Know exactly where your technology stands — in two weeks, for $2,000 CAD.
The Technology Health Check is a fixed-price, fixed-scope review of your tech: stack, architecture, team, and risk. SMBs across Canada and the US — from Toronto to Austin — use it to convert 'something feels off' into a written report with prioritized recommendations they can act on. No retainer required. No upsell required.
Technology Health Check
$2,000
CAD, one-time
A focused review of your technology — stack, architecture, team, and risk. Delivered as a written report you own.
Bring us on, and you get the full $2,000 back — credited against your third month if you're still on a retainer with us. Month-to-month, no lock-in.
A written report you own
The deliverable is a PDF you can share with your board, your insurer, or a future CTO. It includes a risk register that rates what actually threatens the business, prioritised recommendations with clear next steps, and an appendix with anything that didn't fit the priority list.
No slide deck, no verbal handoff. The report is the product — and the 60-minute walkthrough call exists so you can challenge it before you act on it.
How the Health Check works
Two weeks. Fixed scope. You see progress every few days, not radio silence followed by a deck. Here's the cadence.
Week 1 — Information gathering
- Kickoff call — 60 minutes to align on the questions you actually want answered
- Stakeholder interviews — short calls with you and any technical people on staff (dev lead, IT manager, key vendor)
- Document review — repo access if available, architecture diagrams, vendor invoices, security policies, incident logs
- Mid-week check-in — what we're seeing, what we still need, no surprises
Week 2 — Analysis + delivery
- Analysis + drafting — risk register built, recommendations prioritised by business impact, 12-month watch list
- Internal review — second pair of senior eyes on the draft before you see it
- Written report delivered — PDF, typically 15-25 pages, you own it
- 60-minute walkthrough call — we walk you through every recommendation so you can challenge it and decide what to act on
The Reyem Tech ladder
Pick the rung that matches where you are. Each step is a real, productized engagement.
Health Check
Discovery $2,000fixed scope, ~2 weeks
CTO on Tap
Advisory from $2,750 / monthadvisory retainer
Fractional CTO
Hands-On from $8,000 / monthembedded leadership retainer
Execution-Ready
Full Cycle project-scopedwe build and ship it
What's in the Health Check — and what's not
Clear scope is the whole point. Here's the line.
Included
- Architecture and stack review (current state, scaling risks, modernization options)
- Codebase smell-test (security posture, maintainability, test coverage signals)
- Team and process review (delivery cadence, hiring gaps, vendor exposure)
- Vendor + tool inventory (cost rationalization, lock-in risk)
- Written report with prioritized recommendations
- One 60-min readout call to walk through the report
Not included
- Implementation work (we recommend; you decide)
- Ongoing retainer or hands-on engineering (separate engagement)
- Penetration testing or formal security audit (we recommend SOC 2 / pen-test specialists if you need one)
- On-call coverage or pager duty
Who actually buys a Health Check
These are the patterns we see most often. If any of them describe your situation, the Health Check is the right place to start.
"Something feels off but I can't articulate it"
Costs creeping, vendor relationships getting tense, a project that's stalled, or just the sense that no one senior is steering. The Health Check converts the unease into a written diagnosis you can act on.
Before a fundraise, sale, or due diligence
Investors and acquirers will ask hard technical questions. Walking in with a written assessment you commissioned yourself is a much stronger posture than scrambling to answer questions for the first time across the table.
After a CTO or tech lead departure
You need to know what you actually inherited before you hire the replacement. The Health Check gives the search a clear job description and the new hire a real starting baseline instead of a six-month rediscovery exercise.
A client, insurer, or auditor is asking technical questions
When a B2B client sends a security questionnaire, an insurer requires a controls attestation, or an auditor wants the architecture overview, you need defensible answers. The Health Check is the cheapest path to having them in writing.
Considering a major build, migration, or platform change
Before committing six or seven figures to a build or replatform, get a written read on whether the current foundation supports it, what risks the migration carries, and which sequence keeps the business running through the change.
Onboarding into a retainer with us
Most clients who go on to CTO on Tap or Fractional CTO start with a Health Check so session one of the retainer is grounded in a shared, written map — not a cold introduction. The $2,000 credits against your third month if you stay.
What you do with the report
The deliverable is yours. It's a strategic document, not a sales artefact for us. Here's how most owners actually use it.
As your internal roadmap
Hand the prioritised recommendations to your existing dev team, tech lead, or vendor and execute against them yourself. You get the strategic clarity without committing to a retainer.
As leverage with vendors
Use the vendor inventory and risk register when you renegotiate contracts. A neutral written assessment is the strongest argument for a better rate or a cleaner exit clause.
To justify a hire
The report becomes your business case for the headcount you actually need — whether that's a senior engineer, a security lead, or a fractional CTO. It moves the conversation from "I think we should" to "here's what's at risk if we don't."
To answer insurers and auditors
When the cyber-insurance renewal asks about controls or an auditor wants an architecture overview, point to the report. It's defensible, recent, and written by an independent third party.
As a due-diligence packet
If you're raising or selling, the Health Check becomes part of the data room. Investors and acquirers expect this kind of artifact — having one ready signals operational maturity.
As the kickoff for an ongoing engagement
Most owners who continue with us start the retainer (CTO on Tap or Fractional CTO) the same week. The full $2,000 credits against your third month if you do — no lock-in.
Already know you'll want ongoing access?
If you're a non-technical owner who's regularly asked technical questions by clients, insurers, vendors, or partners — and you'd rather have someone on your side of the table when those questions land — the Health Check is the right place to start. It's the entry into Advisory (CTO on Tap), our retainer for borrowed technical authority. Most clients in this situation start with the $2,000 Health Check so we're aligned on the actual landscape from session one of the retainer — and if you stay with us, the full $2,000 credits against your third month.
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A written assessment of your architecture and stack, a risk register that rates what actually threatens the business, and a prioritised plan with quick wins and a 12-month watch list. We close with a 60-minute walkthrough call so you can ask questions and challenge the recommendations. The $2,000 is fixed — no scope creep, no add-on invoices.
About two weeks from kickoff to delivery. Week one is information gathering — short interviews with you and any technical people on staff, plus a review of any docs, repos, or invoices you're comfortable sharing. Week two is analysis, drafting, and the final walkthrough call.
A written PDF report (typically 15–25 pages) covering current state, key risks ranked by business impact, prioritised recommendations, and an appendix with anything we found that didn't fit the priority list. You own the report — share it with your board, your insurer, a future CTO, or a vendor you're evaluating.
Not refundable, but the full $2,000 credits against your third month if you're still on an active CTO on Tap or Fractional CTO retainer at that point. There is no lock-in and no minimum term — the retainer is month-to-month; the credit is simply a benefit that appears at month three if you're still with us. The Health Check is designed to give you a real deliverable whether or not you continue.
No. The report is written for the decision-maker — usually a non-technical owner, CEO, or board. Technical detail lives in an appendix for anyone on your side who wants it. The walkthrough call exists specifically to make sure you can act on the recommendations without needing to translate jargon.
You decide. Most owners use the report as a roadmap they execute themselves with their existing team or vendors. Some use it as leverage to renegotiate a vendor contract or justify a hire. Others bring us back for ongoing advisory (CTO on Tap) or execution (Fractional CTO). There is no upsell pressure — the report stands on its own.
Yes — that's the most common path for owners who realise during the process that they want recurring access to senior technical judgement. The retainer is month-to-month with no lock-in, and if you're still on it at month three, the full $2,000 Health Check fee credits against that month's invoice. Starting with the Health Check means our first retainer session is grounded in a shared, written understanding of your environment rather than a cold introduction.
The Health Check is the wrong product for that. We deliberately ship a written deliverable so you have something you own and can act on or share. If you want an informal conversation first, a free 30-minute discovery call is the right starting point — but we'll likely steer you back to the Health Check the moment specifics come up.
