Application health check Evidence, not opinions. A letter grade for any application.
A disciplined, read-only assessment of any codebase, graded across twelve verticals and handed back as a report card you can act on or take to a board.
- Read-only, nothing in your code changes
- Twelve verticals graded
- Security, data, and compliance weighted double
- In business since 2012
One report card for the whole application.
We map the app before we judge it, then grade every layer that matters, from architecture and security to data, resilience, and compliance. You get one clear picture and a plan, not a tool dump.
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A full application profile
Before any grade, we map the stack, the entry points, the data, and the risk surfaces from the code itself, so every judgment rests on what is actually there.
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A graded report card
Twelve verticals, each with a clear letter grade and the single risk that matters most. Architecture, security, data, performance, resilience, compliance, and more.
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Findings that carry evidence
Every finding points to a line of code, a command with its output, or a config value. Anything we cannot prove is dropped, not softened.
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A costed fix list
Every issue is sized and prioritized, so you know what to fix first, what it takes, and which work protects revenue or closes real risk.
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A grade you can trust
One exploitable hole caps the whole grade, no matter how strong the rest. A team cannot average past the one thing that would get them breached.
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Read-only, start to finish
We assess, we do not touch. Diagnosis and repair are separate engagements, which keeps the evidence clean and the grade honest.
Nothing graded on vibes, nothing skipped in silence.
Every vertical is assessed, or explicitly marked not applicable with a reason. These are the twelve.
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Architecture
Boundaries, layering, and whether dependencies point one way.
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Code quality
Readable, cohesive code with the linter actually enforced.
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Security
Authentication, authorization, injection, and secrets. Weighted double.
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Data and migrations
Reversible schema changes, real constraints, and a tested restore.
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Performance
Indexed hot paths, bounded queries, and no N+1 surprises.
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Resilience
Timeouts, retries, idempotency, and graceful failure.
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Observability
Honest health checks, real alerting, and traceable logs.
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Supply chain
Locked dependencies, scanned for known vulnerabilities.
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Testing and CI
Core flows covered and the gates that actually block a merge.
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Frontend and UX
Accessible, resilient interfaces with every state designed.
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Docs and runbooks
A README that works and runbooks for the bad day.
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Compliance and privacy
PII mapped, retention enforced, obligations met. Weighted double.
Grade it, fix what matters, keep it healthy.
A clear path from a first read to a system that stays healthy, with no surprises and nothing you did not ask for.
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Report card
A fixed-scope diagnostic. The full profile, the twelve-vertical grade, and a costed fix list. Nothing in your code changes.
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Remediation sprint
We fix the items you choose, in the order you choose, built to standard and closed with a production ship gate.
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Managed standard
Quarterly re-grades trended over time, a gate on every release, and drift caught before it costs you.
Who it is for
Every engagement is scoped to the app in front of us.
- Leaders who need a grade they can act on or take to a board
- Buyers who need evidence, not opinions, before they trust an application
- Teams that want a costed fix list before they commit to remediation
- Owners who want the code graded without anyone changing it
The same bar we hold our own products to.
We run this assessment against our own security products at a higher bar than we hold anyone else to, so the method is proven where the stakes are highest, not just described on a slide.
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Evidence over opinion
Line numbers and command output, not adjectives. What we cannot prove does not ship in the report.
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Diagnosis, then treatment
The grade comes first and comes clean. Fixing what it finds is a separate, scoped engagement you choose to take.
Application health check questions
Short answers first. Ask Zeus or the team for the rest.
What is the application health check?
A disciplined, read-only assessment of any codebase, graded across twelve verticals. You get a report card with a letter grade per vertical, findings that carry evidence, and a costed fix list.
Does Z7 change our code during the assessment?
No. We assess, we do not touch. Diagnosis and repair are separate engagements, which keeps the evidence clean and the grade honest.
Can a strong average hide a critical flaw?
No. Security, data, and compliance count double, and a single unresolved critical issue caps the whole score, no matter how strong everything else is. That is the part buyers trust.
What counts as evidence?
A line of code, a command with its output, or a config value. Anything we cannot prove is dropped, not softened.
What happens after the report card?
You choose. A remediation sprint fixes the items you pick, and because software drifts, we can re-grade on a cadence and catch decay before it compounds.
Point it at your application.
Book a call and we will walk you through the assessment and exactly what it covers.