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Production Readiness
Assessment

With Focus on Incident Response & Operational Resilience

Before your service goes live, ensure your team is ready when (not if) things go wrong. Comprehensive assessment of your production readiness—covering traditional services and AI systems—with deep focus on incident response capabilities.

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When You Need This

Proactive preparation or reactive response—both paths benefit from understanding your readiness

🎯 Proactive Triggers

  • Launching a new service, product, or AI feature
  • Scaling to new regions or markets
  • Platform migrations or infrastructure changes
  • Preparing for high-traffic events
  • Post-funding growth phase
  • Team restructuring or rapid hiring

🔥 Reactive Triggers

  • ! Recent major incident with significant impact
  • ! On-call burnout affecting team morale
  • ! Recurring incidents and pattern failures
  • ! SLA breaches and customer complaints
  • ! Revenue loss from downtime
  • ! Leadership pressure for operational improvements

Incidents Are Just a Symptom

The real problem runs deeper

Most teams treat incidents as isolated technical failures

But recurring incidents reveal deeper operational issues: unclear ownership, broken handoffs, missing runbooks, chaotic on-call rotations, poor communication patterns, and gaps in operational readiness.

Reactive Fire-Fighting

Teams spend their time responding to alerts rather than preventing them. No time to improve because you're always fighting fires.

Unclear Ownership

When incidents happen, nobody knows who should respond. Escalation paths are unclear and response times suffer.

Broken Communication

Information doesn't flow during incidents. Stakeholders aren't updated, teams work in silos, and chaos reigns.

On-Call Burnout

Your best engineers are paged constantly. No proper handoffs, inadequate runbooks, and unsustainable rotations.

No Learning Loop

Post-mortems gather dust. Action items never get done. The same incidents keep happening because nothing changes.

Operational Gaps

Missing monitoring, unclear procedures, no disaster recovery plans, and unknown dependencies waiting to break.

I've Been in the War Room

Throughout my career, I've managed incidents across industries and company stages. I've been in the room when banks went down, when SaaS platforms lost customer data, when healthcare systems went offline, and when startups faced their first major outage. From scrappy founding teams to enterprise corporations, I've seen what works and what doesn't when systems fail and pressure is high.

That experience taught me that the best teams don't just fix technical problems—they fix the processes, communication patterns, and operational gaps that allowed those problems to happen in the first place.

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The Production Readiness Assessment

Comprehensive 4-week diagnostic covering operational maturity, incident response, and production resilience

What I Examine

  • Incident response processes & patterns
  • On-call rotations & escalation paths
  • Communication flows & stakeholder updates
  • Post-mortem practices & learning loops
  • Runbooks, documentation & knowledge gaps
  • Monitoring coverage & alerting strategy
  • AI-specific operational concerns (model behavior, fallbacks, observability)
  • Team capacity & operational readiness

What You Get

  • Review of 5-10 recent incidents
  • Interviews with 6-8 team members
  • Operational maturity scorecard
  • Gap analysis with root causes
  • Prioritized improvement roadmap
  • Smart automation & AI recommendations
  • Quick wins you can implement immediately
  • 90-min findings workshop with leadership
Fixed Price
€15,000
4-week engagement

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How It Works

A structured approach to diagnosing and improving your operations

1

Kickoff

Align on goals, access requirements, and key stakeholders. Set expectations for the engagement.

2

Data Gathering

Review incident history, documentation, and processes. Interview team members across roles.

3

Analysis

Identify patterns, root causes, and systemic issues. Benchmark against industry practices.

4

Roadmap

Build prioritized improvement plan with quick wins, medium-term projects, and long-term goals.

5

Presentation

Present findings and recommendations in an interactive workshop with leadership and key stakeholders.

6

Handoff

Deliver full documentation, answer questions, and discuss potential follow-on work if desired.

What Changes

Real improvements across incident response and operational practices

🎯

Fewer Repeat Incidents

Address root causes instead of symptoms. Break the cycle of recurring problems.

Faster Response

Clear ownership, better runbooks, and streamlined communication reduce MTTR significantly.

🔄

Better Processes

Fix broken workflows, communication gaps, and operational bottlenecks—not just code.

😌

Sustainable On-Call

Healthier rotations, better handoffs, and reduced burnout through improved operational practices.

🤝

Team Confidence

Everyone knows their role, has the tools they need, and feels prepared to respond.

📊

Clear Visibility

Leadership gets honest assessment of operational maturity and concrete improvement plan.

🚀

Capacity to Improve

Stop fire-fighting and create space for proactive operational improvements.

🛡️

Operational Resilience

Build systems and processes that can handle problems gracefully and recover quickly.

Beyond the Assessment

After uncovering what's broken, I can help you fix it

Process Design & Implementation

Build sustainable incident response, on-call, and operational processes tailored to your team. I'll help you automate and apply AI thoughtfully where it makes sense—no hype.

  • Custom incident response frameworks
  • On-call rotation design
  • Communication protocols
  • Runbook templates & automation

Post-Mortem Facilitation & Training

Lead critical post-mortems and train your team to conduct blameless, effective reviews.

  • Expert facilitation for major incidents
  • Facilitator training programs
  • Post-mortem templates & guides
  • Cultural transformation support

Ongoing Advisory

Retained support to continuously improve your operational practices and incident response.

  • Monthly review sessions
  • Process iteration guidance
  • Team coaching
  • Best practice consulting

Ready to Ship with Confidence?

Let's assess your production readiness and build your roadmap to operational excellence

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