// software_audits
Software Audits & Validation
Before you build more, we tell you what's broken. Our audits cover code quality, security posture, architecture decisions, and technical debt - with a prioritized action plan.
// what we build
What you can hire us to do
Before you build more, we tell you what's actually broken — code, security, architecture, performance — with evidence and a ranked plan. We can stay to fix it. Hover a capability on desktop, or tap it on a phone, to see what that engagement includes.
01
Code quality & maintainability
A senior pass on the codebase you'd inherit: structure, tests, debt, and whether a rewrite is honestly required.
- Code quality review
- Architecture-in-the-small: modules, duplication, and the files everyone is afraid to touch.
- Maintainability assessment
- How long a new engineer would need before they can ship without breaking billing.
- Tests & coverage
- What's actually tested vs. what's theater — and the gaps that will bite a release.
- Dependency audit
- Abandoned packages, known vulns, and the upgrade tax waiting in package.json.
- Tech debt map
- Debt tagged by risk and effort so 'we should rewrite' becomes a sequence.
- Standards & lint
- Whether the repo has a way of doing things, or every PR is a new dialect.
- Docs & onboarding
- Can someone run the app from the README, or is the real setup in Slack folklore?
- Rewrite vs. refactor
- A recommendation with a costed path — we don't sell rewrites for sport.
02
Security assessment
Application security review against how the product actually works — OWASP-class issues, secrets, auth, and the boring misconfigurations that get exploited.
- Vulnerability assessment
- Auth, injection, access control, and the findings we'd actually file as P0–P3.
- OWASP-aligned review
- A structured pass, with evidence, not a scanner PDF dumped on your desk.
- Secrets & config
- Keys in git, overly wide IAM, and debug endpoints that never got turned off.
- Auth & session review
- Reset flows, cookies, tokens, and the 'remember me' that isn't.
- Tenancy & access control
- IDOR and cross-tenant reads — the bugs that don't show up in unit tests.
- CVE & supply chain
- What you're shipping from npm/PyPI, and what's unpatched.
- HTTP & surface hardening
- Headers, CORS, and admin surfaces exposed to the internet for no good reason.
- Lightweight threat model
- Who might attack this, through what, and which controls are missing given that story.
03
Architecture & scalability
Will this still make sense at 10× traffic or 10× team? We review boundaries, data, and the operational story.
- Architecture review
- Service boundaries, coupling, and the 'we'll split it later' that already hurts.
- Scalability review
- Bottlenecks, stateful surprises, and what fails first when you get the traffic you want.
- Data architecture
- Schema, migrations, and whether reporting is going to freeze checkout.
- Integration map
- Third parties as a reliability domain: timeouts, retries, and poison pills.
- Jobs & async
- Whether background work is a real system or a cron on a laptop.
- Multi-region readiness
- Only if you need it — we won't recommend a topology you can't operate.
- Cost architecture
- The AWS bill as an architecture smell: chatty calls, unbounded logs, leftover always-on.
04
Performance
Profiling the real user path: web vitals, queries, and the N+1 that only shows up in production.
- Performance profiling
- Server, query, and frontend traces on the flows that matter.
- Web Vitals audit
- What's blowing LCP/INP, with fixes in the actual components.
- Query & N+1 review
- The ORM patterns that work in dev and die at 10k rows.
- Caching review
- What's cached, what's stampeded, and what's secretly never hit.
- Asset pipeline
- Images, fonts, and JS that make the first visit feel like 2014.
- Load readiness
- A sober view of what would happen if a campaign actually worked.
05
Accessibility & compliance readiness
Not a certification mill — a readiness check so you know the gap before a customer, auditor, or lawsuit finds it.
- Accessibility audit
- Keyboard, contrast, semantics, and forms — with repro steps, not only automated scores.
- WCAG gap analysis
- Where you stand vs. the target level, ranked for remediation.
- Privacy readiness
- Cookies, retention, and the product behaviors that make a policy a lie.
- Audit logging
- Who did what, when — enough for diligence, not a fake SIEM.
- Compliance checklist
- A mapped list of controls vs. what the codebase actually does.
06
Diligence & remediation
Board-ready summaries, acquisition tech diligence, and the option to have the same team fix what we found.
- Executive summary
- Risk language non-engineers can use in a board or buyer conversation.
- Remediation plan
- Ordered by severity and effort, with suggested owners and sequencing.
- Acquisition / fundraise diligence
- A third-party view of the stack for investors or acquirers.
- Follow-up validation
- Re-check after fixes so 'we patched it' is evidenced.
- Remediation build
- We implement the plan — same people, zero knowledge lost in a handoff.
- Rescue engagements
- When a vendor left a half-built system: stabilize, then a path forward.
// ideal for
- You're inheriting a codebase or preparing for a fundraise / acquisition
- You suspect technical debt or security gaps but need evidence
- You want a prioritized plan - not a vague 'needs rewrite' opinion
- →Code quality & maintainability review
- →Security vulnerability assessment
- →Architecture & scalability review
- →Performance profiling
- →Compliance readiness check
- ✓Detailed audit report
- ✓Prioritized remediation plan
- ✓Executive summary
- ✓Follow-up validation session
// how we deliver
Our Software Audits & Validation approach
A service-specific path - still rooted in Discover → Architect → Build → Ship.
Intake & access
Repo access, environments, threat model context, and success criteria - what decisions the audit must inform.
Deep review
Code, architecture, security, and performance passes with severity tagging and evidence.
Report & roadmap
Executive summary plus engineer-ready remediation plan ordered by risk and effort.
Follow-up validation
Optional re-check after fixes - or we implement the remediation ourselves if you want one team.
// proof
Work involving Software Audits & Validation
Selected engagements where this discipline was part of the delivery.
// from a client
“MintyLogix looked under the hood of our messy legacy dispatch setup before we blew money on a total rewrite. Thank God they did. They caught security gaps, brittle code, and data messes we were about to accidentally copy over to version 2. They easily saved us months of painful rework.”
James Whitfield
CTO, Midwest Fleet Ops · Audit before rebuild
// stack
Tools we reach for
// engagement
What working together looks like
Soft guidance - final scope and pricing live on our pricing page.
Typical timeline
1–3 weeks
Team shape
Senior engineer (+ security specialist as needed)
Starting point
Small project path — start with a fit call; see Pricing
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