Get a senior-architect review of your backend design with trade-offs, risks, and a prioritised fix list
An ADR-grade architecture review covering service boundaries, data model, API surface, reliability topology, and capacity. Every finding is graded and accompanied by a specific recommendation.
Get Started — $29/moWhere teams get stuck
- Senior architects are expensive and rarely available when a design actually needs a second pair of eyes
- Internal architecture reviews get politicised — whoever designed it defends it
- Trade-offs get described as "we chose X" without naming what was given up
- Reliability, cost, and team-topology concerns live in three separate documents that nobody reads together
- Post-review action items drift without clear owners or severity
What you walk away with
- Independent architecture assessment covering service decomposition, data model, and API surface
- Reliability review: failure domains, blast radius, retry/backoff, replayability
- Capacity and cost model with scaling inflection points
- Explicitly-named trade-offs with the alternatives considered
- Prioritised remediation list (critical / high / medium) with rough effort estimates
How it works
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Upload or describe the current architecture
Share the system diagram, component descriptions, tech stack, scale targets, and the decision history if you have ADRs.
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Run the Backend Architect
Produces a structured review across decomposition, data, API, reliability, and operations.
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Stack the Database Optimizer and SRE
For deep data-layer and reliability review, chain these specialists to produce focused deliverables.
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Close the findings
Each finding has a suggested fix, effort estimate, and relevant trade-offs. Triage with your team.
Specialists that run this use case
Backend Architect
Design and deliver scalable, secure, performant server-side systems — including service decomposition, database...
Software Architect
Design software architectures that balance domain alignment, scalability, maintainability, and reversibility —...
Database Optimizer
Design schemas, write queries, and tune indexes that perform correctly under load — eliminating N+1 patterns, enabling...
SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)
Define reliability targets, build the observability that answers "why is this broken?" in minutes, automate toil away,...
Security Engineer
Identify, classify, and remediate security vulnerabilities across application code, APIs, infrastructure, and the...
DevOps Automator
Design and implement CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, container orchestration, monitoring, and deployment...
Frequently asked questions
Does it work for monoliths as well as microservices?
Yes — the Backend Architect classifies your topology (monolith, modular monolith, microservices, serverless) and applies the matching review checklist. Modular monoliths in particular get a dedicated boundary review.
Can I share the output with my team?
Yes. The deliverable is formatted for sharing — most customers paste the severity-graded findings directly into their issue tracker as tickets.