24–30
Change with confidence
The platform can take the change. Plan it with a rollback step and watch the two lowest factors during release.
Architecture, Data & Integration · 15 factors
Score how safely your SaaS platform can take the next feature, customer or integration. Ten minutes, evidence over optimism.
Before you score
Score the platform against one real upcoming change, such as 'onboard our largest customer' or 'replace the billing integration', not the platform in general.
Score evidence, not optimism. If you cannot point to the data, owner, metric or control, score it 0 or 1.
Every query, job and file is scoped to a tenant, and a missing scope fails closed.
What users may do is kept separate from which records they may see.
The schema still matches how the business works without workarounds.
Every integration, its owner and its failure impact is listed.
Retries, idempotency and timeouts protect against partner failures.
Critical paths are covered by tests that run on every change.
Deployments are repeatable, staged and can be reversed quickly.
Schema changes are reviewed, reversible and safe on live data.
Errors, slow requests and failed jobs are visible within minutes.
Load is measured and the platform has room for the next growth step.
Secrets, admin access and audit trails are controlled and reviewed.
Legacy data can be mapped, reconciled and verified before cutover.
Architecture, runbooks and integration contracts are current.
Someone is on call and past incidents led to real fixes.
Infrastructure and third-party costs are known per tenant or feature.
Turn the score into a decision
24–30
The platform can take the change. Plan it with a rollback step and watch the two lowest factors during release.
16–23
The change is possible, but weak foundations raise the cost of failure. Fix the lowest-scoring factors before the release.
0–15
The platform is carrying more risk than it shows. Review isolation, releases and integrations before taking on the change.
Your weakest factors
Your next three actions
Next step
The Platform & Integration Review ranks your platform risks and hands you a prioritised decision plan in two to three weeks.
Your score and weakest factors are added to the message for you.
Score every factor, then get a PDF of your platform scorecard built from your answers: your total and result, your weakest factors, all fifteen scores and the next steps. (Before every factor is scored, you get the blank scorecard.)