An independent review of one significant platform or architecture decision before you commit months of engineering to it. A design can be technically valid and still be expensive to operate, hard to recover, or built on assumptions nobody has named. The same method as the Critical System Legibility Review, pointed at one decision.

A failure-domain and availability read.

Operability and observability findings.

A deployment and rollback path review.

A cloud and platform dependency analysis.

The cost and complexity pressure points.

The named assumptions, and the test that would break each one.

Prioritized recommendations and a two-page leadership readout.

Best fit. Teams approaching production scale, moving to Kubernetes or a new cloud platform, or adding AI workloads to existing production.

How it runs. A 30-minute intake to name the decision. An async handoff of the design and what you already have. The readout within five business days of intake. Your time, under an hour.

Price. Standard $5,000. Founding rate $2,500 for the first engagements. Message me first and I will send the founding offer. Alternative designs or a second decision are scoped separately.

Why me. Twenty-plus years across networks, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and platform engineering, much of it inside regulated boundaries. Contracted through Heron Group LLC.