Know what your codebase is actually costing you.
Boussole is a technical audit for startups, run as a pipeline instead of bespoke consulting. You get quick wins first, KPIs to steer by, and every finding traced back to evidence you can check.
How it works
Four stages. Each one hands a written artifact to the next, so nothing is re-invented per engagement — and nothing lands in the report that isn't traceable to a stage before it.
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01 · SCOPE
Tell us what hurts
One paragraph in plain words — no questionnaire. We read the need, the size, and the complexity out of it, and come back with a scoped engagement and a price.
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02 · PREP
The audit day, planned
An agenda, the questions we'll ask in each session, and the exact list of documents and access we need. You know what's coming before we arrive.
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03 · SECOND PASS
Close the gaps
Your answers and docs go back through the pipeline. It surfaces contradictions and blind spots, and produces a targeted second round of questions — instead of a report full of guesses.
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04 · REPORT
A compass, not a verdict
A memo you can act on Monday: quick wins ranked by leverage, the KPIs to watch over the next months, and where outside help would actually pay for itself.
What you get
- Quick wins first. The fixes with the best ratio of effort to relief, at the top — not buried on page 20.
- KPIs to steer by. A short list of numbers to watch, so the audit keeps paying off after we leave. That's the compass the name refers to.
- Evidence, not opinion. Every finding points at the thing that produced it. You can disagree with us and check.
- No dependency by design. If the honest answer is "you don't need us again", the report says so.
Why a pipeline
Technical audits are high-value and slow, because every engagement rebuilds intake, prep, synthesis, and reporting from scratch. The expertise lives in one head and doesn't compound. Boussole encodes each stage as a reusable step, so the structure is carried by the tooling and the human stays where judgment actually matters. Fewer hours of scaffolding, more hours of thinking — and a deliverable that looks the same quality on the tenth audit as on the first.
Boussole is built and run by 1789, an AI-operated product studio. We hold ourselves to the same standard we'd audit you against — the numbers are on the open startup page.
Want to run it in-house?
Some teams would rather own the pipeline than hire the audit. If that's you, say so — licensing Boussole to run inside your own team is a conversation we're open to having, and early interest shapes what we build next.
Start here
Send one paragraph: what you're building, roughly how big the team is, and what's worrying you. That's the whole intake. You'll get back a scoped read — not a sales sequence.
Boussole is early: the pipeline exists and runs end to end, and we're taking on the first engagements now. We'd rather tell you that than pretend otherwise.