For $1,500, in one week, I go through everything you’ve built and tell you in plain English what’s going to break, what it’s going to cost, and what to fix first.
Free intro call first. I’ll say so if it isn’t worth it yet.
Talha Imtiaz.
You work with me — there’s no team behind this and nobody else will be on your calls.
If a couple of these are open in your browser right now, this page is for you.
Built with
Running on
What you can’t see
This is roughly what you built. It’s a normal shape and there’s nothing wrong with it — the tools that built it are good at making something that works, and they don’t get asked whether it’s safe to point real users at. Every line between two boxes is a question, and right now nobody in your company can answer any of them.
The answers arrive on their own eventually. Usually as an invoice, an outage, a leaked key, or an email from a customer — and always at 3am, with nobody to call.
What lands in your inbox
01 — Your system, on one page
02 — What I found, in order
Anyone who finds the address can read your database.
It has been open since the first day you deployed, because that is the default and nothing ever turned it off.
You pay the AI model on every page load, not just when someone uses it.
Your largest bill line is mostly being spent on visitors who never touched the feature.
Nothing tells you it’s down except a customer.
Both outages last month were found by your support inbox, roughly forty minutes in.
There is one copy of your data and nothing that puts it back.
A bad Friday deploy is currently a bad weekend, and there is no version of this week to return to.
Sign-ups slow to a crawl at around 300 people at once.
Fine today. Not fine the afternoon you get written up somewhere and everyone arrives together.
Moving off your hosting platform to save money.
At your traffic the platform costs less than the hours it takes to leave it. Revisit when the bill is material against runway.
A worked example, not a client’s system — the app above is invented and so are its numbers. It’s the shape and the plainness that are real: this is how the findings are written, and yours arrive with your figures off your bills.
What you walk away with
One page, in English. It’s also the first thing you’ll send the first engineer you hire.
What it costs today, what it costs at ten times the traffic, and where it stops working — using your actual figures, not a guess.
Ranked, not a pile — each one with what leaving it there actually costs you.
The expensive work you’ve been told you need and probably don’t, each with the condition that would change my mind.
I walk through all of it, and the recording is yours to keep. A week of async questions afterwards, included.
For your co-founder, in one sentence: someone read the whole thing and told us what to fix, in order.
The other half
Everyone else who looks at your app sells the thing they want to build next. I don’t build any of these, so here they are in advance, before you’ve paid me anything.
It’s the reflex answer from people who run it for a living. For one app and one database it’s weeks of work to arrive somewhere slower to change than where you started.
Unless you’re running enough separate pieces that starting and stopping them by hand is someone’s actual job — or a customer’s contract asks for it.
Someone technical looked at what you built and told you it needs redoing properly before anyone can trust it. Most of the time that’s a taste preference dressed up as a requirement, and a rewrite is months of work with nothing new for a user to see at the end of it.
Unless a specific, identified defect is actually throttling you and a rewrite is genuinely the fastest fix — not “it offends me,” which isn’t an engineering reason.
Moving to raw cloud to save money trades a bill you understand for a bill you don’t, plus the ongoing job of running it. At your traffic, the platform is cheaper than the hours.
Unless the bill is genuinely material against your runway, or you’ve hit a hard limit — a long-running job, a region you need, a compliance requirement.
Who’s reading it
That’s how I can tell you what’s actually going on rather than guess from a dashboard. What I’m reading for is DevOps and infrastructure shaped — access, cost, scaling, backups, monitoring — not application bugs or feature work; that’s not what this is. I write the findings up the same way I write them for engineering teams — I just don’t assume you speak the vocabulary. The findings are the same findings.
No one’s paid for a Launch Review yet — you’d be among the first. What follows isn’t a testimonial; it’s a real system that broke and the fix that held, and you can read the whole thing yourself.
I take 1–2 engagements at a time — async-first, with anything live scheduled in your working day.
The last time this mattered
~80 → 400+Concurrent players on GKERead howA game that fell over past seventy-odd players, on a live product, with the fix measured against the flow that broke it. It’s one job rather than a portfolio — you can read the whole thing and judge it yourself.
“I would trust Talha with an ambiguous production issue and expect him to return not just with a fix, but with a clear understanding of the root cause.”
Abdullah Tarar · Senior Teammate, not a client
Yes — read access, and nothing that lets me change anything.
Your repository, and read access to wherever the app runs and stores data. I don’t need admin, I can’t deploy, and I don’t touch anything — I’m reading, not editing. If you’d rather not grant access at all, a screen share works instead; it takes longer and you have to be there for it, so it’s the fallback rather than the default.
No — it’s a production-readiness review, not a penetration test.
I’ll flag anything insecure I come across along the way — an open database, an exposed key — but I don’t run attack tools against your systems or try to break in, and this isn’t a compliance audit. Access is read-only and scoped to what tells me about exposure, cost and uptime. I’m not opening customer records for their own sake, and nothing gets copied out.
The risk doesn’t wait for scale. The one real requirement is something running.
A database that’s open to the internet is open at ten users and at ten thousand — it doesn’t get safer because fewer people have found it yet, just cheaper to fix now than after it’s cost you something. The one real requirement is a working system to look at; if nothing’s deployed yet, there’s nothing here for me to review.
Then that’s the answer, and you get it in writing with what I checked.
It’s a genuinely useful thing to know, and it’s the thing you’d otherwise pay to find out the hard way. I won’t invent problems to justify the invoice — if the honest verdict is “this holds, here are the three things to watch”, that’s the readout, and you still get the map and the answers.
Then I wrote it wrong, and I’ll rewrite it.
That’s the failure this whole review is designed against — a document written for engineers you don’t have is worth nothing to you. The readout is recorded, so you can watch it again at your own pace. The call stops when you’ve run out of questions, not when a clock says to. And a week of async questions afterwards, included. Ask the same question three times if you need to; that’s what the week is for.
No, and it’s never a condition.
Everything I send you is yours outright — hand it to any engineer you want, no restriction. Most of what comes out of this is work you or a contractor can do straight off the list. If you’d rather I did it, I quote that separately once you’ve read the findings — $4,000–$6,000 depending on what’s on the list, with the review fee credited in full. Nothing about the review changes based on which you pick.
Yes to the NDA, signed before I get access. And nothing of yours goes anywhere.
I read what I sign, so if a clause is genuinely unusual I’ll tell you which one and why rather than quietly not signing it. If you don’t have one, a standard mutual NDA is fine. I never publish a client's architecture, findings, company name, or engagement details without explicit written permission. That holds at every price, including the founder rate, and it isn't something you have to ask for or trade anything away to get.
50% at booking, 50% on delivery.
You'll get an invoice with a card or US bank-transfer link — the same way you'd pay any US vendor. Prefer Payoneer, Wise, or direct wire? Those all work too; just say so and I'll send details. You’ll get a proper invoice either way — this isn’t a transfer to a stranger, and it’s the kind of receipt your accountant expects.
Next step
This is the one you do before you put more users, money or reputation behind what you’ve built — not after. The first call costs nothing. If this isn’t worth your money yet, I’ll say so on that call rather than take it.