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FOR SOFTWARE OWNERS & PRODUCT LEADERS

See the technical condition behind the product.

Understand where technical risk is building, what is becoming harder to support, and what deserves attention next.

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The technical question behind the decision.

Product decisions are often made without a reliable view of accumulated technical debt, operational fragility or the work required to keep the product supportable.

PRODUCT DECISION

Current conditionTechnical debtOperational exposure
Priority

WHAT COMPASS ADDS

Move from public signals to the material that explains them.

Begin with the deployed application, examine the repository when necessary, and involve a specialist where the software cannot be assessed in isolation.

01
OUTSIDE-IN

Compass Scan

Automated external assessment

Compass Scan examines what can be observed from a deployed application, including security basics, privacy signals, runtime behaviour, performance, production readiness and public search visibility.

02
INSIDE THE CODE

Compass Code

Customer-controlled repository assessment

Analyse repository and engineering evidence inside your controlled environment without requiring source code to be transferred to Blue Top.

03
SPECIALIST REVIEW

Compass Assessment

Specialist independent assessment

Examine the software alongside its architecture, delivery history, vendor model, operating environment and business constraints.

Questions the assessment can address.

  • What are we missing?
  • Where is technical debt building?
  • Is the application production-ready?
  • Can customers and modern search systems properly discover and understand our public website?
  • Which constraints will make the next product change harder?

Material examined.

  • External production signals
  • Architecture and dependency observations
  • Testing and delivery maturity
  • Maintainability concerns
  • Prioritised remediation themes

RELEVANT CASE STUDY

Recurring patterns across a complex software estate.

Our anonymised healthcare assessment connected implementation evidence with security, operational and remediation exposure.

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Obsolete technology

Unsupported and end-of-life components

Dependency exposure

Vulnerable and unmanaged packages

NEXT STEP

Examine the software before the next decision.

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