Technical due diligence for startups and investors
We reduce uncertainty before you invest, acquire, or build. Technology due diligence for private equity, corporate finance advisers, and investors evaluating software businesses. Our team creates transparency around .
London, UK — working with PE firms, brokers, and investors across Europe and beyond.
Technical consulting depth. Clear findings. Decisions your deal team can defend.
How we work
Autonomous consultants, shared technical standards.
The best diligence work comes from people who can follow evidence, question assumptions, and think from first principles. Our consultants are trusted to work independently, then bring findings back into a structured review process.
Why it converts
Confidence without slowing the deal.
Buyers need more than a technical opinion. They need evidence they can use in valuation, negotiation, risk planning, and post-close integration.
Decision-ready output
Clear findings, risk ratings, commercial implications, and follow-up questions for founders, advisers, and investment committees.
Minimally invasive review
Focused document requests, targeted interviews, and read-only technical access where possible, designed around live deal timelines.
Technical operators
Assessments are led by people who understand architecture, code quality, cloud cost, delivery trade-offs, and AI implementation depth.
Confidential handling
NDA-led process, controlled access, no public client disclosure, and data handling expectations agreed before review work starts.
What clients say
Trust is built in the hard moments.
References from leaders who needed technical depth, calm assessment, and clear answers under pressure.
Clarity under pressure
“Daniel worked on some highly visible customer deliveries. Some of these were extremely complex but Daniel picked each up and turned them around in next to no time and to a great standard, meaning minimum time for on-site implementation and troubleshooting and maximum positive impact on Snell's reputation with the customer (and colleagues!).”
Matt Platt
Transformation Director
Trusted advisor
“Daniel was a very helpful contact within the development team, willing to manage his time to assist us with ad-hoc queries without impacting his primary tasks. His cheerful nature, patience and willingness to explain solutions were appreciated in what could be a pressing environment.”
Rob Jones
Director
Technical depth
“Dan has been an invaluable technical expert for the business in helping build out a core management information system, as well as taking the lead on AI and automation proof of concepts. Great to work with and very knowledgeable, would recommend!”
Glenn
COO, X4 Group
We provide technology due diligence for private equity firms, corporate finance advisers, and investors evaluating software businesses. Our work identifies risks, value potential, mitigation actions, and the practical roadmap required after close — grounded in hands-on engineering and technical consulting experience.
We also support law firms and legal due diligence teams when software, SaaS or AI transactions need deeper technical review.
Technical transparency before the deal closes.
We assess the target's code, architecture, delivery process, infrastructure, data, AI claims, and team resilience so investors understand what they are really buying.
Where is the source code?
We confirm repository access, ownership, branching structure, dependency health, and whether the codebase matches what has been described in diligence.
How many contributors?
We look at commit history and contributor patterns to see whether knowledge is spread across a team or concentrated in one or two people.
When was the last commit?
Recent activity helps distinguish a living product from shelfware, abandoned prototypes, or systems that only move during fundraising.
What's the deployment process?
We review CI/CD, release controls, rollback paths, environments, and how safely the team can ship changes after investment.
What technical debt exists?
We identify debt that affects security, scalability, maintainability, delivery speed, and the future cost of product change.
What's the cloud bill?
We assess whether infrastructure spend is proportionate to usage, where costs may spike, and what optimisation or scaling risks exist.
What's the bus factor?
We test how much critical knowledge sits with specific individuals and what happens if they leave, disengage, or become unavailable.
Is there documentation?
We check whether architecture, onboarding, operations, APIs, and incident processes are documented enough for the team to keep moving.
Is the AI real or ChatGPT wrapped in marketing?
We inspect the data, models, prompts, integrations, costs, and defensibility behind AI claims so investors know what is genuinely proprietary.
The output is practical: risk ratings, upside potential, mitigation actions, and a roadmap your deal team can use.
Current capacity
Multiple reviews running in parallel
A dedicated team of infrastructure, security, and engineering specialists supports each engagement. Typical turnaround is two to three weeks for a full acquisition report.
In progress
4SaaS acquisition review
AI capability assessment
Infrastructure & cloud cost audit
Investor technical review
Reporting
2CTO & team due diligence
Security & code quality review
- •Startup or pre-deal screening
- •AI capability verification
- •Key risk summary report
- •Executive briefing call
- •Typical turnaround: 5–7 days
- •Product, engineering & infrastructure review
- •Code quality, security & technical debt
- •Team, bus factor & knowledge concentration
- •Cloud cost profile & scalability
- •Commercial technology defensibility
- •Written report + management presentation
- •Portfolio-wide technology oversight
- •Pre-deal screening on demand
- •Broker and adviser partnership
- •Board and investment committee support
- •Repeat mandate pricing available
Sample scope
Download what a report covers
A concise PDF showing the product, engineering, infrastructure, team, and commercial areas reviewed during technical due diligence.
How it works
A disciplined process designed for deal timelines and confidentiality.
Frequently asked questions
Before you invest, acquire, or build — get clarity first.
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