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You’ve hit the wall.

We’ll show you what’s on the other side.

More headcount won’t move it. More budget won’t move it. The wall is architectural and it has specific structural causes. Our 14-day Forensic Audit maps every crack, every load-bearing failure, and hands you the blueprint to break through.

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See what a Forensic Audit actually reveals

Download a redacted deliverable from a real engagement — the analysis, the findings, and the unblocking roadmap.

  • Root cause architecture analysis
  • Team topology bottleneck map
  • Prioritized 90-day remediation plan
  • Projected velocity & cost impact
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250+

Walls diagnosed and broken through.

14 days

From kickoff to action plan

18+

Years in business

Three stuctural failures we find in every stalled transformation

You’re not underperforming. You’re building on top of a fracture. Here’s where the breakdows usually are.

THE VELOCITY PARADOX

More headcount won’t move it

You’ve increased engineering headcount by 30%, but features are shipping slower. This isn’t a people problem, it’s a dependency problem buried in your architecture.

 THE MODERNIZATION TRAP

The modernization made it worse

Your new cloud architecture is somehow more rigid and expensive than the legacy system it was meant to replace. The “modernization” built a more expensive wall.

THE INVISIBLE FRICTION

$10M spent. Zero line of sight. 

The bridge between Board-level business goals and daily engineering output has collapsed into busy work mode with no end in sight.

WHAT’S ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WALL

Results from recent engagements

98%

of stalls traced to 2-3 root causes

100%

of clients saw measureable improvement within 90 days

30%

gains in cloud efficiencies

2-5x

increase in value delivery velocity

THE FORENSIC TRANSFORMATION AUDIT

We don’t guess where the wall is weakest. We X-ray it.

This isn’t a general checkup. It’s a high-stakes  structural assessment designed to find the specific fracture points and give you the engineering plan to break through.

  • Product & Architecture Review
    Separating the technical debt that’s actually killing you from the debt you can live with. Finding the load-bearing failures.
  • Team Topology Analysis
    Mapping where organizational structure and communication patterns are creating invisible friction that no amount of headcount can solve.
  • The Unblocking Roadmap
    A sequenced 90-day execution plan with owners, timelines, and projected impact for each fix. Your board gets a clear story. Your team gets a clear path.
14-Day Engagement Timeline
1
Days 1–3
Discovery & Scoping

Stakeholder interviews, codebase access, documentation review. We define the investigation perimeter.

2
Days 4–9
Structural Analysis

Architecture review, team topology mapping, delivery pipeline assessment, dependency tracing.

3
Days 10–12
Findings & Roadmap

Root cause synthesis. Remediation plan prioritized: Immediate / High / Medium. Projected ROI for each fix.

4
Day 14
Executive Readout

Live presentation to your leadership team. Full Q&A and next-steps alignment.

18 YEARS OF BREAKING THROUGH WALLS
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Health and Wellness Tech

Financial Services / FinTech

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Risk Intelligence

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Media Tech

Ten Mile Square is truly a trusted partner. They are technically deep, innovative, efficient, and do a great job of transferring knowledge to our teams.
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Chuck Hurst
VP Media & Content Delivery, $10B Global Media Company
Ten Mile Square jumpstarted our restart. We left behind years of technical debt and built the scalable platform required to execute on our vision.
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iJET International
Risk Intelligence Platform
Rick provided the leadership, technical expertise, and process knowledge we needed at a critical time. We became a respected leader in our market.
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Acceller Leadership
Digital Services
Serving as our fractional CTO, Frank understood our business and growth goals. He provided the foresight of what we needed to meet our technology vision.
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RightEye Leadership
HealthTech

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    WHO YOU'LL ACTUALLY TALK TO

    Our partners lead Forensic Transformation Audits personally. When you book a consultation, you’re talking to one of us, not a junior associate or a sales rep.

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    Frank Oelschlager

    Partner & Managing Director

    Frank has 30+ years of product technology and operational experience.

    He has built and sold software companies as an entrepreneur and has served as fractional CTO for mid-market companies across HealthTech, Media, SaaS, and FinTech.

    He specializes in successfully navigating clients through inflection points and digital transformation initiatives.

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    Rick Garvin

    Partner & Managing Director

    Rick focuses on product development acceleration and product management for growth-oriented technology companies.

    Rick has worked on internet-based application architectures for 35+ years and holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.

    He frequently works as fractional CTO, VP of Engineering, or VP of Product Development.

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    Hyun Ho Ro

    Partner & Managing Director

    Hyun Ho has more than 25 years of experience in software engineering and engineering management with experience working across the full product development lifecycle.

    At Ten Mile Square, Ho works with clients to develop modern cloud-based solutions on AWS and Azure, manage complex merger-related application and data integrations, as well as holding interim engineering management roles.

    The wall doesn’t care about your roadmap.

    But we know how to break it.

    Start with the sample report. If what you see resonates, talk to us about your specific wall.

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