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Is your vendor's work any good?
Many founders and managers pay an agency or freelancers every month for a product they cannot inspect themselves. The demos look fine, but releases slip, the estimate keeps growing, the same bugs come back, and nobody can answer a simple question: if this vendor disappeared tomorrow, could anyone else take over?
An independent code review answers that with evidence from the code and the infrastructure, not from the vendor's status report. It is the same fixed-price technical audit we run before investments, pointed at one question: is the work you are paying for sound?
Signs it is time for a second opinion
- Every estimate grows after it is approved, and change requests arrive for things you thought were included.
- Releases are announced but you cannot open and test them yourself.
- The same bugs return after being "fixed".
- You do not have admin access to the code repository, the hosting account or the domain.
- The vendor is the only one who can explain how anything works.
- You are about to sign a large new phase or switch vendors and want to know what you have.
What we check
| Area | Question we answer |
|---|---|
| Ownership | Do you own the code, cloud accounts, domains, app store accounts and credentials? |
| Code | Could another competent team understand and change it? Are there tests? |
| Security | Are passwords, keys and personal data handled safely? Are dependencies up to date? |
| Infrastructure | Are there backups, monitoring and a repeatable deployment? |
| Estimates and pace | Is the quote complete and fair, and is the delivery speed reasonable for the team size? |
| Process | Are there tickets, code review and a staging environment you can use? |
What you get
- A plain verdict on one page: keep going, fix specific things, or plan a change of vendor.
- A ranked list of problems with evidence, and the cost and time to fix each one.
- An estimate review if you have a quote on the table.
- A 60-minute call to go through it, and if you want, a joint call with the vendor to discuss the findings.
Price and timing
A fixed $3,500, two weeks from the moment we have read access. The review is a separate engagement and does not depend on buying development from us. If you then want ongoing oversight of the vendor, Anton can continue as your fractional CTO from $2,500 a month, so the vendor is checked every week, not once.
Need a faster answer on one question, such as whether a single agency quote or one codebase is sound? The second opinion is a fixed $490: Anton reviews it and sends a written verdict within 48 hours. If it shows that a full review is needed, you can move on to the audit.
Why the review is independent
We are a development company too, so we keep the review separate from any sales: the report is written for whoever does the work next, the vendor gets a fair hearing, and if you later ask us to quote the fixes, we say so in writing and you are free to compare quotes. Before hiring any vendor, our guide on how to choose a software development company lists the questions that prevent most of these problems.
Who does the review
Anton Lytvynov, the founder of Lytvynov Production, has worked in software since 2011 as a business analyst, developer and team lead, including payment systems for more than 30 Match Group sites at Meetic and two payment products built from zero at Anycommerce. He leads the architecture of every product our team builds, and has managed outsourced and fully remote teams, so he knows both sides of a client-vendor relationship.
