Your dev team says they're on track.
- Are they?
- Most founders we audit confirm what they already suspected: hidden problems no one flagged
- Signing $30K+ monthly invoices for work you cannot verify
- By month 12, the cost of the wrong dev team is your runway
No credit card. No commitment. NDA signed before we review anything.
Leadership experience at
Proof we have done this
Founders who shipped through what you're facing
MONMEDX
Before
Dev stalled. Offshore agency ghosted. Founder tried to CTO it himself.
After
EMR live in US and Canadian clinics. McGill University partnership.
If I have any regrets, it's that we didn't call BitLab sooner.
Dr. Ibrahim Ragui
Founder, MONMEDX
DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR?
Standups where you nod through updates you cannot verify. Slack threads that go silent for hours. Invoices for sprints no one on your side can grade. Most founders we work with had this gut feeling for months. They were right.
- Your team says they're on track every week
- You can't verify it
- The audit: senior read on what's shipped vs claimed
- Hidden in the average seed-stage codebase
- PHI in plaintext, no backups, hardcoded keys, zero tests
- Surfaces in diligence. Kills the round.
- Their tech advisor audited 40+ codebases this year
- They know what good looks like
- Most founders find out on the diligence call
- Some dev teams are excellent. Some are coasting.
- Sprint reports won't tell you which
- The audit reveals what ships and what's debt theater
The audit is free. The cost of trusting the wrong team for another 12 months is your runway.
Sample Audit
Here's What We Typically Find
This is a real (anonymized) audit from a seed-stage healthtech startup spending $35K/mo on an offshore team. Five findings. Three of them were invisible to the founder.
Technical Architecture Audit
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Full Audit Scope: 12 Categories
Every audit covers these areas. Here's one sample point from each.
Licenses & IP
3rd-party licenses, restrictions, IP
Technologies
Future-proof stack, growth-ready
Codebase
Testing, errors, docs, code review
Architecture
Maintainability, scalability, resilience
Operations
Monitoring, alerting, outage detection
Technology Cost
Cost per user, waste without efficiency loss
Revenue & Leakage
Leaks in payments and billing
Metrics & Systems
Data flow: app ↔ 3rd parties
Security
Medical, financial, PII data handling
Compliance
HIPAA, SOC2, HITRUST, PIPEDA, GDPR posture
Agentic ReadinessNew
Survive if AI replicates your workflows?
Team & Org EfficiencyNew
AI-replaceable roles, 5-person squad math
100+ audit points across 12 categories. Codebase AND team. Full report delivered in 48 hours.
EHR / EMR Integration Experience
and 40+ others
The audit is free. Another quarter of guessing is not.
Book the Free 48-Hour AuditHow It Works
4 Steps to Clarity
From first call to full report. Here's what happens.
Book a Call
(2 min)Pick a time. Tell us about your startup.
Discovery Call
(30 min)We learn your situation. Not the right fit? We'll say so.
Codebase + Team Audit
(48 hrs)Repo access under NDA. Our CTO and senior engineers review your architecture, compliance posture, tech debt, AND your team structure. We assess which roles AI should be handling and where headcount is burning runway.
Independent Codebase Audit
Senior-level review of what your team is actually shipping. Code quality, technical debt, security posture, deployment hygiene, HIPAA exposure.
Team Efficiency Review
Are the right roles in place? Where is headcount burning runway? Which roles should AI be handling? Honest assessment, named gaps.
Investor-Readiness Pre-Check
What a technical advisor will find on Series A diligence. Every gap, red flag, and fix. Pre-empt the conversation before it happens.
90-Day Action Plan + CTO Call
What to fix, who to hire, what to defer, what to keep. 60-min walkthrough with Shoukri. Report yours to keep.
We give this to qualified startups for free because founders who see the real state of their codebase and team almost always ask us to fix it.
Strategy Call with Shoukri
(60 min)Every finding walked through. Prioritized 90-day roadmap. Report is yours forever.
We Carry All the Risk. You Carry None.
Free Audit
No credit card. No deposit. 48 hours reviewing your codebase and team. Report yours to keep.
Compliance Guarantee
System fails a HIPAA or PCI-DSS audit within 12 months? We fix it. Our cost.
2-Week Money-Back
Not blown away in the first 2 weeks? Full refund, no questions.
$50K Finding Guarantee
We find $50K+ in avoidable costs, compliance gaps, or team inefficiencies. If we can't, we tell you you're in good shape.
Your Code, Always
Full IP ownership from day one. NDAs, MSAs. We never hold code hostage.
Zero Equity
We charge fees. You keep 100% of your cap table.
The only risk is not knowing what AI can replace. The audit eliminates that for free.
Who Leads Your Audit
Your CTO on Day One
Shoukri Kattan
CEO & Chief Technology Officer
Former Ericsson Director of Engineering. 100+ engineers managed. Systems built for Apple, AT&T, TELUS. Now he builds and operates Caesar Health, BitLab's own HIPAA-compliant AI platform.
- 20+ years in regulated industries (healthcare, telecom, fintech)
- 50+ products shipped, 0 compliance failures
- Personally leads every codebase + team audit and strategy call
- Reviews your code against the same standards he holds his own product to
"I don't consult from a slide deck. I open your codebase, find the problems, and fix them. If your team is doing well, I'll tell you that too."
Common Questions
Still Thinking It Over?
Here's what other healthtech founders asked before booking their free audit.
No catch. No credit card. Full written codebase and team efficiency report with 90-day roadmap, yours to keep. We do it because founders who see the real state of their code and team almost always ask us to fix it.
We sign an NDA before reviewing anything. If you are not ready for code access, we also offer a 60-minute Agentic Strategy Session, a deep dive on your architecture, team, and product without touching code. Most founders start there.
Most common scenario. We audit what they have shipped, flag what is salvageable vs needs rebuilding, and hand you a prioritized plan with costs. You decide what happens next.
About 1 in 5 audits confirm the team is doing excellent work. We tell you that. You get a clean third-party validation you can show your board, your investors, or future hires. The audit is still valuable.
Your call. Some founders run it as a routine third-party review and tell the team upfront. Others run it confidentially before a hiring or firing decision. We work either way.
The same things a Series A technical advisor will: PHI in logs, hardcoded credentials, missing tests on critical paths, unscoped PCI exposure, dependency rot, missing CI/CD, no DR plan. Most seed-stage codebases have 3 to 6. All fixable. Discovering them on the diligence call is not.
Genoplex: 0 to live in 60 days. Caesar Health: 7-agent AI platform in production in 90 days. MONMEDX: stalled offshore project to EMR live in major clinics in 270 days.
Built in from sprint one. 30+ healthcare products shipped. If any system we build fails a HIPAA audit within 12 months, we fix it at our cost.
No. Fees only. You keep 100% of equity and IP. Everything we build is yours, day one.
Senior team member, not a sales rep. We ask about your team, your stack, what is prompting the audit. If the audit fits, we schedule it. If not, we say so. 15 to 20 minutes, zero obligation.
Still have a question? The fastest way to get an answer is a 15-minute call. No pitch, no obligation.