01
Readiness verdict
An evidence-based view of launch blockers, accepted risks, and conditions for proceeding.
Production readiness review
Pressure-test architecture, delivery, observability, security boundaries, recovery, capacity, and ownership before customers find the missing pieces.
Review the launchThe signal
Production-ready means the team can detect failure, contain it, recover deliberately, and explain who owns the next move.
When to call
A critical launch date is fixed while operational ownership remains vague.
Load tests prove throughput but not degradation, dependency failure, or recovery.
Dashboards exist without actionable alerts, service objectives, or escalation paths.
Rollback depends on data assumptions or manual steps nobody has rehearsed.
What changes
01
An evidence-based view of launch blockers, accepted risks, and conditions for proceeding.
02
Validated detection, containment, rollback, recovery, and communication paths.
03
Named ownership for runtime, dependencies, data, incidents, and launch decisions.
The engagement
Senior engineers stay on the work from first signal through operational handoff.
Review architecture, changes, dependencies, data movement, telemetry, and runbooks.
Exercise representative failure, capacity, rollback, and degraded-mode scenarios.
Separate launch blockers from explicit risk decisions and assign every action an owner.
Start with the failure mode
One call. Senior engineers. No discovery theater. We will tell you what we see, what we would attack first, and whether we are the right crew to do it.