Delivery Constraint Audit Sprint
Diagnose what is really slowing delivery.
A focused 2-3 week audit for B2B SaaS teams that need clarity before hiring, rewriting, reorganising, or committing to a longer CTO engagement.
At a glance
- Duration
- 2-3 weeks
- Format
- Interviews, system review, delivery flow mapping, architecture/process review, and executive readout.
- Price
- Fixed fee from £7,500 + VAT
- Outcome
- A bottleneck diagnosis and practical 90-day plan.
Who it is for
- B2B SaaS or software-enabled businesses with engineers already in place.
- Leadership teams worried that delivery speed, release risk, or architecture drag has become a commercial problem.
- CTOs, VPs Engineering, COOs, founders, or delivery leaders who need an external diagnosis before committing more budget.
- Teams considering hiring, rewriting, replatforming, or reorganising but not yet confident those moves attack the real constraint.
Symptoms
- Roadmaps slip and confidence drops.
- Releases are slow, risky, or dependent on heroics.
- Architecture debates repeat because decisions do not stick.
- Product and engineering are busy, but valuable work does not move fast enough.
- Ownership is unclear across product, platform, delivery, and leadership.
- The business needs a practical plan, not a theoretical transformation programme.
What happens during the sprint
The sprint looks at how work really moves from idea to production: who decides, where it waits, what creates risk, and which technical or organisational constraint matters most right now.
Stakeholder interviews
Delivery flow review
Architecture and platform review
Ways-of-working review
Constraint diagnosis
Executive readout
What you get
The output is built for action: enough context for leadership, enough detail for product and engineering, and a sequenced plan the team can actually work through.
Constraint diagnosis with supporting evidence
Delivery flow map showing waits, rework, handoffs, and risk build-up
Decision and ownership register
Architecture and platform risk review
Recommended metrics for flow, risk, and delivery confidence
Sequenced 90-day execution plan
Example outputs
The exact format depends on the team, but the artefacts are designed to help leaders make decisions and teams take the next steps.
Executive summary
A clear readout for founders, execs, board, or investor-adjacent stakeholders.
Constraint map
Where the product-engineering system is currently constrained and why that point matters more than nearby symptoms.
Decision map
The decisions, owners, and trade-offs that need to become explicit before delivery can improve.
90-day plan
A practical sequence of actions with owners, expected impact, and suggested metrics.
Pricing and next steps
The fit call confirms whether this is the right shape of problem. The Audit Sprint is then scoped as a fixed-fee engagement before work begins.
Fit call
Free
30 minutes to check fit and urgency.
Audit Sprint
From £7,500 + VAT
Fixed fee, agreed after the fit call.
Lead & Enable
£8,500/month + VAT
Monthly, 3-month minimum.
Interim CTO
Scoped individually
For temporary senior coverage through a transition.
What happens after
Some clients take the plan and execute internally. Others ask me to stay involved for 90 days to lead, enable, and remove the highest-leverage constraints. Longer fractional CTO, advisory, or interim work only makes sense when the diagnostic shows there is a clear operating risk to own.
FAQ
Is this a technical audit or an operating audit?
Both. The point is to understand the system that turns product decisions into shipped software, so architecture, release flow, ownership, sequencing, and leadership rhythm are reviewed together.
Will this produce a strategy deck?
No generic strategy deck. The output is a practical diagnosis and 90-day plan designed to be used by the team.
Can we execute the plan ourselves?
Yes. Some clients take the plan and execute internally. Others ask me to stay involved for 90 days to lead, enable, and remove the highest-leverage constraints.
What does it cost?
The Audit Sprint is fixed fee from £7,500 + VAT.
Ready to diagnose the constraint?
Start with a 30-minute fit call. If the Audit Sprint is not the right first move, you will get a clear reason.
Contact
Tell me what is slowing delivery. I'll reply with fit-call slots or a clear reason if it is not the right shape of problem.
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