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The most expensive technical decision a non-technical owner makes is who to trust. Evidence-based questions beat gut feel, and they are cheap.

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Ways to check a claim before you pay for it

Built from your actual system, so the questions are about your problem rather than about trivia.

Developer assessment

Questions grounded in your real codebase and a way to read the answers, including which answers should worry you.

Seniority verification

Whether the experience described matches the answers given. Titles are cheap; reasoning is not.

Proposal review

What the proposal commits to, what it quietly excludes, and which line item is where the risk actually sits.

Estimate review

Whether the numbers are consistent with the work described, and which assumption would double them.

Interview plan

A structured technical interview you can run yourself, with what a good answer sounds like written next to each question.

Vendor claim verification

How to check the specific technical claims a vendor is making, rather than taking the deck at face value.

How an assessment runs

  1. Your system supplies the questions

    Generic interview questions test whether someone has read the same blog posts as you. Questions from your codebase test whether they can work on it.

  2. Answers are graded against something

    Each question comes with what a strong answer contains and what a plausible-sounding weak one looks like.

  3. Claims are separated from evidence

    What the person or vendor asserted, and what would demonstrate it. Those are different columns.

  4. A person can read it with you

    For a decision this expensive, expert review of the conversation is usually worth the credits.

When to check before signing

Not needed if

You have worked with them for years

The engagement is small and easy to end

You are technical enough to judge it yourself

Check first if

This is your first technical hire

The proposal is large, vague, or both

You cannot tell whether the estimate is sane

They will have production access

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