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Section 1 — You and your team

Your name

Your role

Company

LinkedIn or company site

How many engineers do you have, how are they organized, and roughly how old is the main codebase?

Section 2 — Current AI tooling state

Which AI coding tools are in use today (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, other), and what share of the team uses them as their default way of working — not as smarter autocomplete?

What have you already built around the tools? CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / REVIEW.md files, custom review bots, CI gates, rules directories — whatever exists, however rough.

Section 3 — What's actually happening

What happened in the last 30 days that made you fill this out?

Where does AI-generated code hurt most right now — the review queue, architecture drift, nobody owning what the agents shipped, two different engineering cultures in one repo, something else?

Describe it in your own words; specifics beat categories.

What have you already tried that didn't stick, and what's your read on why?

Section 4 — Prior investment and decision-makers

Roughly what are you spending on AI tooling today (seats plus token spend), and can you connect that spend to any outcome you'd defend in a board meeting?

Who, besides you, would weigh in on an engagement like this — your CTO, your staff engineers, finance? Who could veto it?

Have you brought in outside help on an engineering problem before? How did it go?

Section 5 — Outcomes and timeline

It's 90 days from now and this worked. What's true about your team that isn't true today?

What number or artifact would you point at to prove it worked?

What's driving the timeline — planning cycle, board pressure, a hire you can't make, an incident?

Section 6 — Budget

Engagements that come out of this diagnostic typically run $20,000–$35,000. If the diagnostic surfaces a plan you believe in, is that a budget you can commit to without a multi-month approval process?

Yes No

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I review every application personally and respond within 48 hours. If you don't hear from me by then, something broke — email me directly: prasun@prasunsrivastava.com.

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