For business owners & non-technical decision-makers

Your software is a seven-figure asset. Know its condition.

Most owners run their most valuable asset with no appraisal and no health check. Watchdog gives you its condition in plain language, what it would cost to rebuild, and the handful of risks worth raising with your team — so you protect the asset instead of discovering its state in a crisis. No jargon, no dashboard to learn.

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authby ruben-rasmussen Exemplary

CAI98 / 100

62→98↑ +36

Code health 98

Architecture 99

Maturity 99

Readiness 96

Security 100

Domain 100

Rebuild cost~€380,000

Bus factor1 of 3 devs

Lines of code35,954

Rebuild cost and key-person risk — the two figures an owner most needs — on the face of the card.

The asymmetry you're up against

You'd appraise a building you own. Not the software that runs the business.

You insure the office and audit the books, yet the software — often the largest thing on the balance sheet — runs with no condition report and no inspection schedule. The people who build it know its state; you take their word. An independent measurement closes that gap.

Today: you find out in a crisis

The state of the asset surfaces when the lead developer leaves, a breach lands, or a buyer's diligence finds what you couldn't — always at the worst possible moment.

Now: a condition report, on a schedule

An independent 0–100 condition, what it would cost to rebuild, and the risks worth raising — read the same way every time, before they become a crisis.

What you get

The condition, the value, and the two or three things worth watching.

The number in plain words, the money behind the asset, and each risk translated into something you can act on — never a technical finding you have to decode.

What it's worth

The replacement cost of the codebase — what it would take to rebuild from scratch — so you can size the asset you're protecting and weigh decisions against it.

Where the risk hides

Key-person risk (one person holds the knowledge), security gaps, and rot that accrues even when nobody touches the code — surfaced in plain terms, before they bite.

What to do about it

Each risk translated into an ask your team can act on — "share ownership of this module", "add a security gate" — not a finding you have to interpret.

How it works — for you

Point us at the repository. Read the plain summary. Hand the detail to your team.

1 · Point

Point Watchdog at your repository — nothing to install, no developer time needed to get the first check.

2 · Read

You get the condition in plain language: how good it is, whether to worry, and what's worth raising. The first full check is free.

3 · Delegate

Share the full report with your team — the same number, with the technical detail they need to act. You decide; they execute.

Independent — and you don't have to trust us

The one opinion on your software that nobody you pay has a stake in.

Measured by an open standard

Watchdog builds nobody's software and earns no success fee — and the measurement runs on the CAI, an open, reproducible standard (the algorithm and scorer are public). Your team — or a buyer's, or an auditor's — can re-run it and get the same number. The condition report is one you can act on precisely because nobody you pay can tilt it. The CAI standard → cai.canine.dev · Reproduce it →

Don't run a seven-figure asset blind. Get its condition.

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