Startups
Product platform for an early-stage company
From a working demo to an architecture that can take customers
Situation
The product was assembled to win the first ten users. Environments are shared. Secrets live in a chat. The founder is the deployment pipeline. An enterprise prospect has just asked for a security questionnaire the team cannot answer honestly.
Approach
How we would run it.
01
Name the product boundary, the data that must not leak, and the path from commit to production.
02
Put identity, environments, backups, and logging in before the next feature sprint.
03
Separate the demo path from the operating path so sales does not share production.
04
Leave a written architecture a new engineer can join without a week of folklore.
Target outcomes
Targets for a programme of this class — not claimed results from a named client.
- Weeks
- Time to a defensible security baseline
- 1
- Path from commit to production
- Joinable
- Architecture a hire can inherit
Practices involved
More programmes
Next step
Bring us the hard programme.
If the work needs architecture, security, and a team that will still be there at go-live, we should talk. Discovery conversations are with a senior architect — not a queue.