ask.
Not sure the review is what you need? Ask first — the conversation is free and the answer will be straight.