For founders · CTOs · Engineering leads

Engineering Health

Your investors will check your tech.
Check it first.

Get the same structured engineering assessment that investors use, before they do. Understand your technical debt, track improvements over time, and walk into fundraising conversations with confidence.

Why it matters

Most founders find out about tech debt in a term sheet negotiation

Fundraising leverage

Walk in prepared, not surprised

When investors run tech DD on your company, they are looking for problems. If you know what they will find, and you have a plan, you negotiate from strength, not defence.

Engineering clarity

Know what to fix before it matters

Technical debt is invisible until it isn't. A regular engineering health check surfaces issues while you still have time to address them, not under the pressure of a deal timeline.

Team alignment

Shared language for priorities

A structured assessment gives your engineering team a common framework for discussing quality and debt. Decisions become easier when everyone is working from the same score.

What you learn

A score across every pillar that matters

Every health check scores your codebase across four pillars with findings ranked by severity, so you know what to fix first.

Code Quality

Maintainability

How well-structured and maintainable is your codebase? Are you accumulating debt faster than you are paying it down?

  • Architecture decisions
  • Test coverage gaps
  • Dependency hygiene
  • Code complexity hotspots

Stability

Reliability

Is your system set up to catch and recover from failures? What happens when something goes wrong at 2am?

  • CI/CD pipeline maturity
  • Error handling patterns
  • Logging & alerting
  • Deployment reliability

Scalability

Growth readiness

Can your current architecture handle the growth that comes with a successful raise? Where are the likely chokepoints?

  • Database bottlenecks
  • Caching strategy
  • Infrastructure design
  • API performance

Security

Risk exposure

Are there exposed secrets, unpatched vulnerabilities, or weak authentication patterns that create liability?

  • Secret & credential exposure
  • Auth & access control
  • Dependency CVEs
  • Data handling practices

Recurring signals

One check is a snapshot. Recurring signals tell the story.

Run health checks at a cadence that fits your development cycle: monthly, quarterly, or before major fundraising milestones. TechSignal tracks your scores over time, showing whether engineering quality is improving or degrading as you scale.

  • Score trends across all four pillars
  • Delta indicators showing improvement or regression
  • Findings history: what got fixed, what remains
  • Founder, CTO, and investor role-based views

Example: 3 months of signals

Code Quality+13
586471
Security+26
425568
Scalability+4
616165
Stability+8
747882

Know where you stand before the next round

Run your first engineering health check in minutes. No credit card required.

Run your first health check