AI due diligence for investors.
Whether the model in the deck is the model in production, who owns the data it learned from, and what it costs to serve. Five to ten working days.
Read a sample report before you commission one.
The sample includes an AI finding — a forecasting product described as live that wasn’t in production. No form, no email address.
What I verify
- Production status — whether the capability being sold is live, piloted, or a roadmap slide with a demo attached.
- Provenance — proprietary model, fine-tune, or a third-party API behind a system prompt — and whether the moat survives that answer.
- Data rights — whether the training and evaluation data was licensed for the use being made of it, and what the customer contracts actually permit.
- Evaluation — how the team knows the system works — measured behaviour, or a demo script and confidence.
- Cost to serve — unit economics at plan volumes, not at demo volumes.
- Dependency — what happens when a model is deprecated, a price changes, or the one engineer who understands the pipeline leaves.
What you get
The same deliverable as a full technical due diligence: a written report with a clear rating and named risks, each with an estimated cost to remediate, then a verbal readout with the deal team and follow-up access through to close.
Where a claim rests on management assertion rather than verified evidence, it’s marked as such — a question to put to the company, not a conclusion.
Timeline and fee
Five to ten working days from data room access; less if the scope is a single claim.
From £4,000 per deal, fixed. As part of a full technical due diligence, it’s covered by the deal fee.
Fixed, because you’re buying a decision, not my hours.
Why me
I’ve shipped AI that had to pay for itself — fraud detection and operations automation with £600,000+ in annualised savings — and I’m currently building an AI product for families with newborns, where a confident wrong answer is the only failure that counts.
I’m not a research engineer. If you need a novel architecture peer-reviewed, that’s a different instruction, and I’ll say so at the scoping call.
I’m currently engaged with businesses in shared mobility and HealthTech. I don’t take due diligence engagements in either, and I’ll say so at first contact if a deal is close to the line.
An AI story carrying the valuation?
Thirty minutes to scope it and confirm there’s no conflict. I reply within one working day.