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Two senior consultants in discussion at a meeting table in a glass-walled office

Technology assessment

Complex technology.
Clear answers.

Complex technology.
Clear answers.

Software · AI · Cybersecurity · Hardware

Software · Hardware
AI · Cybersecurity

Tech DNA analyzes source code and works with tech teams to understand how technology is actually built, where its strengths lie, and where it can improve. You get clear findings and actionable takeaways.

Tech DNA analyzes source code and works with tech teams to understand how technology is actually built, where its strengths lie, and where it can improve. You get clear findings and actionable takeaways.

100% code coverage

Not just a sample

20+ year operators

We are or have been Founders & CTOs, no juniors

Findings in 8–21 days

Built for deal timelines

Built for deal timelines

Fixed fee

Know your costs up front scoped to what matters

What We Do

Diligence and advisory, end to end

Before you buy

THE FOUNDATION

Technical Due Diligence

AI Evaluation

Pen Testing

OSS Review

Hardware

Select the foundation or a deep dive to see what it covers

One foundation, focused deep dives

Every engagement starts with technical due diligence. Add deep dives where the company, the risks or the deal thesis call for it.

Technical Due Diligence

An independent review of a company’s technology before you buy or invest: how it’s built, how it will scale, and the team behind it. Finding tied to what it means for the deal.

Every review covers

Architecture

Code quality

Security

Scalability

Integrations

Tech debt

Team

Learn more

THE FOUNDATION

Technical Due Diligence

AI Evaluation

Pen Testing

OSS Review

Hardware

Select the foundation or a deep dive to see what it covers

One foundation, focused deep dives

Every engagement starts with technical due diligence. Add deep dives where the company, the risks or the deal thesis call for it.

Technical Due Diligence

An independent review of a company’s technology before you buy or invest: how it’s built, how it will scale, and the team behind it. Finding tied to what it means for the deal.

Every review covers

Architecture

Code quality

Security

Scalability

Integrations

Tech debt

Team

Learn more

THE FOUNDATION

Technical Due Diligence

AI Evaluation

Pen Testing

OSS Review

Hardware

Select the foundation or a deep dive to see what it covers

One foundation, focused deep dives

Every engagement starts with technical due diligence. Add deep dives where the company, the risks or the deal thesis call for it.

Technical Due Diligence

An independent review of a company’s technology before you buy or invest: how it’s built, how it will scale, and the team behind it. Finding tied to what it means for the deal.

Every review covers

Architecture

Code quality

Security

Scalability

Integrations

Tech debt

Team

Learn more

While you own

Upside

Value Creation

Upside after close, sized and sequenced

Leadership

CTO Candidate Assessment

Vet tech leaders before they take the keys

Data

Dataset Transformation

Keep the data’s value, leave the liability

When you sell

Sell-side

Exit Preparedness

Find what buyers will find, first

Approach

The method

Senior only

No juniors. No mid-levels. Three to six senior consultants per project, depending on scope.

Code as ground truth

The code guides our questions and checks the answers.

Early escalation

We escalate the moment we smell smoke.

Both directions

Everything we find, good and bad, ranked by what it does to value.

8–21 days

A full assessment on deal timelines, starting within 24 hours.

tech-dna · live engagement

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tdna review --company ‹redacted›

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day 01 · code received: reading 100%, every repo

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day 04 · architecture overview with the company’s engineers

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day 06 · material finding: escalated to client same day

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day 11 · interim report-out: priorities adjusted with you

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day 21 · final report-out: findings ranked by deal thesis impact

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From code to deal decision

What it means for the deal.

Illustrative example · Scalability review

The finding

Growth depends on a manual step.

Each new customer needs a separate deployment and hands-on engineering work.

The implication

The growth plan needs more than sales.

Without automation, onboarding demand could absorb the engineers needed to build the product.

The deal decision

Price the work. Name the owner.

Before signing, validate the automation effort and reflect it in the investment plan. Give the post-close work a budget, an owner and a milestone.

The question that matters

Is their AI differentiated and defensible?

We read the code, not the pitch deck. Our team separates genuine capability from marketing claims so you can make an informed decision.

Our Experience

Where we have worked

500+

deals worldwide

$200B+

in deal value evaluated

50+

countries and counting

10B+

lines of code analyzed

Industries we work in

And that is just the industries. The stacks run from mainframe to mobile to firmware, and a single engagement can mean ten or more languages, including the obscure ones nobody else will touch.

Not on this list? We have probably done it. Let’s talk.

What clients say

“They bridge that gap between what engineers say and executives need to hear.”

M&A Director · Fortune 50 acquirer

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