A fixed-scope, five-week engineering assessment of your existing IoT or embedded product. Yalantis reviews architecture, codebase, firmware, and security posture, then hands you a board-ready recommendation backed by real effort estimates — before you commit a cent.
Technical assessment of legacy product
$40,000
fixed fee
5
weeks
duration
5
artifacts
deliverables
Read-only
repo access
You know the codebase is slowing you down. You just don’t know what to do about it.
Modernizing an aging IoT or embedded product is one of the highest-stakes calls a CTO makes — and one of the least informed. Without an honest engineering view, every option is a coin flip with a big number attached. This assessment turns that coin flip into a decision your board will actually approve.
Velocity The velocity tax
Your engineering team spends more cycles patching than shipping. Every quarter on legacy is a quarter your competitors keep moving — and a quarter your team loses faith the rebuild will ever happen.
Funding The funding deadlock
Leadership won’t approve a rebuild without a number. The team can’t quote a number without an assessment. So the product stays stuck, the spec docs gather dust, and the codebase keeps aging.
The wrong-path risk
Picking rebuild when refactor would have worked — or refactor when only a replatform fixes it — burns 12 to 24 months and a generation of engineering trust. The path matters as much as the timing.
Five artifacts. Built so a CTO can take them to the board
Every engagement produces the same five deliverables, scoped to your specific product. Not consulting theatre — working documents your engineering, product, and executive teams use the day they land.
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Architecture — Architecture & codebase health review
Architecture diagram of your current product, measured against design patterns and engineering best practices. Codebase metrics on size, complexity, coupling, test coverage, and the hotspots where most of the change pain lives.
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Security— Firmware & security posture assessment
Review of the firmware update pipeline, authentication, encryption, secrets handling, and known CVE exposure across your dependencies. Cybersecurity risks flagged with severity ratings, so remediation is already prioritized.
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Debt — Technical-debt & maintainability map
Every painful module, missing test, undocumented decision, and brittle integration mapped and ranked. Maintainability scored against industry baselines, so the conversation moves from “this feels bad” to “this is 3.2 standard deviations off.”
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Decision — Build vs. rebuild vs. replatform recommendation
The three paths costed side by side with effort estimates, risk flags, and trade-offs. A defensible recommendation from Yalantis — not a hedge — with the engineering reasoning the call rests on, so your board sees how we got there.
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Roadmap — Board-ready modernization roadmap
Sequenced plan with timelines, resource estimates, milestones, and a phased budget. Sized so your CFO sees a budget envelope, not a black box — and so your engineering leads see a real plan they can execute against.
Five weeks. Read-only repo access. No production touch required.
This assessment works best when Yalantis can see actual code. Unlike a desk audit, the engineering value comes from reading the codebase, firmware, and architecture — not the documentation around them. We need read-only access to your repository and structured interviews with your engineering and product leads. That’s it.
W1 — Codebase & architecture review Read-only repo access. We map the architecture, measure complexity and coupling, and identify the hotspots where most of your team’s time disappears.
W2 — Stakeholder interviews Structured calls with engineering, product, and operations leads. We understand the business pressure, market window, and what “done” actually means for your roadmap.
W3 — Firmware, security & debt assessment Firmware update mechanism, security posture, dependency CVE exposure. Technical-debt and maintainability mapped against industry baselines, ranked by impact.
W4 — Build vs. rebuild vs. replatform The three paths costed out side by side with effort estimates and risk flags. A defensible recommendation, with the engineering reasoning fully exposed.
W5 — Roadmap & executive walkthrough You receive all five deliverables and a live walkthrough session with your engineering and executive leadership. Q&A included, follow-up optional.
Kickoff within 10 business days of signed scope.
Built for product companies stuck on what to do about their legacy stack.
If your product was architected before the cloud-native era, before secure-by-default thinking, before Rust was a serious option for embedded — and it’s now blocking your roadmap or your next market — you’re the buyer. These are the three sectors where Yalantis has seen the gap between “we know it’s bad” and “we know what to do” hurt the most.
Industrial automation & manufacturing
Embedded products with codebases that pre-date the engineers maintaining them. The team knows the rebuild is needed but can’t quote the number. The assessment turns “we think this is bad” into a board-ready cost. For: Engineering Director, CTO, Principal Embedded Engineer.
Connected hardware
Asset trackers and telematics hardware with firmware lineages that go back generations of hardware revisions. Modernizing means re-deciding build vs. rebuild vs. replatform — exactly the question this assessment answers. For: VP Product, CTO, Hardware Lead, Firmware Lead.
EV charging companies
Aging OCPP-versioned charging stacks, reliability and scaling pain, and a competitive market that punishes slow iteration. The assessment gives engineering leadership the ammunition to make the replatform case to the board. For: CTO, VP Engineering, Lead Firmware Engineer, Platform Architect.
Get your assessment on the calendar before another quarter goes by on legacy.
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