Engagement
How long does it take to get an answer from Arrio?
The short answer
A first reading of a defined scope comes back in days rather than months. Engagements start with a proof of concept against a real part of your estate, so the first thing you see is your own organisation rather than a demonstration. Whole-estate coverage takes longer and is usually approached in stages.
Days, not months, for the first reading
The reason a traditional software audit takes months is that it is people reading code by hand. Arrio reads the codebases themselves, so the constraint is scope and access rather than consultant availability. Once access is in place, a defined scope comes back in days.
That changes what the answer is for. A finding that arrives six months later informs the next budget round. A finding that arrives this week informs the decision you are actually making.
It starts with a proof of concept
Every engagement begins with a proof of concept against a real part of your estate, not a sample repository and not a scripted demonstration. You see your own organisation described back to you, which is the only version of this that tells you anything.
That also means the first question is not "do you believe the method" but "does this match what you already suspect". In our experience it usually does, and the value is in the parts that do not.
Whole-estate coverage is staged
Large organisations do not usually start everywhere at once. A common shape is one business unit or one portfolio company first, then widening as the questions get sharper. Each stage produces something usable rather than deferring value to the end.
What actually sets the timeline
Almost always the access approval, not the analysis. Getting read-only repository access signed off by the right people is the slow step in most enterprises, which is worth starting early. The reading itself is fast.
The slow part is the paperwork. Start there.