A 25-question diagnostic for CTOs and VPs of Engineering. Get a weighted risk score across five dimensions with a board-ready report your leadership team can act on today.
CTOs and VPs of Engineering feel the weight of legacy systems every day. But without a structured, scored diagnostic, it is nearly impossible to communicate the real urgency to boards, justify modernisation investment, or decide what to fix first.
Gut feel is not a strategy. Legac-o-Meter gives your organisation a rigorous, objective score in under 10 minutes, with a report your CFO and board can read without a technical translator.
Get your risk score now, it's freeThese are the moments when organisations wish they had known their risk score six months earlier.
A single server with no failover. A maintenance window that turns into four hours of downtime. The enterprise client that never renews.
Hardcoded credentials, dependencies three years behind, no MFA. A CVE takes 48 hours to become a weapon. Your unpatched packages are already there.
A monolith nobody fully understands, manual deployments only one developer can run, no tests to catch regressions. Velocity collapses while competitors ship.
SOC 2 is not just a checkbox, it is a sales requirement. An unaudited attack surface and missing compliance controls can kill a seven-figure contract overnight.
No documentation. No runbooks. No post-incident reviews. Good engineers leave systems they cannot be proud of and take institutional knowledge with them.
Untested backups provide false confidence. When ransomware hits or a drive fails, organisations find out their backup files are corrupted or schema-incompatible.
Create a free account. Add your organisation and application once. Every future scan links to it automatically, no re-entering details.
One question at a time, each auto-advancing to the next. Context hints explain why each question matters and what the underlying risk really is.
A 0 to 100 risk score, five category breakdowns, a Grade A to F, your highest-severity findings, and a prioritised remediation plan, instantly.
Download the PDF, share a read-only link with your board, mark findings as resolved, and track your risk score over time as you modernise.
Five diagnostic categories. 25 targeted questions. Each calibrated to the risk indicators that experienced technology consultants use to scope modernisation engagements.
Hosting environment, provisioning maturity, OS patch status, high-availability architecture, and production observability.
Language and framework currency, architectural patterns, upgrade cadence, test coverage, and deployment automation.
External audit history, dependency management, secrets handling, regulatory compliance posture, and identity controls.
Database age and support status, backup and restore practices, data governance, disaster recovery, and schema change management.
Code review maturity, runbook documentation, post-incident processes, technical debt governance, and onboarding quality.
Most tools give you a score and walk away. Legac-o-Meter gives you a workspace to track, manage, and prove progress over time.
Register multiple organisations and applications. Run separate assessments for each product, team, or acquired company and keep every scan linked and searchable.
Re-run the assessment quarterly. The dashboard plots your score over time so you can prove to your board that modernisation investment is working with hard data.
Mark each finding as Open, In Progress, Resolved, or Risk Accepted. Add internal notes. Track remediation progress without leaving the platform.
Generate a secure, read-only link to any assessment. Send it to your board, investors, or auditors. No account needed to view and you can revoke it anytime.
A polished 6-page PDF with your risk score, category breakdown, priority findings, and grade-specific recommendations. Ready to drop into a board deck.
Every assessment gets a live, interactive report page with a radar chart, trend line, and full question-by-answer breakdown. No PDF reader needed.
Attach private context notes to any scan. Document decisions, assumptions, and follow-up actions that only your team can see.
Export your full assessment history as a spreadsheet. Useful for audit trails, board reporting packages, and integration into existing risk management workflows.
Not a generic printout. A structured document your board, CFO, and investors can understand and act on without needing a technical translator.
Company name, date, a large risk score circle with grade, and a 5-category bar chart. Communicates your risk posture at a single glance.
One paragraph of plain-English assessment written for a non-technical board. Plus a radar chart and visualised category bars for quick comparison.
Every high-risk answer mapped to a specific plain-English finding, ordered by severity. Your actual risks precisely described, not generic boilerplate.
Grade-appropriate, prioritised recommendations your engineering team can act on immediately. Specific to your score, not generic advice.
A complete record of all 25 answers grouped by category. For accountability, auditing, and benchmarking against future assessments.
Grade-specific action statement and a clear path to Bithost's Legacy Modernisation team for organisations ready to move from diagnosis to remediation.
Use the risk score and PDF to quantify technology risk for non-technical stakeholders. Turn a vague concern into a specific, defensible number backed by structured evidence.
A Grade D or F report is a compelling artefact when requesting budget for infrastructure or architectural transformation. Evidence beats estimates every time.
Run the assessment on a target company's technology stack before signing. Understand the hidden modernisation cost buried in the deal before it is too late to renegotiate.
Run the diagnostic each quarter and compare scores over time. Track whether modernisation investment is actually moving the needle on risk reduction with hard data.
New to a CTO or VP Engineering role? Use the diagnostic to rapidly assess the organisation's technology posture and build your initial roadmap with evidence rather than impressions.
The security and data categories surface the gaps most likely to cause compliance failures or data breaches. Find them yourself before an auditor or attacker does.
The questions, findings, and recommendations are calibrated to the risk patterns most common in your industry.
Best-in-class engineering practices. Cloud-native, fully tested, continuously deployed. Risk is minimal and managed proactively.
Mostly modern practices with a few manageable gaps. Technical debt exists but is not causing significant disruption yet.
Meaningful technical debt accumulating. Development velocity is visibly slowing. Incidents are increasingly likely without structured intervention.
Significant legacy exposure across multiple dimensions. A major incident (outage, breach, or compliance violation) is likely within 1 to 2 years without a structured programme.
Critical risk across core systems. EOL software, unprotected data, or no external security review. The business is operating on borrowed time.
No contracts, no sales calls required to get started. Get a full assessment today at no cost.
For individuals and small teams running occasional assessments.
For engineering teams and consultancies running frequent assessments across multiple clients or products.
For private equity firms running portfolio-wide assessments and consulting firms embedding this into client engagements.
Legac-o-Meter is not an arbitrary quiz. The scoring model is built on the risk indicators that technology consultants use to scope modernisation engagements and estimate remediation cost.
Each of the 25 questions maps to a specific risk factor with a weighted score. Answers are calibrated against what Bithost's engineers have consistently found to drive outages, breaches, and velocity loss across hundreds of organisations.
The five category scores are normalised to 100 and combined into a single risk score. Higher is riskier. A score above 60 indicates that a structured remediation programme should start within the next two quarters.
Your competitors are modernising. Find out exactly where you stand and what to do about it before they pull further ahead.