Audit · 2 weeks, fixed
The iOS function audit
Two weeks. Everything that's true about your iOS function, written down.
Codebase, build and release process, team and bus factor, hiring readiness, roadmap risk. A written report, a 90-minute readout, an honest verdict. Fully credited if we keep working together.
- Duration
- 2 weeks, fixed
- Investment
- €7.5k fixed, credited within 60 days
- Shape
- Report + 90-min readout
Most scale-up CTOs didn't come up through mobile. So when iOS feels slow, fragile, or opaque, it's hard to know whether the problem is the architecture, the pipeline, the team, the hiring bar. Or nothing at all, and the expectations are wrong.
In two weeks I look at all of it: codebase, build and release process, team structure and bus factor, hiring readiness, and the gap between your roadmap and what the function can predictably ship.
This is the entry product. Every engagement can start here.
Who this is for
You're a CTO, VP Engineering, or Head of Mobile at a European scale-up. iOS is on your risk list and you can't yet name why. Or the board, an investor, or an acquirer is asking questions about mobile you can't answer with confidence. The iOS team is two to eight people. The app is in production and material to the business.
If your senior iOS engineer just resigned, skip the audit: the stabilization engagement is the right door.
What I examine
The full iOS function, not just the code.
- 1
Codebase & architecture
Coherence, onboarding cost, and the boring-tech-debt list ordered by effort and risk. Not a style review: a what-will-hurt-you-in-12-months review.
- 2
Build, release & pipelines
Build times, release cadence against web, CI health, and what stands between the team and weekly releases.
- 3
Team & bus factor
Who can do what, where the bus factor of one actually sits.
- 4
Hiring readiness
Can this org evaluate a senior iOS candidate? Interview loop, ladder, compensation position against the local market.
- 5
Roadmap risk
The gap between what product has committed and what the function can predictably ship.
What you get
- A written report: findings, ranked risks, and a sequenced 6-month plan. Board-ready. An acquirer's tech DD has the same shape.
- A 90-minute readout. You and whoever you want in the room.
- An honest verdict. If you don't need anyone like me, the report says so and tells you what to do instead.
What this isn't
- A free pitch deck
- A teardown of the team in front of their manager
- A sales document disguised as findings
- Hands-on implementation. That's what the engagements are for
Shape
Two weeks, fixed
I need repo access, CI access, and 30–45 minutes with each iOS engineer and your PM. Remote-first; on-site across DACH by arrangement.
Investment
€7.5k fixed
No discovery-call dance about day rates. If we work together within 60 days — stabilization, a migration, embedded lead — the full audit fee counts toward that engagement.
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30-minute scoping call
If the audit isn't the right fit, I'll say so and point you to what is.
Book a scoping callThe engagements
12 weeks
Your senior iOS engineer just left
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3–6 months
Ship the migration
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Embedded iOS lead
Standing iOS leadership for scale-ups that don't have it and aren't going to hire it soon.