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 technical maturity, debt, scalability, risk, and value potential.
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.
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.
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?
How many contributors?
When was the last commit?
What's the deployment process?
What technical debt exists?
What's the cloud bill?
What's the bus factor?
Is there documentation?
Is the AI real or ChatGPT wrapped in marketing?
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.
Representative active workstreams. Client details withheld under confidentiality.
- •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
What a report covers
Structured analysis across the dimensions that matter when capital is on the line.
- •Active development & release cadence
- •Roadmap credibility vs customer demand
- •Feature claims vs actual capability
- •Technical product-market fit signals
- •Code quality & architecture review
- •Test coverage & CI/CD maturity
- •Security posture & vulnerability exposure
- •Technical debt quantification
- •Source control & contributor analysis
- •AWS, Azure & cloud architecture
- •Cost profile & scalability limits
- •Deployment process & reliability
- •Disaster recovery & operational maturity
- •Key personnel & bus factor
- •Knowledge concentration risk
- •Recruitment & retention exposure
- •Documentation & onboarding quality
- •Is the claimed technology defensible?
- •Is the AI real or marketing wrapper?
- •IP, licensing & third-party dependencies
- •Integration risk for acquirers
How it works
A disciplined process designed for deal timelines and confidentiality.
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
Frequently asked questions
Before you invest, acquire, or build — get clarity first.
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