Platform Readiness Review.
The Platform Readiness Review is a fixed-fee, fixed-duration assessment of your production Kubernetes platform. In two to four weeks, senior engineers review your architecture, operations, and platform health against real evidence, and deliver a findings report prioritized by impact and urgency. If you continue into a build with us, part of the fee is credited.
- Fixed fee
- 2–4 weeks
- Prioritized findings report
What it is
An evidence-based read on your platform, organized by priority.
A senior platform engineer reviews your Kubernetes infrastructure using real evidence: configuration, deployments, telemetry, and the delivery pipeline. You learn which problems matter most, why, and how to address them, each finding tied to the artifact that proves it.
The goal is to give your platform lead an independent, defensible list of where to spend engineering time, so that whatever comes next (an internal sprint, a build project, or outsourced operations) targets the right things. We assess the platform, not the team. Organizational and process review is a separate engagement.
Independent, third-party
Vendor-neutral and objective: no partner tier or referral fee behind any recommendation
Evidence-based
Grounded in logs, metrics, and configuration, not interviews about how things should work
Priority-first
Findings ranked by impact and urgency, so next quarter's work is obvious
Executive-readable
A summary your leadership can act on, backed by findings your engineers can verify
What we look at
Three lenses, all technical.
We review the platform from three angles (how it is built, how it is operated, and how healthy it runs day to day), using the same evidence for each. Organizational and process review is a separate engagement.
Architecture and capacity
Whether the platform's design will still hold as workloads and teams grow.
Cluster topology, capacity model, and version posture, including end-of-life timelines
Networking: CNI, ingress, service mesh, DNS, traffic management
Workload patterns, namespace and tenancy model, resource requests and limits, scheduling
Storage and stateful workloads: volume types, backup posture, data locality
Availability and failure domains: replica counts, anti-affinity, multi-zone readiness
Operations and delivery
How the platform behaves in real use: the technical mechanics, not team process.
GitOps and delivery discipline: promotion model, rollback mechanisms, drift control
Observability stack: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alert configuration
Resiliency posture: failure recovery design, dependency mapping, blast-radius containment
Lifecycle management: upgrade cadence, addon currency, deprecation exposure
Infrastructure-as-Code adoption: declarative coverage, secret management
Platform health
The day-to-day condition of the platform and the standing cost of running it.
Cost and waste: utilization, over-provisioning, autoscaling effectiveness, idle and orphan resources, GPU utilization where applicable
Operational security hygiene: RBAC posture, Pod Security baseline, network policies, secrets management, image sourcing
Configuration drift: declarative vs. imperative state, observed drift between source of truth and running clusters
Cost findings are observations and prioritized recommendations, not a FinOps program. Where deeper cost work is warranted, we scope it separately.
Who this is for
Built for teams like these.
Any technical organization that wants an accurate, independent read on the current state of its platform.
No platform yet? Then this isn't your entry point. Ask us about an Implementation Project or a Managed Platform that includes the build.
Teams that inherited a platform
Understand the current environment, fast
Get a clear picture of a platform inherited from a departed team, an acquisition, or a previous vendor.
Fast-growing organizations
Spot the risks before growth does
Identify scaling bottlenecks, security gaps, and operational debt before traffic and headcount expose them.
Teams considering outsourcing operations
An objective baseline before you delegate
Establish the platform's actual state before handing operations to any partner, including us.
CTOs and engineering leaders
A defensible investment plan
Show leadership, with evidence, where and in what order to invest platform engineering time.
How we work
Evidence first. Interviews only where the evidence is unclear.
The Review works from your platform's configuration, deployments, telemetry, and delivery pipeline, not from interviews about how things are supposed to work.
Days
1–2
Discovery
We agree how we'll see the evidence. Three options, chosen at signature to fit your security policy: read-only access to clusters, IaC, observability, and pipelines; a screen-share where your engineer runs agreed commands; or exported artifacts you provide.
Weeks
1–3
Assessment
We review the platform through the three lenses. Every observation is linked to a specific piece of evidence: a config file, a deployment, a dashboard, a metric.
Final week
Report
You receive a written findings report, grouped by lens and priority, each finding with its evidence and our recommended response. Fully auditable: anyone on your team can trace any finding to its source.
Final day
Discussion
We walk your platform team and engineering leaders through the report, answer questions, and agree which gaps matter now and which can wait.
Every finding is tied to real data. Interviews only supplement where technical evidence is ambiguous.
What you receive
A complete, citable package.
Inventory
Platform inventory
Clusters, products, configurations, ownership, and dependencies, exactly as observed.
Report
Findings report
Technical observations across the three lenses, each tied to a specific piece of evidence.
Priorities
Prioritized recommendations
A clear read on what to address next quarter and what can safely wait.
Handover
Closing meeting
A walkthrough for your team and leadership; we can record the session for internal sharing.
Credited toward what comes next.
If you start an Implementation Project or a Managed Platform with us within 90 days of the Review, part of the assessment fee is deducted from that engagement.
Frequently asked
What teams ask before they start.
How long does a Platform Readiness Review take?
Two to four weeks, fixed at the start. The exact duration depends on the size of the platform and how much evidence there is to work through, and it is agreed before the engagement begins; the review does not run open-ended.
How is the review priced?
As a fixed fee, agreed up front and billed in KRW. There is no time-and-materials meter. If an Implementation Project or Managed Platform engagement starts within 90 days of the review, part of the review fee is credited toward it.
What do we receive at the end?
A findings report prioritized by impact and urgency. Every finding cites the evidence behind it (configuration, metrics, or logs), so your team can verify each conclusion and act on the report without Todea in the room.
What do you need from our team?
Read access to the platform and its configuration first; the review is evidence-based, and interviews are used only where the evidence is unclear. Expect a handful of focused sessions rather than weeks of workshops.
What happens after the review?
The report stands on its own: many teams fix the findings themselves. If you want help, the findings map directly onto an Implementation Project or a Managed Platform engagement, and starting either within 90 days credits part of the review fee.
Two to four weeks to a clear picture.
Start with a fixed-fee Platform Readiness Review.
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