QAi / Architecture Due Diligence
QAi Architecture Due Diligence
A technical opinion on whether the architecture underneath the product can actually support growth. This is an engineering-first review built for the team building the product: a lighter, faster counterpart to the QAi Verification Badge, which is the formal, scored audit and credential funds and acquirers treat as independent evidence.
Architecture Due Diligence answers a question founders usually can't answer objectively about their own system: will this actually hold up once usage goes from a few dozen friendly users to thousands of paying customers. It's commissioned by the team itself, to walk into a raise, a board meeting, or a scaling decision with an outside engineering opinion in hand, not just internal confidence.
The review goes past the pitch-deck architecture diagram and into the code, the data pipeline, and the operational reality: what happens under load, what breaks first, what was built as a shortcut that's now load-bearing, and what it will actually cost to run at ten times the current scale.
Where it sits in the methodology
Scope of this engagement
Weighted toward Architecture and Operational Maturity, with a supporting pass on Data & Corpus and unit economics.
Layers examined
Signs it's time for this
- You're preparing to raise and expect technical questions you want to have already answered
- An investor has asked for technical diligence, or you'd rather bring your own before they commission theirs
- Your beta users are about to become paying customers and nobody has stress-tested what that means operationally
- The engineering team has grown past the people who originally built the architecture
How it runs
Step by step
- Kickoff with the founding or engineering team to understand intent, not just implementation
- Architecture walkthrough and code-level review of the core system
- Scale-risk stress questions: what breaks first, and at what usage level
- Technical debt mapping across the codebase and infrastructure
- Unit economics review: what it actually costs to serve the next customer
- A prioritized roadmap, ranked by what actually blocks scale
How this compares
Architecture Due Diligence is commissioned by the company for itself, and stays an internal engineering opinion, faster and lighter than the QAi Verification Badge, which is the formal, scored version built specifically to be shown to investors, banks, or acquirers as independent evidence.
What you receive
- Independent architecture opinion
- Scale-risk assessment
- Technical debt mapping
- Unit economics review
- A prioritized roadmap
Investment
$8,000 – $15,000
Common questions
About this engagement
Is this the same as investor-led technical diligence?
Similar spirit, different commissioning party. This is diligence you run on yourself, on your own timeline, so you already know the answer before an investor asks the question.
How is this different from the Verification Badge?
Depth and audience. Architecture Due Diligence is a faster, engineering-first opinion for your own team. The Verification Badge is the heavier, formally scored version, built to be handed to a fund, bank, or acquirer as independent evidence, not just an internal read.
Do you need production access?
Typically yes, alongside a code walkthrough and a conversation with whoever owns the architecture; read-only access is sufficient.
Ready to scope it?
Tell us where the project stands and we'll confirm this is the right fit.