Technical due diligence for investors.
The technology, the team, and what it will cost to fix — not the pitch deck version. Five to ten working days.
Read a sample report before you commission one.
The report is the product. No form, no email address — you should be able to judge the work by looking at it.
What I assess
- Architecture — whether it survives the next order of magnitude.
- Engineering team — capability, key-person risk, and whether delivery velocity is real or reported.
- Technical debt, quantified — with a remediation cost and a timeline, not an adjective.
- Security and compliance posture — including data protection exposure.
- Vendors — Build-versus-buy history and vendor lock-in.
- IP ownership and licensing hygiene — including whether contractors actually assigned what they built.
- AI and ML claims versus what’s running in production — increasingly the reason funds commission this at all.
If the AI story is carrying most of the valuation, verifying it is a discipline of its own.
What you get
A written report with a clear rating and named risks, each with an estimated cost to remediate.
A verbal readout with the deal team, and follow-up access for questions through to close.
What it’s like for the company
Ten days of read-only access and about seven hours of interviews. I don’t ask engineers to prepare decks — if a claim matters, I verify it where it runs.
Early-stage mess is ordinary and gets reported as ordinary. The findings that make the report are the ones that change the deal.
What I need from the company
- Read-only source control, the cloud console and billing, the observability stack, and the delivery board.
- Interviews with the CTO and two or three engineers.
That’s the whole ask. Investors forward this page to the founder; it works fine as the introduction.
Timeline and fee
- Screening — two days — the data room read, one interview with the CTO, and a short memo on whether anything warrants the full review. £2,500.
- Full review — nine domains, five to ten working days from data room access. From £6,000 per deal.
Both fixed fee, because you’re buying a decision, not my hours.
Conflicts policy
I’m currently engaged with businesses in shared mobility and HealthTech. I don’t take due diligence engagements in car sharing, car clubs, fleet, vehicle telematics or HealthTech. I’ll say so at first contact if a deal is close to the line. Everything else — marketplaces, B2B SaaS, fintech operations, public sector technology — is open.
Why me
I’ve been on the other side of this. I’ve built the systems, run the procurement, written the tenders and been diligenced.
I know where the bodies are buried because I’ve buried a few.
Got a deal in the data room?
Thirty minutes to scope it and confirm there’s no conflict. I reply within one working day.