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Free Technical Risk Audit for Startup Founders

Is Your Startup Ready
for a Investor Technical Review?

Most founders don't know they have critical technical risks in their product until it's too late — a breach, an IP risk, or a deal killed by due diligence. This free 30-question audit finds them before they find you.

💼 IP & Legal 🔒 Security 📋 Compliance ☁️ Infrastructure ⚙️ Tech Debt 📈 Funding Readiness
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Free  ·  8 minutes  ·  No login required  ·  $47 full report available at the end
30
Questions
6
Risk Areas
8
Minutes
200+
Startups Benchmarked
The Problem

If You Can't Answer These Questions,
You Have a Problem

Ownership Risk

"Who actually owns your code if your developer left tomorrow?"

Security Risk

"Have independent security reviews, penetration tests, or architecture assessments been performed?"

Investor Risk

"Could you explain your technical architecture to an investor without freezing?"

These aren't trick questions. They're a few of the obvious questions an investor's CTO asks before signing off on a deal. And they're the exact situations that end companies overnight — not hackers in hoodies, but a missing IP agreement, a plain-text password database, or a cloud bill that arrived 30 days after a $50,000 misconfiguration.

Most non-technical founders have no idea these risks exist until it's too late. That's not a failure of intelligence — it's a failure of access to CTO-level judgment. The Clarity Audit gives you that judgment. For free.

The Solution

30 Questions. 8 Minutes.
One CTO Verdict.

Built by Steve Thomas — Fractional CTO with 30 years advising bootstrapped and pre-seed startups. The Clarity Audit covers the six areas where early-stage startups are most likely to have hidden problems:

  • 💼 IP & Legal — who owns your code, do contracts protect you
  • 🔒 Security Basics — passwords, MFA, secrets, encryption
  • 📋 Data & Compliance — GDPR, CCPA, privacy, breach response
  • ☁️ Infrastructure — backups, monitoring, cloud costs, deployments
  • ⚙️ Tech Debt & Scalability — codebase health, testing, 10x resilience
  • 📈 Funding Readiness — can your tech survive due diligence
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How It Works

Three Steps to Knowing Where You Stand

1
Take the Free Audit
Answer 30 plain-English questions about your startup's technology. Takes 8 minutes. No login, no credit card, no technical knowledge required.
2
Get Your Free Risk Score
Instantly see your risk score across all six categories — color-coded Critical, Concerning, or Solid. Your dashboard shows exactly where your risks are.
3
Get Your Full CTO Report ($47)
Expert CTO commentary on every answer, benchmarks against 200+ bootstrapped startups, specific tool recommendations, and a personalized 90-day action plan.
What You Get

What You Get

Free Audit
$0 — Always free
  • All 30 questions across 6 risk areas
  • Live scoring as you answer
  • Why-this-matters for every question
  • Color-coded risk verdict per category
  • Top priority issues list
  • CTO commentary on your answers
  • Peer startup benchmarks
  • Tool recommendations with costs
  • 90-day action plan
  • Downloadable PDF report
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Steve Thomas · Fractional CTO · 30 Years
Built By

Built by a CTO Who Has Seen These Mistakes Kill Companies

Steve Thomas is a Fractional CTO with 30 years of experience advising bootstrapped and pre-seed startups. He has sat in on hundreds of investor due diligence processes, seen deals collapse over missing IP agreements, watched companies lose years of data because nobody tested their backups, and helped founders rebuild after security breaches that should never have happened.

The Clarity Audit is built from everything he has learned — distilled into 30 questions any founder can answer in 8 minutes, producing the same risk picture he would produce after a full technical review.

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Audit Coverage

Six Risk Areas. Every Startup
Has Gaps in At Least Two.

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IP & Legal
Who actually owns your code? Do your contracts protect you if a developer walks? Have you checked your open-source license exposure?
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Security Basics
Are passwords stored safely? Is MFA enforced? Are API keys and secrets outside your codebase? When did you last run a security scan?
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Data & Compliance
Is your privacy policy accurate? Can you handle a GDPR deletion request? Do you know where your customer data lives and who can access it?
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Infrastructure
Are your backups tested? Do you find out about outages before your customers do? Would a cloud billing spike bankrupt you?
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Tech Debt & Scalability
Could your codebase survive a 10x traffic spike? Is there code nobody wants to touch? Could a new developer understand your product in a week?
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Funding Readiness
Can you explain your architecture to an investor in 3 minutes? Have you seen your product the way a CTO doing due diligence would see it?
Get Started

Your Startup Has Risks.
Find Them Before
Your Investors Do.

8 minutes. 30 questions. One honest verdict on the technical risks in your startup — from a Fractional CTO with 30 years of experience. Free to take. $47 for the full report.

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