Technology Health Check
A structured, confidential assessment of a company's technology platform. Designed to give boards, investors, and management teams an accurate, actionable picture of technical maturity and risk.
What Is a Health Check?
A Proof Edge Technology Health Check is a point-in-time analysis of a company's technology landscape. It provides a comprehensive view across platform architecture, security, engineering practices, data capability, and product management.
The engagement is typically commissioned by a company's board or investors ahead of a potential transaction, growth phase, or to identify improvement opportunities over a defined horizon (typically 6–12 months).
The output is a clear, confidential report: written for executives, not just engineers. Findings are rated by risk, prioritised by impact, and accompanied by actionable recommendations.
Typical Deliverables
- ✓ Executive summary
- ✓ Risk-rated findings
- ✓ Prioritised recommendations
- ✓ Technical debt assessment
- ✓ Team & capability review
- ✓ Roadmap assessment
- ✓ Benchmark comparisons
What We Assess
Six core dimensions, each examined in depth by practitioners with hands-on experience.
Platform Architecture
We assess the overall system design, infrastructure choices, scalability characteristics, and technical dependencies. We look for architectural risks, single points of failure, and the cost to scale or migrate.
Security Practices
We review security posture across application security, access controls, data protection, third-party risk, and incident response capability. We surface vulnerabilities that could affect valuation or represent regulatory exposure.
Software Development & SDLC
We examine the full software development lifecycle: team structure, deployment practices, code quality controls, testing coverage, and release cadence. We assess delivery capability and the ability to change safely and quickly.
R&D Effectiveness
We evaluate how effectively the engineering organisation translates resource into output. We look at how priorities are set, how technical debt is managed, and whether the roadmap is realistic given current capacity.
Data Maturity
We assess data architecture, governance frameworks, analytics capability, and data quality practices. In an increasingly data-driven world, this is often a significant differentiator — or a significant risk.
Product Management
We review product management practices and how well the product function connects customer needs to engineering delivery. We assess roadmap clarity, prioritisation frameworks, and stakeholder alignment.
How It Works
Scoping
We agree the scope, timeline, and key focus areas with your team. Typically 2–4 weeks end-to-end.
Discovery
Document review, system walkthroughs, and structured interviews with technical and product leaders.
Analysis
Independent analysis of findings, risk rating, and benchmarking against industry standards.
Reporting
Delivery of a confidential report with executive summary, findings, and prioritised recommendations.
Commission a Health Check
Get in touch to discuss your situation. We'll explain what's involved and how we can tailor the scope to your needs.
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