Product & Tech

Technical architecture review

Reads architecture documentation, diagrams, design decisions and any incident or performance material, then reviews the design against four lenses: scalability, resilience and availability, security by design, and accumulated technical debt.

  • Product & Tech
  • Traceable reasoning
  • Runs anywhere
Preview methodology

2–3 weeks ~25 minutes

For a typical multi-document review workflow

No coding required

Input
Documents, exports or uploads you already hold
Output
A structured, review-ready deliverable
Runs in
Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
Export
SKILL.md · MCP
Time saved
~2–3 weeks per run

— USE CASES

What people use Technical architecture review for

Repeatable client analysis

Run the same structured analysis for every client or business unit so quality no longer depends on who picked up the work.

Faster first drafts

Turn raw source material into a working draft in minutes and spend your time on judgement instead of assembly.

Comparable results over time

Produce the same shape of output each cycle so movement is measurable rather than re-argued.

What it works from

  • Documents, exports or uploads you already hold
  • Your own criteria, framework or house method

What you get back

  • A structured, review-ready deliverable
  • A traceable record of what informed each conclusion

— HOW IT BEHAVES

How Technical architecture review produces its result

The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.

Scored against your criteria

Each decision is assessed against criteria you control and weight, so the same standard applies to every decision in the decision set in scope.

Governance and authority documentation pulled into one schema

Every decision is captured in the same field structure, so records drawn from different documents and sources stay comparable.

Whole sets of governance and authority documentation at once

All of your governance and authority documentation is processed as one set, so patterns across documents surface instead of being read one file at a time.

Composed as work product

Findings on the decision set in scope are written up as a document that reads like professional output, with each claim tied back to a decision.

Why this is expensive by hand

Every product & tech team needs technical architecture review — and almost none of them do it the same way twice. In practice it shows up as repeatable client analysis: run the same structured analysis for every client or business unit so quality no longer depends on who picked up the work. The value sits in the rigour, not the typing — yet the rigour is exactly what gets traded away when there is only 2–3 weeks of capacity for it.

How this Skill produces it

Skillsize turns that work into a Skill: you supply the material, and what comes back is a structured, review-ready deliverable, with a traceable record of what informed each conclusion. The judgement is built in — how items are broken up, what standard they are held to, and where the run stops for a human review. In effect, 2–3 weeks of senior time compresses into ~25 minutes — and the output is comparable across clients, quarters and colleagues instead of shaped by whoever ran it.

Who it's for

  • Independent consultants codifying their own methodology
  • Strategy and transformation teams standardising delivery
  • Internal advisory functions under pressure to produce faster
  • Operators who need defensible output, not a one-off chat answer

Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere

Technical architecture review exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.

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