Strategic guidance from engineers who actually ship.
Meraki Group provides independent architecture reviews, tech debt audits, and strategic technical guidance â€" delivered as written, actionable artefacts, not slide decks full of generic advice.
What we deliver
Concrete, written artefacts â€" not workshops, opinions, or slide decks that gather dust.
Architecture Reviews
A thorough assessment of your current system design â€" service boundaries, data flows, deployment topology, and scalability ceilings. You receive a written report with specific, prioritised recommendations, not a list of complaints.
Tech Debt Audits
We map your codebase and infrastructure for risk: outdated dependencies, unpatched CVEs, tightly-coupled modules, and missing observability. Every finding is graded by severity and paired with a remediation path.
Stack Selection & Vendor Evaluation
Objective technology recommendations grounded in your team's capability, your scaling trajectory, and the real total-cost-of-ownership of each option not what a vendor's sales deck says.
CTO-as-a-Service
Fractional technical leadership for companies that need a senior technical voice in the room without the full-time cost. We attend key meetings, review hiring decisions, and keep your engineering direction coherent.
Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
We document every significant technical decision with its context, the alternatives considered, and the rationale chosen. Future engineers â€" and future you â€" will know why the system is the way it is.
Technical Roadmaps & Risk Assessments
A sequenced plan for addressing debt, migrating infrastructure, or scaling your platform â€" with risk ratings, effort estimates, and dependency maps so leadership can make informed investment decisions.
How we work
A structured four-phase engagement that ends with clear documentation you can act on immediately.
Codebase & Infrastructure Audit
We review your repositories, CI/CD pipelines, cloud or on-premises infrastructure, and monitoring setup. Where needed, we run automated scanning tools alongside manual code review. You get a complete picture of the current state before we make any recommendations.
Stakeholder Interviews
We speak with your engineers, product managers, and leadership to understand the pain points the codebase does not reveal â€" delivery bottlenecks, recurring incidents, team friction, and growth ambitions. Context shapes better recommendations.
Risk & Gap Analysis
Audit findings and interview insights are synthesised into a risk register: each item rated by likelihood and business impact, mapped to the gap in your current architecture or process that is creating the exposure.
Roadmap & Recommendations
You receive a written deliverable â€" architecture documents, ADRs where relevant, a sequenced technical roadmap, and an executive summary written for non-technical stakeholders. We then walk your team through it and answer every question.
Tools & platforms
We work across the major cloud and infrastructure platforms, and bring battle-tested frameworks for documentation and decision-making.
This is right for you if…
You are a founder who inherited a codebase from an agency or early engineering team and now need an honest assessment of what you are sitting on before you scale headcount or raise capital.
You are a non-technical CEO who suspects your engineering team is spending too much time firefighting â€" and you need a trusted, independent voice to tell you what is really going on and what it will cost to fix.
Your company is about to make a major platform decision â€" re-architecture, a cloud migration, a new data stack, or a significant vendor contract â€" and you want objective advice before you are locked in.
Get clarity on your technical foundation
Whether you need a one-time audit or ongoing fractional CTO support, we will give you an honest assessment and a clear path forward â€" in writing, with your name on it.
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