A 1-week audit for teams whose backlog has become a junk drawer: 400 tickets, no one knows what's next, and planning meetings run in circles. In five days you get it back under control — with a system that keeps it that way.

Teams whose backlog has outgrown anyone's ability to reason about it

Founders who suspect the roadmap and the backlog tell two different stories

New product/engineering leads inheriting a messy tracker and needing a clean start

Days 1–2: Audit — I go through your backlog, roadmap and delivery flow; short interviews (30–45 min) with 2–3 key people

Days 3–4: Reset — re-prioritized backlog in clear tiers, duplicates and dead tickets cleared, an intake rule for new requests, and a definition of "ready"

Day 5: Handover — a 90-minute walkthrough with your team, so the system survives without me

A re-prioritized, de-cluttered backlog in your own tracker (Jira, Notion — whatever you use)

A lightweight prioritization framework tailored to your team, not a textbook model

A written summary of findings and recommended next steps

If you want follow-through, we can convert into a fractional engagement — the audit fee counts toward the first month.