A complete read on technical posture before the next stage of capital, scale, or scrutiny.
Round closing, contract scaling, headcount doubling. Stack built for an earlier company.
Something will break. Where, when, how bad: unclear. The hunch is real but the evidence isn't there yet.
Want to know what an investor’s technical review will find before they find it.
CTO or VP Engineering exits, or a serious incident in the last quarter. Need outside eyes on what got left behind.
A complete diagnosis across five focus areas, covering all three framework pillars. Each finding rated by severity and projected time-to-impact. A working document leadership can put in front of a board, an investor, or an acquirer. A practical guide to drive next steps.
Where the system bends under load. Which components carry hidden coupling. What scales linearly, what scales catastrophically.
What’s monitored, what’s alerted on, what fails silently. Mean time to detection in practice, not on the SLA page. Incident response as documented process or improvised Slack thread.
What’s actually proprietary versus what looks proprietary. Where the IP lives, where it’s assigned, where dependencies could blow it up. What a competitor could replicate in a quarter.
Where critical knowledge lives, and where it doesn’t. Which decisions depend on one person being in the room. What stops working when a key engineer leaves.
Missed plays. Capabilities already built that aren’t being commercialized. Adjacent value the current roadmap is walking past.
Diagnosis stands on its own. Evidence-based, structured recommendations guide you to 1 of 3 paths.
Diagnosis confirms the stack carries the next stage. No further work needed. Operate with confidence and a documented baseline for the next review.
Diagnosis surfaces issues not worth fixing right now. Log them, set the trigger conditions, move on with clear thresholds for revisiting.
Diagnosis surfaces material risk likely to land before the next stage. Remediation requires scoping, sequencing, and budget.
Clearing Ground's Technical Readiness Prognosis builds directly on the Technology Foundation Diagnosis engagement. The Diagnosis fee is applied to the Prognosis stage in full (within 90 days).
The highest-returning investment on the cap table is the one that protects everything above it
We work with founders approaching a raise, investors pressure-testing portfolio companies, and advisors who need an operator on the other end of the line.
Serving Canadian and US growth-stage companies.