Who this is for
Investors and acquirers, mostly — funds running DD on a target, or a buyer who wants the platform checked before completion. It also works the other way: founders heading into a raise who'd rather find the awkward answers before the investor's advisor does. Sell-side readiness is the same review with a friendlier deadline.
What I look at
- Architecture and scalability — can it grow to match the deck, or does the roadmap secretly include a rewrite
- Cloud spend health — whether infrastructure economics improve or worsen with scale, and what's hiding in the bill
- Security posture — the same review I run for operating clients, weighted for deal risk
- Key-person risk — how much of the platform lives in one head, undocumented
- Delivery reality — deploy frequency, incident history, how software actually ships versus how they say it does
- Claims versus evidence — certifications, uptime numbers and "enterprise-grade" assertions, tested against what's in the accounts
What you get
A confidential report with red flags ranked by deal impact, each with a realistic cost-to-fix, and a short call to walk it through. Not a hundred-page appendix. The three things that should change your price, and the ten that shouldn't.