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

Nobody wants to be left in the dark.

Nobody wants to be left in the dark.

Senior-only technical due diligence. We read 100% of the code on every engagement, then tell you what it means for the deal in plain language.

Senior-only experts

20+ years of experience, every engagement

100% code review

Not a sample. All of it.

Not a sample. All of it.

Findings in 8–21 days

Built for deal timelines

Built for deal timelines

Fixed fee

Under way within 24 hours of engagement

What We Do

Diligence and advisory, end to end

One senior team across the deal lifecycle, from a pre-LOI read to post-close planning.

The foundation

Technical Due Diligence

Our foundational engagement. Architecture, code quality, security, scalability, integrations, tech debt, and team. 100% of the code reviewed, every finding prioritized by what it means for value, so nothing surprises you after close.

Start with a broad technical assessment. Add focused deep dives where the target, the risks or the deal thesis warrant closer examination.

Targeted deep dives

Add depth where the deal demands it.

Layered diagram: technical due diligence as the foundation, with targeted deep dives on top

AI Evaluation

Pen Testing

OSS Review

Hardware

THE FOUNDATION

Technical Due Diligence

Layered diagram: technical due diligence as the foundation, with targeted deep dives on top

AI Evaluation

Pen Testing

OSS Review

Hardware

THE FOUNDATION

Technical Due Diligence

Upside

Value Creation

Where technology can create value after close. Opportunities sized and sequenced, not just risks flagged.

Leadership

CTO Candidate Assessment

Senior peers evaluate technical leadership candidates before you hand them the keys.

Data

Dataset Transformation

Take the value, leave the liability. Proprietary datasets made usable after close.

Sell-side

Exit Preparedness

Selling or raising? We find what buyer diligence will find, so you can fix it, frame it, and defend the price.

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

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day 04 · architecture overview with the target team

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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

01 / The finding

Growth depends on a manual step.

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

02 / The implication

The growth plan needs more than sales.

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

03 / 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 senior engineers separate genuine capability from marketing claims on provenance, durability and viability, then translate what they find into what the deal team needs to hear.

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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Let’s talk about your next deal.

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