Software audit and technical due diligence of the system your revenue runs on
A WWG software audit is an independent two to four week technical due diligence of your production software: the same discipline applied before an acquisition, run for the company that already owns the system rather than for a buyer. Senior engineers examine the architecture, the code, the delivery process and the team, and hand you a written report that says what is at risk, what it takes to fix, and in what order.
Clarity before you commit to a rebuild, an acquisition, or another year of patching.
Definition
What is a software audit
When a production system starts failing in ways nobody can explain, the first problem is not the code — it is that no one can state, with evidence, what is actually at risk. A software audit is the independent engineering review that answers that question, and a WWG software audit runs it for the company that already owns the system rather than for a buyer: over two to four weeks senior engineers read the architecture, the code, the delivery process and the incident history, and interview the people who keep the system running. It ends with one written report — every finding ranked by business impact, with effort estimates and a single recommendation to fix, rebuild or run — and a working session in which WWG defends each conclusion. It begins with a conversation with a WWG founder, and it stands on its own: nothing obliges the client to continue afterwards.
Recognition
When you need a software audit
Every release breaks something new, and nobody can explain why.
You inherited a system nobody fully understands. The people who built it are gone.
Your board, your bank or your acquirer is asking hard questions about the software your revenue depends on. You do not have defensible answers.
The team says everything is fine. Delivery keeps slipping anyway.
You are about to sign off on an expensive rebuild and want an independent second opinion first.
If one of these sounds like your Tuesday, keep reading.
Deliverable
What the audit report contains
One written report, in language leadership can act on:
Architecture and code
What is solid, what is fragile, where the next failure starts.
Security and compliance posture
Real exposure, not a checklist.
Delivery process
Why releases hurt.
Team assessment
Can the current team carry the system forward, and with what support.
A prioritized risk map
Every finding ranked by business impact, with effort estimates.
One clear recommendation
Fix, rebuild, or run. With the reasoning on paper.
The report is yours. What you do with it is your decision.
Process
How the audit works
A conversation with a founder
A conversation with a founder
We arrive within a week
We arrive within a week
Weeks one to three
Weeks one to three
Final week
Final week
You decide what happens next
You decide what happens next
The engagement
The audit in concrete terms
- Duration
- Two to four weeks, depending on the size and criticality of the system.
- Start
- Within a week of agreeing scope. No months of onboarding.
- Who does the work
- WWG senior engineers. A founder follows the engagement and runs the final session with leadership.
- What we need from you
- Access to code and environments, a few hours of interviews, one point of contact. Your team keeps working.
- Output
- A written report: every finding ranked by business impact, effort estimates, one recommendation. Plus a working session in which we defend each conclusion.
- Format
- A standalone engagement with scope and duration fixed before we start. No obligation to continue with us.
The price is set before we start, in the scoping conversation, based on what has to be examined. We do not publish a price list: two systems with the same revenue can need very different audits.
Comparison
A software audit and the alternatives
When a production system starts hurting, four things with similar names and different purposes land on the table. This table says what each one is for, so the choice is made on the question you need answered rather than on the label.
| Criterio | WWG software audit | Technical due diligence | Source code audit | Audit management software |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who it is for | The company that already owns the system: CEO, CFO, board, CTO. | Whoever is buying, investing or lending. | A technical team that wants a reading of the code alone. | Quality and compliance functions running internal inspections. |
| Question it answers | What is at risk, what it costs to fix, in what order. | What the software asset is worth and what it risks in the deal. | Is the code maintainable, tested, secure? | How do we plan and track our checks. |
| What it covers | Architecture, code, security and compliance, delivery process, team, incident history. | Stack, intellectual property, scalability, team; often on a timeline compressed by the deal. | Source code, dependencies, tests, vulnerabilities. | Not a review: a software tool with checklists and dashboards. |
| Duration | Two to four weeks. | Set by the deal calendar. | A few days to a few weeks. | In continuous use. |
| Output | A written report with every finding ranked by impact and effort, one recommendation (fix, rebuild or run) and a working session with leadership. | A due diligence report for the acquirer. | A technical report and a backlog for the team. | A register of checks. |
| What happens next | You decide: on your own, with others, or with WWG. | Closing, renegotiation or walking away. | The team works the backlog. | The inspection cycle continues. |
If you are looking for a program to manage internal audits and inspections, this is not the right page. This page is about the engineering review of a software system in production.
Related services
Where the work goes after the audit
If you need the narrower read, on the codebase alone, that is a source code audit. If the question is regulatory exposure and security posture, look at compliance and security auditing.
And when the audit confirms the system is worth keeping alive, the next step is stabilizing the production software.
Proof
Track record
Luxury & Fashion
An Italian luxury group brought us in to examine critical production software. The methodology on this page took that engagement from first call to strategic engineering partnership in two months. We audit the way operators audit: to find what breaks, not to produce a binder.
Financial Services
A mid-market financial services company asked us to audit a payments platform after three consecutive failed releases. Within two weeks we identified a coupling problem in the transaction pipeline that their team had been patching around for over a year. The fix was structural, not heroic.
Manufacturing & IoT
A European manufacturer running mission-critical IoT infrastructure needed clarity before a board decision on rebuilding vs. extending. Our audit mapped 14 interdependent services, identified the three that carried all the risk, and gave leadership a sequenced plan they could defend to investors.
Healthcare
A digital health platform under regulatory pressure engaged us to assess security posture and delivery process. We delivered a compliance-grade report in three weeks that satisfied their auditor and gave engineering a concrete remediation roadmap prioritized by patient safety impact.
E-Commerce
An international e-commerce group inherited a platform through acquisition. Nobody on the current team had built it. We reverse-engineered the architecture, documented the critical paths, and gave the CTO the confidence to make a build-vs-buy decision backed by evidence rather than opinion.
Published case studies
- Neotecnica: code audit and security hardening
Over 13,000 issues identified, more than 19 vulnerabilities fixed and a high-availability Kubernetes cluster delivered on the back of the findings.
The team
Who runs the audit
WWG is the team European mid-market companies call when critical production software is under pressure and the in-house team plus the usual suspects cannot stabilize it.
Twenty-six years of track record. International senior engineers who ship under conditions most teams cannot imagine.
The people who audit your system are the people who would fix it.
FAQ
Questions leadership asks us
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