Technical Due Diligence
Know exactly what you're buying — before you sign.
Overview
Technical Ground Truth for Acquisition Decisions
Acquisitions live or die on what's under the hood. We provide an independent, technical-first assessment of a target company's codebase, architecture, infrastructure, security posture, and engineering team — giving you the ground truth you need to negotiate with confidence and plan integration accurately.
The Problem
Why Technical Diligence Gets Shortchanged
Financial and legal due diligence are standard. But technical diligence is often cursory — a surface-level architecture review that misses the real risks buried in the code, infrastructure, and team dynamics.
Hidden Technical Debt
A product can look polished on the surface while carrying years of accumulated shortcuts, deprecated dependencies, and fragile architecture. This debt becomes your problem post-acquisition.
Inflated Capabilities
Sales decks describe what the product does. Due diligence reveals how it does it — and whether the architecture can actually deliver on the roadmap you're acquiring.
Integration Surprises
Without a deep technical assessment, integration costs are guesswork. Incompatible tech stacks, undocumented dependencies, and bus-factor risks can turn a good deal into a costly one.
What We Deliver
A Comprehensive Technical Assessment
Codebase & Architecture Review
Deep analysis of code quality, architectural patterns, test coverage, dependency health, and technical debt. We assess whether the codebase is a foundation to build on or a liability to manage.
Infrastructure & DevOps Assessment
Evaluation of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, disaster recovery, and operational maturity. We identify fragilities, single points of failure, and scalability constraints.
Security & Compliance Posture
Assessment of security practices, access controls, data handling, encryption, vulnerability management, and compliance status. Critical for understanding regulatory and reputational risk.
Team & Knowledge Assessment
Evaluation of team structure, key-person dependencies, documentation quality, and knowledge distribution. We identify retention risks and capability gaps that affect post-acquisition execution.
Scalability & Performance Analysis
Assessment of current load handling, performance bottlenecks, and architectural limits. We model whether the system can grow with your plans or will require significant re-engineering.
Risk Register & Remediation Costs
A prioritized register of technical risks with severity, likelihood, and estimated remediation costs. Designed to inform your negotiation and integration planning directly.
Who It's For
Is This Right for You?
Technical Due Diligence is essential for anyone making a technology acquisition decision.
- You're acquiring a SaaS company and need an independent technical assessment
- You want to understand the true cost of integration before closing
- You need to validate that the target's technology can deliver on its stated roadmap
- You want to identify key-person risks and retention priorities in the engineering team
- You need a technical risk register to inform deal terms and earn-out structures
Evaluating an acquisition? Contact us or email info@techsight.dev to schedule a confidential consultation.