Most architecture audits arrive at the same conclusion as the auditor’s primary partnership. That is not always dishonesty; it is what happens when a team only knows one platform deeply.
What a real audit covers
- Codebase health — customisation depth, upgrade debt, test coverage.
- Infrastructure and performance under realistic peak load.
- Integration map — every system touching orders, inventory, customers and finance.
- Data model problems that will constrain future work.
- Team capability and where delivery actually slows down.
What you should receive
A prioritised roadmap: what to fix in the next quarter, what to plan for the next year, what to leave alone, and roughly what each costs. Anything less specific is hard to act on and harder to get budget approved for.
A useful audit sometimes concludes that your current platform is fine and the problem is process. A partner willing to say that is worth keeping.
