Startup Readiness Review
An evidence-led review of whether a SaaS startup is ready for its next stage, with the risks, tasks and operating intent made visible.
Brokenhouse Consulting
SaaS CTO judgement for startups moving from idea to trusted production.
I help founders understand whether the company around the product is ready for the next stage: Company Ready, POC, Pilot, Production or scaling. The work combines SaaS CTO experience with an evidence-led operating model that turns company facts into readiness decisions, risks, tasks and policy intent.
Services
What I sell is the review, the judgement and the route through.
The public playbook shares the high-level thinking. The paid work applies that model to a real startup: evidence, readiness gates, risk visibility, policy direction and practical CTO decisions.
POC to Production CTO Advisory
Fractional SaaS CTO support for teams moving from promising prototype to customer-ready service without accidentally turning shortcuts into the operating model.
Azure, Identity and Trust Foundations
Azure and Microsoft 365 foundations for small SaaS teams: identity, domains, DNS, subscriptions, environments, private networking and production access.
How Brokenhouse helps
Senior technology judgement when the next stage needs more than code.
Brokenhouse works with founders, product leaders and small SaaS teams that need experienced CTO direction before the platform becomes harder to change. The work is practical: clarify the stage the company is in, inspect the evidence that exists and turn technical uncertainty into visible decisions.
That can mean shaping a POC so it does not accidentally become production, preparing a Pilot for external users, tightening Azure and Microsoft 365 foundations, or building the evidence customers expect before procurement and security review. The aim is not a heavy enterprise control model. It is enough governance, architecture and operational discipline for the risk the business is actually carrying.
The agentic repository makes the work repeatable: it holds the stage model, reference guidance, evidence loops, observations, risks, policy direction and assessment outputs. The value is not automation for its own sake. It is a CTO review process that can explain why a startup is ready, conditionally ready or blocked, and what needs to stay aligned afterwards.
The shape of the work
Public knowledge, private application.
The knowledge base and LinkedIn campaign share the principles: stage gates, data protection, identity, cloud foundations, production readiness and customer trust. The service applies those principles to a real company and produces the readiness view, evidence gaps, risks, policy direction and next actions a leadership team can use.