A targeted review of your application and infrastructure across six critical pillars — with a clear, actionable deck that highlights what to fix first. 100% free.
Get Your Free AssessmentThree things keep founders up at night — and they're all infrastructure problems in disguise.
Early startups get blocked chasing Enterprise deals because they treated compliance as a "later" problem. Your procurement team will ask for SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR — and your infrastructure needs to be ready.
A "daily snapshot" is not a backup strategy. If a critical failure hits and your backups won't restore, that's a blow most companies never recover from.
One leaked API key or an infinite loop can burn through months of runway overnight. Cloud providers won't stop it — they'll bill you for every cycle.
The common thread? You have limited engineering resources, and your team is focused on shipping features — as they should be. Infrastructure takes second place because it's not something your customers see day to day.
At Realist.ai, we help founders fix all three — compliant, disaster-proof, cost-optimized infrastructure in 60 days or less — without pulling your engineers off feature development.
You sit down live with our team of experts and see exactly what an enterprise procurement team (or a technical audit) would flag.
We look at your entire infrastructure — from application architecture to cloud costs — and score your production readiness across all six pillars. Every blind spot, every risk, every opportunity.
These are deep-dive, 1-on-1 sessions with senior cloud architects — not automated reports — so we strictly cap this at 10 founders per month.
And if you're wondering why you should trust our feedback? These are the exact same architects that Fortune 500 companies hire to build their infrastructure.
Grab one of this month's spots, and let's uncover your blind spots before your next big deal does.
We're confident that once you see the depth of our analysis, you'll want to keep working with us. This is our way of proving value — no invoice required.
You walk away with four things — a score, prioritized fixes, a shareable deck, and total clarity on where you stand.
An overall score (out of 10) that quantifies your production readiness at a glance — alongside a clear breakdown of your strongest and riskiest areas.
For each pillar, a high-level suggestion and the current risk — so you know exactly what to fix first and why it matters.
A professional deck you can share with stakeholders, investors, and your engineering team — no filler, just signal.
No guesswork. You'll know exactly where your infrastructure stands today — what's solid, what's at risk, and what to fix first.
Every assessment covers these six areas — each maps to a common blind spot. Compliance? That's IAM & Security and Organization Architecture. Disaster recovery? That's Backup & DR. Cost blowouts? That's Cost Controls — plus Application Architecture and DevOps & Delivery for the full picture.
Compute tier, service decomposition, caching strategy, and scalability — ensuring your architecture can handle growth without rewrites.
RPO/RTO targets, cross-region replication, automated failovers — testing whether your data survives the worst case.
Least-privilege access, network topology, encryption at rest and in transit, audit trails — finding gaps before they find you.
Budgeting, cost allocation, waste detection, and right-sizing — making sure you're not burning money on idle resources.
Multi-project structure, account governance, team isolation — designed to scale as you grow from one engineer to fifty.
CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategy, environment consistency, and release velocity — identifying bottlenecks that slow your team.
Your 30-minute live session with a senior cloud architect. Pick a date and time below.
You sit down live with our team of senior cloud architects. We look at your actual setup — your application architecture, your cloud costs, your backup strategy — and tell you exactly what an enterprise procurement team would flag. No automated report. No fluff. Just honest feedback from the same architects that Fortune 500 companies hire. And it's 100% free.
No. This is a live, 1-on-1 session with a senior cloud architect. We review your actual infrastructure and give you tailored feedback — not a generic PDF generated by a form. These are the same architects that Fortune 500 companies pay agencies $50k+ for.
The Assessment is a single live session where we evaluate your current state and deliver a scored deck with recommendations. It's designed to show you where you stand — fast and free. The Roadmap is a deeper engagement: three weeks of collaborative sessions resulting in a full architecture design and implementation plan ($5,000). The Assessment is the starting point; the Roadmap is what you do when you're ready to build.
We cap this at 10 founders per month. Each session is a 1-on-1 deep dive with a senior architect. We want to make sure everyone who walks through this gets our full attention — not a rushed, cookie-cutter review.
Founders and engineering leaders who want an honest, third-party look at their infrastructure. Whether you're preparing for a SOC 2 audit, an enterprise sale, or you just want to know what's going to break before it breaks — if you have doubts about where your infrastructure stands, this is for you.
Pick a date and time on the calendar above. That's it. We'll spend 30 minutes learning about your application and infrastructure to confirm the Assessment is the right fit.
Zero. The Assessment is 100% free. No cost, no commitment. We'll deliver the deck and be straight with you about where you stand — and if there's a fit, we'll talk about the Roadmap. Our hope is that you'll see the value and want to keep working with us.
That's up to you. If your infrastructure looks solid, you'll know it. If there are gaps, you'll have a prioritized list of what to fix. And if you want us to help build it, the next step is the Production Roadmap — a full architecture design and implementation plan built over three weeks. No pressure either way.