Technical due diligence assesses the state of a target company's technology: code quality and maintainability, architecture and scalability, security posture, infrastructure cost, intellectual property ownership, team capability and key-person risk. It quantifies technical debt as a cost to remediate.
Price the debt, do not just flag it
Every codebase has debt. A report saying 'technical debt was observed' is not useful to an investment committee. What matters is what it will cost to fix, whether it must be fixed before the growth plan is achievable, and whether that changes the valuation.
So findings are costed in engineering months and mapped against the business plan. Some debt can be lived with indefinitely. Some blocks the next stage of growth entirely, and that distinction is the point of the exercise.
Process
How we deliver it
Process flow for Technology due diligence
01
Review the code
Quality, structure, test coverage, dependency health.
02
Assess architecture
Scalability against the business plan's projections.
03
Check security and compliance
Posture, exposure and DPDP obligations.
04
Evaluate the team
Capability, key-person risk and delivery track record.
05
Cost the remediation
In engineering months, mapped to the growth plan.
Deliverables
What you receive
A findings report rated by severity and business impact
Architecture assessment against projected scale
Security and compliance review
Team and key-person risk assessment
Costed remediation plan with a timeline
Engagement shape
Two to five weeks depending on codebase size, working to the transaction timetable.
Stack decisions follow the problem. This is where we usually start, not a fixed menu.
Frequently asked
Questions we get about this
How much access do we need to the target?
Read access to repositories, infrastructure documentation, and interviews with the technical leadership. Diligence conducted from a data room alone is considerably weaker and we will say so in the report rather than implying otherwise.
Can you do this before we go to market?
Yes, and it is often the better investment. Finding and fixing the issues before a buyer's diligence surfaces them protects both the valuation and the negotiating position.
Talk it through before you commit
A discovery call is a working session on your constraint, not a sales pitch.
