Transactions
Due Diligence
Independent technology assessment for investors, acquisitions and leadership teams.
Buying a business? Understand the technology you are actually inheriting.
Technology is usually the least well understood part of a transaction. Financials are audited. Legal is scrutinised. Technology is frequently taken on trust, on the strength of a demo, an architecture diagram and a confident CTO.
We look past the diagram. A TechGuidr due diligence assesses what has actually been built, how well it is engineered, whether the data underneath it can support the growth case, and what it will genuinely cost to scale, integrate or remediate.
The output is written for an investment committee or a board, not for an engineering team. It says plainly what is strong, what is fragile, what the remediation is likely to cost, and which risks should change the price or the plan.
Who this is built for
- Private equity and venture investors ahead of an investment decision
- Acquirers assessing a target's technology and integration cost
- Boards inheriting a platform they did not commission
- Leadership teams preparing for a raise, sale or refinancing
What you receive
- A written assessment with a clear, evidenced position on each area
- A risk register, rated by commercial impact rather than technical severity
- An indicative remediation and integration cost view
- A verbal readout with the deal team or board, and follow-up availability
How engagements run
Scoped to the transaction timetable. Most assessments run over two to four weeks, with an interim view available early where a decision cannot wait.
How the assessment runs
Typical investment
Fixed scope. Fixed price. Know what the answer costs before we start. All figures ex VAT; the final fixed fee is confirmed after scoping.
- Focused due diligence
- from £7,500
- Full diligence, scoped to deal size, complexity and timetable
- typically £15,000–£35,000+
What you actually get
Illustrative example, not client data. The real thing carries your evidence and your numbers.
TechGuidr
Sample extract
An extract from a diligence report
- Finding
- Data platform does not support the claimed scale
- Evidence
- Single-tenant architecture; no horizontal partitioning; load test failure at 4x current volume
- Commercial impact
- High. The growth case assumes 10x volume in 24 months
- Deal implication
- Price or plan should reflect a platform re-architecture
- Likely remediation
- £350k–£600k over 6–9 months
Illustrative example, not client data. The real document carries your evidence and your numbers.
Proof, not promises
Relevant track record
On one platform review, at a business we refer to as Workforce Intelligence, the user experience suggested a product approaching enterprise readiness. Inspection of the underlying architecture found dashboards disconnected from live data and analytical calculations that did not implement the authoritative methodology. The intervention did not stop at the report: both applications and the underlying data platform were subsequently rebuilt.
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