CyberCraft

Product engineering
for B2B SaaS teams

We help B2B SaaS teams review critical technical decisions, plan safer system changes, and execute the engineering work required to move forward.

60–90 min session · Led by Eugene Safronov, CEO of CyberCraft · Focused on real risks

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Services

What we actually help clients do

We work with B2B SaaS companies that need help with technical decisions and system changes that carry real product and business risk.

Technical decision reviews

Before a rewrite, migration, architecture change, or major implementation path is locked in.

Architecture & technical audits

When the system is becoming harder to change, slower to release, or riskier to scale.

Migration & restructuring planning

When the current setup is no longer the right fit for where the product is going.

Hands-on engineering execution

When the work needs to move beyond diagnosis into refactoring, restructuring, migration, or system changes alongside the internal team.

This is not generic development support and not staff augmentation. We are usually brought in when the next technical move matters enough that getting it wrong would be expensive.

The situation

Teams usually come to us when…

01

More engineering effort is going into working around the system than improving it

02

You are facing a rewrite, migration, or architecture change, and the right path is not obvious

03

Releases are getting riskier, slower, and harder to trust

04

The product is entering a stage that the current foundation was not built for

05

A technical recommendation is on the table, but something about the direction feels off

Core Positioning

We help teams make the right technical move before they commit to the wrong one.

Most serious product engineering problems are not caused by lack of effort.

They usually come from one of three things:

  • not enough distance from the system
  • poor sequencing
  • not enough experience navigating similar changes under production pressure

We help teams identify what is actually driving the risk, decide what needs to change first, and then carry out the engineering work required to move forward with less risk and more confidence.

Unlike a development agency brought in for execution capacity, we are brought in when the decision itself matters  and the team needs judgment, clarity, and direct technical help.

Who we work with

We work best with B2B SaaS companies that already have:

A live product in production

Real users, active revenue, and a codebase that must keep moving while you change it.

An internal engineering team

You have engineers. What you need is outside judgment on what to change and where the real risk is.

Early technical decisions starting to limit delivery, reliability, or scale

Early shortcuts are starting to show up as slower delivery or fragile releases.

A decision ahead that materially affects delivery, reliability, scale, or product direction

A rewrite, migration, or architecture shift is on the table — and getting it right matters.

Most often Seed, Series A, or Series B — past early validation, with a product growing in complexity and business demand.

Not the best fit for: generic staff augmentation, low-context execution support, or early MVP work that belongs in a different type of engagement.

Where we get involved

Three common ways
clients start with us

01Decide

You need a second opinion before committing to a major technical decision

A rewrite, migration, architecture shift, or vendor-led recommendation is on the table. The next move could shape the product for years, and the cost of the wrong call — in engineering time, product direction, and delivery risk — is high.

StartTechnical Decision Review
GoalPressure-test the direction before major time and budget are committed
02Stabilise

Your product is becoming harder to change safely

Releases are slower than they should be, changes create side effects, and the team is spending too much capacity managing instability instead of shipping. The system is becoming the constraint.

StartArchitecture Review
GoalIdentify what is making the system brittle and what needs to change first
03Scale

Your system is no longer built for what the business now needs from it

Larger customers, heavier usage, or higher reliability expectations are exposing limits the product could previously absorb. The risk is no longer hypothetical — the current setup is starting to create operational strain.

StartScale Readiness Review
GoalPrepare the product for the next stage without waiting for the problem to become more expensive

Process

How an engagementtypically works

Every engagement starts differently, but the logic is usually the same: first understand the real problem, then define the safest path, then do the work.

Diagnose01

Find the real source of risk

We look past what is most visible to understand what is actually slowing delivery, increasing fragility, or limiting the product's ability to evolve.

system-audit.md4 issues found
OrderService.tsN+1 ×4
UserContext.tsxtight coupling
release-log.json12 side effects
db/schema.tsshared mutable
PaymentService.tsno error boundary
api/gateway.tsno rate limit
Plan02

Decide what needs to change first

We clarify what is urgent, what can wait, and what sequence gives the team the highest-leverage, lowest-risk path forward.

action-plan.md — prioritised
P0Fix N+1 query in /orders3 days
P0Remove shared mutable state4 days
P1Add Redis caching layer5 days
P1Add error boundaries2 days
P2Refactor auth middleware1 week
Fix03

Execute the work

We do the engineering work required to reduce risk, improve stability, and prepare the product for what comes next, not just advise on it. That may include refactoring, restructuring, migration work, infrastructure changes, or close collaboration with the internal team on the parts of the system that carry the most risk.

orders.service.ts+12/-34
-const orders = await db.find()
-.populate('items')
-.populate('user')
+const orders = await db
+.findWithJoin(['items','user'])
return orders

What clients say

Real outcomesfrom engineering decisions made well

From review to confident decision

3 months

"

We were about to commit a year of engineering effort to a full rewrite. CyberCraft helped us see that the real constraint was something else entirely. We made a materially safer call — and the team moved faster for it."

James Whitmore

CTO, Series A SaaS

Release confidence improvement

↑ 60%

"

Our releases had become a source of anxiety across the whole team. CyberCraft identified where the fragility was coming from, fixed the parts that mattered most, and the difference was felt within the first sprint."

Sarah Okafor

VP Engineering, B2B Platform

Through a major platform migration

0 outages

"

We were scaling into enterprise and the cracks were starting to show. The review gave us a clear picture of what needed to change before it became a real problem — and the execution was exactly what we needed."

Daniel Reyes

CEO, Series B SaaS

The team

Why teams bring us in

The teams that bring us in already have engineers. The problem is rarely effort.

It is perspective, prioritisation, and experience navigating change under production pressure.

The people behind this work have operated inside product teams and technical audits where the issues were not theoretical: architecture debt was already slowing feature development, performance bottlenecks were driving avoidable cost, security gaps were exposing production systems, and scaling pressure was beginning to reach customers.

High-cost API usage patterns

Fragile release cycles

Missing architectural separation

Database exposure risks

Absent throttling

Hidden data-model risks

We are brought in when the team needs sharper judgment, clearer sequencing, and direct help changing the parts of the system that carry the most risk.

4.9

Clutch · 20 reviews

Technical expertiseHigh-quality deliveryResponsivenessSeamless collaboration

Proof

Examples of the work

API cost & performance
Next Stop Comedy

Reducing avoidable API cost and performance risk

  • A search flow generating 86,692 Places API requests in 30 days
  • Early autocomplete triggers, premature Place Details calls, and no debouncing or caching
  • Optimization path identified: input thresholds, deferred detail requests, field reduction, and caching
  • Safe estimated reduction of ~40% in request volume without changing the core user experience

What the client got: a clear path to materially reduce API usage, lower infrastructure cost, and improve performance without architectural disruption.

release-v2.4.1.log3 side effects
auth.serviceOK
user.serviceOK
payment.module3 side effects
cart.servicebroken
pricing.apidegraded
notificationsbroken
Code quality & architecture
Link Rocket

Clarifying what had to be fixed before more features were added

  • Low code quality, missing three-tier separation, duplicate frontend requests, and unnecessary rerendering
  • Lack of tests and no meaningful logging were already increasing bugs and slowing new feature work
  • Instead of treating everything as equally urgent, findings were turned into a phased remediation plan
  • The team could address what had to change before more complexity was layered on top

What the client got: a clearer, sequenced path for what needed to be fixed first versus what could safely wait.

rewrite-options.mdrisk assessment
Path AFull rewriteHIGH risk
Risk
Timeline: 8 mo
Path BIncremental← recommended
Risk
Timeline: 3 mo
Security & data integrity
TCGFish

Identifying security and data risks before product expansion made them harder to unwind

  • Database open to the world, request throttling missing, and machine-readable endpoints exposing excessive data
  • Records in the Python upload process had no stable unique identifiers — serious issues once user-linked features depended on those references
  • Security, performance, and data-integrity risks identified and prioritized before product expansion
  • A sequenced remediation path delivered so the team could act without waiting for the problems to compound

What the client got: a prioritized path to address security, performance, and data-integrity risks before product expansion made them harder to unwind.

system-health.json4 thresholds exceeded
p99 latency2,340ms>500ms!
Error rate4.2%>1% SLA!
DB conns94/100>80 warn!
Queue depth12.4k>5k!

FAQ

Frequently asked

The cost of the wrong technical move compounds. So does the value of the right one.

If you are facing a decision that could shape the product for years, the first step is getting clear on the real constraint and the safest path forward — before major engineering time and budget are committed.

A focused working session about the decision you are facing, what is actually driving the risk, and what a safer path forward looks like before major engineering investment is locked in