BuiltForProd by Nexstella
Answer infrastructure questions with evidence
Infrastructure due diligence asks who can reach production, how changes ship, how you recover and who could run it all. BuiltForProd assesses those areas in writing so you answer from evidence. The outcome stays with the people reviewing.
Yes, no or don't know. Gaps grouped by area, with no score. Start the self-check →
01 How we work
What an infrastructure review gives you
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Findings tied to evidence
Each finding points at a configuration, a repository or a conversation, so anyone reading the report can check it for themselves instead of taking a summary on trust.
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The same picture for both sides
A founder sees what to fix before the questions arrive. An acquirer sees what the setup is today and what it would take to bring it up to the level they expect.
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An order of work, not a verdict
Findings are prioritized and paired with a phased plan, so a gap becomes a scoped piece of work with an owner rather than a vague worry in a data room.
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Written for two kinds of reader
A short summary serves the people making the decision, and the detail serves the engineers who will do the work, both drawn from the same findings.
What we'll tell you
The review describes the infrastructure as it is. It cannot change what reviewers conclude, and it is not a certification, an attestation, a penetration test or a score.
Self-check
Ten questions a diligence team tends to ask
Answer yes, no or don't know for each one. Gaps are grouped by area, with no score. Three or more answers of no mean the infrastructure carries risk you can already name.
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Can you produce a current list of who has administrator access to production? Access
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Are former employees and contractors removed from every cloud account? Access
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Is all production infrastructure described in code held in your own repositories? Infrastructure code
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Do the cloud accounts and the code repositories belong to the company, not to a person? Ownership
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Is there a written record of how production is laid out and why? Ownership
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Do releases follow one reviewed path that leaves a trail of who changed what? Delivery
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Is customer data separated from test and development data? Architecture
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Has a restore from backup been tested and written down? Recovery
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Are logs kept centrally where an administrator cannot quietly delete them? Evidence
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Could the platform run for a month without its most senior engineer? Ownership
Your gaps, grouped
Answer any question, and the gaps gather here by area. Nothing is scored.
Up to two answers of no or don't know
A few gaps
Few gaps, and you can likely back your answers with records. A written review still helps: it puts the evidence in one place before anyone asks for it.
Three to five answers of no or don't know
Risk you can name
The infrastructure carries risk you can name, grouped in the areas above. Knowing those gaps early lets you fix some and explain the rest with a plan.
Six or more answers of no or don't know
Many gaps
Many answers rest on memory rather than records. Start with ownership and access, because they are the quickest to check and the hardest to explain away.
Access
- Can you produce a current list of who has administrator access to production?
- Are former employees and contractors removed from every cloud account?
Infrastructure code
- Is all production infrastructure described in code held in your own repositories?
Ownership
- Do the cloud accounts and the code repositories belong to the company, not to a person?
- Is there a written record of how production is laid out and why?
- Could the platform run for a month without its most senior engineer?
Delivery
- Do releases follow one reviewed path that leaves a trail of who changed what?
Architecture
- Is customer data separated from test and development data?
Recovery
- Has a restore from backup been tested and written down?
Evidence
- Are logs kept centrally where an administrator cannot quietly delete them?
How it starts
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A 30-minute call about the timeline
Tell an engineer which side of the process you are on, when questions are expected and what the infrastructure looks like. You learn whether an assessment fits that timeline.
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A fixed fee and a clear scope
The scope names the systems, the access needed and the questions to answer, with a fixed fee quoted before work starts.
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Review and written findings
Engineers combine conversations, documentation and configuration evidence, then deliver findings, prioritized recommendations, a future-state design and a phased plan.
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Questions after delivery
Once the report is in your hands you can ask the engineers about any finding, and they clarify or refine it within the agreed scope. Doing the fixes is a separate decision.
Ready to talk it through?
Book a call with BuiltForProd02 A typical situation
What this usually looks like
A typical case: a founder preparing for an investment round expects technical questions. The product runs well, but the cloud accounts were opened on a personal card, a contractor still has access, and nothing about the setup is written down.
We would start with ownership and access, because those answers must be true before anything else is worth describing. Then we would review the rest of the infrastructure and write findings with a plan, so the founder can show what is in place and what is being fixed.
03 Questions
Questions people ask
No. The review describes the infrastructure and what to do about it. Valuation and the result of diligence are decided by the people on the other side of the table, and we never suggest otherwise.
Book a call and describe the situation and the access you can arrange. The engineer will tell you whether an assessment fits the timeline and what it would need from the target.
The self-check is a quick way to see your own gaps. The assessment is an engagement in which engineers look at the actual setup and write findings, a future-state design and a phased plan.
Read access to the accounts and repositories in scope, whatever documents already exist, and time with the people who run production today. Arranging access early keeps the review on schedule.
04 Book a call
Prepare your answers before the questions arrive
Book a call with BuiltForProd. Bring the timeline and what you already know about your gaps, and leave knowing what a review would cover.
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