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Technical Readiness Prognosis (Tier 1)

A board-ready prognosis for known technical risk. Findings quantified, roadmap sequenced, talent gaps identified, remediation budgeted.

Duration
Six weeks
Terms
Fixed scope
Fixed fee
Deliverables
Written prognosis
Collaborative review

When You Need It

After Diagnosis

A prior diagnosis surfaced material risk. The path forward needs structure: what to remediate, in what order, at what cost.

Diligence Imminent

Raise, sale, or major contract on the calendar. Buried risk discovered in the other side's review threatens to compress valuation, extend timelines, and rewrite terms.

Known Problem

Leadership already sees the weakness. The fix requires more than internal alignment: outside scoping, honest sequencing, costed remediation.

Inherited Stack

New CTO, post-acquisition, post-integration. The system came with the role. A priced, sequenced plan for hardening is needed for a board-defensible position.

What You Get

A structured prognosis across six deliverables: findings quantified, response prescribed, resources costed, board briefed.

Quantified Findings

Material risks across governance, architecture, and operational pillars. Each scored on severity, probability, time-to-impact, and cost-of-not-fixing.

Remediation Roadmap

What the technical fixes look like, in what order. Critical-path dependencies surfaced, parallel tracks identified.

Growth Roadmap

Technical strategy for the stage ahead. What to build, what to evolve, what to retire alongside the remediation work.

Operational & Cultural Shifts

Process changes, ownership shifts, and accountability structures. Technical fixes drift back to broken without them.

Resource Plan

Team composition, timeline, budget envelope. The numbers leadership and finance need to commit.

Board Brief

Investor-grade summary. The document for a board or fund partner, distinct from the engineering-level findings.

How It Works

Discovery (Weeks 1-2)

  1. Extended interviews with engineering leadership, founders, operators, board
  2. Deep inspection of architecture, infrastructure, runbooks, incident history, decision records
  3. Code-level review of platform, delivery, and critical systems
  4. Examination of financials, vendor agreements, IP disclosures, customer contracts

Quantification (Weeks 3-4)

  1. Synthesis of findings into pillar-mapped material risks
  2. Scoring on severity, probability, time-to-impact, cost-of-not-fixing
  3. Benchmarking against industry data where available
  4. Identification of talent gaps and operational capacity constraints

Prescription (Weeks 5-6)

  1. Remediation and growth roadmap construction with sequencing and dependencies
  2. Operational and cultural shift recommendations
  3. Resource plan with team composition, timeline, budget envelope
  4. Board brief for the executive audience
  5. Collaborative review and pressure-test with leadership

Where It Leads

Quantified and sequenced plan of action may be executed internally, or delegated to Clearing Ground experts.

Execute Internally

Roadmap is sufficient. Leadership has the resources, the conviction, and the runway. We remain available for periodic pressure-tests at quarterly intervals.

Engage Remediation

Prognosis surfaces work too critical or too embedded for scheduled internal execution. Strike Team Remediation engages directly against the roadmap built here.

Hybrid Path

Strike Team takes the critical-path tracks. Internal teams execute the rest in parallel. Coordinated cadence between both.

Clearing Ground Strike Team engagements are driven by a Statement of Work (SOW) based on Prognosis findings and internal capacity limits. The SOW is built collaboratively, including explicit milestones and deliverables for Clearing Ground and your team.

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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.

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