System Risk Check
Know exactly what state your application is in — before it decides to show you.
A clear, written answer to “How bad is it?”
Whether you inherited an application, are worried about the one you run, or are deciding whether to invest further in an existing product — the first step is the same: an honest technical picture. The System Risk Check is our structured technical audit of an existing PHP, Laravel or Symfony application: a full source code audit plus a review of the infrastructure, database and integrations around it, delivered as a written report you can act on with or without us.
It is also how every takeover and maintenance engagement starts, so nothing in it is padded: it is the same review we rely on ourselves before agreeing to take responsibility for a production system.
Written report
Risks ranked by business impact, quick wins, and a recommended plan — in plain language.
No obligation
The report is yours. Use it with us, with your team, or with another vendor.
how it works
Request
Tell us about the system and what worries you — even a URL and a hosting invoice is enough to start. NDA on request.
Grant access
Read-only wherever possible: repository, hosting, database. Scoped to the review, documented, revocable by you at any time.
We review
Code, infrastructure, database, cron jobs, queues, integrations and access — anything urgent is flagged to you immediately.
Report & call
A written, prioritised risk report plus a walkthrough call. The report is yours — with us or without us.
what we inspect
Code & dependencies
Framework and PHP versions, dependency health, security advisories, code structure, test coverage, and how risky changes currently are.
Infrastructure & deploys
Hosting/AWS setup, Docker, deployment process, environment configuration, backups — and whether they actually restore.
Database
Version and support status, slow queries, indexes, growth patterns, and cost traps like extended-support fees for end-of-life versions.
Cron jobs & queues
Scheduled tasks, workers and background jobs — the silent failure layer where we routinely find the most urgent problems.
Integrations
Payment, availability, pricing and other third-party connections: failure handling, monitoring, and what happens when the other side changes.
Access & ownership
Who controls the code, servers, domain and third-party accounts — critical when a previous developer has left.
what you receive
- A written report: every significant risk, ranked by likelihood and business impact.
- Quick wins — the fixes worth doing immediately, whoever does them.
- A recommended plan: stabilisation, maintenance scope, upgrades or modernisation steps.
- A walkthrough call to go through the findings and answer questions.
before you request one
Read-only access wherever possible: code repository, hosting or cloud account, and the database. You grant it, it is scoped to what the review needs, documented, and you can revoke it at any time. NDAs are standard practice on request — more on How We Work.
It depends on the size and state of the system; the timeline is agreed up front when we scope it. Anything that looks urgent is flagged to you immediately — we do not sit on critical findings until the report is finished.
A fixed price, agreed before we start and scoped to the size of your system — see how pricing works. The report is yours to keep and use with us, your team, or another vendor.
Then you have bought certainty — a documented, independent picture of the system your business depends on. In practice the quick-wins list alone usually justifies the exercise, and there is no obligation to continue with us either way.
Request your System Risk Check
Tell us where your application lives and what worries you. We reply within one business day.
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