Your codebase has liabilities
you haven't found yet
A fixed-scope audit: what's fragile, what's a security risk, what will fail investor due diligence — with a prioritised fix list any dev team can execute.
Avoid waste
The longer you work with non optimized code, the more resources you're wasting down the line. Technical debt can accumulate fast and you might find yourself in a corner before you realize it. This will impair your ability to build value-adding features and thus negatively impact your ROI.
Secure your funding
If you're planning on raising funds, the quality of your code can make or break your deal. Sure, you can try and bury it, but more often than not, it's going to blow up in your face. Which would be too bad.
Your app won't audit itself
(Be a lot cooler if it did. But it won't)
Why externalize your app audit.
External look
It's easy to overlook things when you've been working on the same app for a while. A fresh look from an external team will reveal the weak points in your code that might cost you down the line. Also, it can be difficult for employees to question legacy code that was initially written by a founder and is causing trouble for the app as a whole.
No bias
Our team won't be partial to a piece of code or to a specific technology. This allows us to provide unbiased advice that'll help optimize your app.
Expertise/Experience
All our software engineers are experts who have either worked at top-level companies like Amazon or hold PHDs. They have worked on dozens of apps and share their respective experiences with each other in order to cover as much ground as possible.
What do we actually do?
A senior team going through every layer of your app — nothing left unchecked.
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Experience & compliance
We deliver massive value to ambitious entrepreneurs who understand that surrounding themselves with the right people is the key to success.
Umedia
A film production company that has invested $670M in over 500 movies. They came to us when they hit a plateau. We helped them increase their investments by 60% without growing the team — modeling their business and automating the recurring tasks that held them back.
Yields.io
The founder came to us with an idea while still holding a day job. We challenged it and built the first version of the product, which helped raise €1.25M from VC firms. Six years and a few rounds later, the company has 35 people, and we're still working together daily, mainly through coaching sessions.
Sharingbox
We helped Sharingbox simplify the sequence of actions needed to deploy their technology in the real world. We mapped their internal processes and built the tools to standardize them, making the company twice as efficient — which also eased knowledge transfer when the founders came to exit.
e-maprod
We helped e-maprod reorganize their team by putting all the cards on the table, hiring the right people, and giving teams a real sense of ownership so they could run autonomously — while optimizing internal workflows so they could stop relying on spreadsheets.
Frequently asked questions
What does a technical codebase audit cover?
Depending on the system, we examine areas such as application architecture, code quality, infrastructure, dependencies, security, deployment processes, maintainability and technical risks.
The objective is not to produce a generic quality score.
It is to identify which issues genuinely matter to the business and which ones can safely remain as they are.
Why use an external team for a code audit?
Teams working with the same codebase every day naturally adapt to its constraints.
An external senior engineer can challenge assumptions and distinguish between harmless technical imperfections and issues that could become expensive or risky.
Because 26lights has no obligation to replace your team or rebuild your software, the recommendation can remain focused on what is actually necessary.
Is a code audit useful before fundraising or due diligence?
Yes.
Investors and acquirers may examine technical architecture, security, maintainability, infrastructure and key-person dependencies.
An audit can identify issues before they appear in due diligence and provide a realistic remediation plan.
Does an audit automatically lead to a development project with 26lights?
No.
The deliverable should be actionable by your current team, another provider or 26lights.
That independence is important: the person identifying risks should not need to exaggerate them in order to sell a rebuild.
What do we receive at the end?
A clear assessment of the main technical risks and a prioritized list of actions.
We distinguish what needs immediate attention from what can wait and what does not justify intervention at all.
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