Modernization Assessment
Know where change is safe before you start.
This assessment answers one question: Where can you safely change the system — and where is it still too dangerous?
Who it's for
- ✓ Teams responsible for existing Rails systems with customers, revenue, and internal dependency
- ✓ Organizations where breaking things has real cost — outages, compliance exposure, data integrity, or reputational damage
- ✓ Engineering or product leaders who need to move forward safely, but don't currently have enough confidence in the system to do so
Who it's not for
- ✗ Greenfield products, MVPs, or systems without meaningful production consequences
- ✗ Teams optimizing primarily for speed or lowest cost, where short-term velocity outweighs downside
- ✗ Organizations looking for staff augmentation or feature delivery before system conditions are understood
What's included
System map
High-level identification of architectural, data, test, and operational factors that make change dangerous today.
Test coverage & confidence assessment
Evaluation of current test posture — gaps, flakiness, trustworthiness — and how it affects safe development.
Modernization pathways
Practical options for improving safety and velocity: what to tackle now, what to defer, what to avoid.
Change-readiness guidance
Where feature development or refactoring is safe today — and where it isn't.
Executive-ready summary & recommendations
Clear, non-technical readout leadership can use to make informed decisions.
What's explicitly excluded
- Feature development or roadmap execution
- Large-scale refactors or rewrites
- Test-writing beyond small illustrative examples
- Production changes outside limited diagnostic work
- Long-term planning or delivery commitments
Timeline
- 2–3 weeks, depending on system size and access
- Designed to be minimally disruptive to the existing team
- Fixed start and end date
Ready to understand where change is safe?
Tell us about your system. We'll schedule an intro call to determine if the assessment is right for your situation.
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