Makimo Health Check is designed for organizations that already have a working software product and want to understand whether their technology is helping the business grow, or slowly becoming a limitation.

It is especially valuable for companies experiencing growing complexity, increasing maintenance costs, slower delivery, unstable systems, or uncertainty around technical direction. Many organizations reach a point where development starts feeling heavier despite increasing investment. Features take longer to release, teams become less confident in making changes, and technical decisions become reactive instead of strategic.

Health Check is particularly useful for scaleups and enterprise divisions, CTOs, Heads of Engineering, Product Leaders, and executive teams who need visibility into the actual condition of their systems before scaling further, as well as for investors and VCs conducting technical due diligence.

The outcome is a clear understanding of your current technical reality and the human systems behind it, and a structured plan for improving it. You receive a report with an objective assessment of your codebase, architecture, delivery process, team bottlenecks, and operational risks. Instead of vague recommendations, the process identifies where complexity, inefficiencies, and technical debt are slowing the organization down, and what should be prioritized first.

The goal is not only to find problems, but to create clarity. After the Health Check, leadership teams understand where future risks come from, development teams understand where effort is being lost, and the organization gains a roadmap for sustainable growth.

A well-executed Health Check reduces uncertainty around technology decisions and helps organizations regain control over growth, costs, and delivery.

It improves development predictability, highlights hidden operational risks, and reduces the likelihood of expensive architectural failures later. Organizations often discover that many of their delays and inefficiencies are not caused by lack of talent, but by structural issues inside the system itself.

Over time, this leads to lower maintenance costs, faster delivery, better scalability, and improved collaboration between technical and business teams.

If you feel some operational inefficiencies, or if your software feels increasingly difficult to change, scale, or maintain, you likely already feel the symptoms.

Typical warning signs include:

• slower development despite growing teams,
• rising infrastructure or maintenance costs,
• recurring production issues,
• uncertainty around technical priorities,
• growing frustration inside engineering teams,
• difficulty onboarding new developers,
• or lack of confidence when releasing changes.

In many cases, organizations wait too long before addressing these signals. Makimo Health Check helps identify the root causes before they become significantly more expensive to fix.

No. The process goes far beyond reviewing code. Makimo Health Check looks at how technology decisions impact the business as a whole. That includes architecture, scalability, maintainability, cloud setup, operational processes, delivery structure, and team alignment.

The goal is not to create a technical audit for engineers only. The goal is to understand whether your technology environment supports long-term business growth.

No. Health Check is designed to work alongside your existing operations without interrupting delivery.

The process is collaborative and structured. We work with your teams to gather context, review systems, and identify risks while minimizing disruption to day-to-day work. Most organizations find that the process itself already creates alignment and clarity internally.

We focus on 6 interlocking areas, connecting product, teams and code together.

• Product Management
• Infrastructure
• Architecture & Engineering
• AI Readiness
• Business Processes
• Team Culture

Over the umpteen years of designing and developing software, advising and mentoring teams and businesses of all sorts and sizes blended into a thorough infrastructure and architecture audit and operations questionnaire supported by an in-depth interview.

Makimo Health Check is a thorough and comprehensive audit that covers the entire product, from strategic goals to a single line of code, looking at the areas themselves and their intersections, providing quick wins as well as long-term recommendations, and driving their implementation across the organization. While Makimo Advisory is also overseeing the implementation, it's not a predefined set of tools to cover the entire product, but rather a customized, extensive search for pain points and ahead-of-the-market propositions to identify the changes needed to increase competitiveness, efficiency, and long-term product success.

Makimo Mentoring is a mentoring program for tech leaders to embrace the knowledge of the industry and turn it into a focused support of the leader and their team. It may come as a result and a recommendation of a Makimo Health Check Audit.

Recommendations vary, but there are common themes:

• Alignment-oriented, such as building visibility into the goals of the team
• Process improvements, such as introducing metrics of the end-to-end delivery process
• Technology improvements, such as cloud security recommendations
• Ways of working, such as setting up common expectations regarding the day-to-day work
• Communication and decision making – such as reducing shadow communication in the organization

These recommendations come in an integrated package with one or more overall transformation themes.

No. The final decisions about the choice and order of the recommendations to implement belongs to the leaders who requested Makimo Health Check. Our team will also identify any strategic advantages or operational efficiencies that might be compromised should you choose to execute only specific parts of the proposed roadmap.

Yes. That's what we do under the umbrella of Makimo Advisory.