Assessment line 01 · Investor, acquirer and board side
Technology Due Diligence that price tag and deal team can actually take to committee.
Four weeks inside the target's code, architecture, team, contracts and run costs. You receive an independent rubric score, a benchmark against peer acquisitions, and a worklist where every single finding carries a cost to fix.
2 to 4
Weeks from scoping call to readout
6
Examination areas, each independently scored
Every
Finding priced, sequenced and ready to negotiate on
3
Fixed fee tiers, agreed in writing beforehand
Where it sits
The report lands before the committee meets, not after.
Figure 1 · Diligence window inside a transactionAuditTrax Labs
The window is short and it is the only one you get. We scope in writing on day one so the calendar is spent on evidence rather than on deciding what the engagement covers.
What we examine
Six areas, each scored against the AuditTrax Index.
01
Architecture and scale headroom
We model the system at the load your investment case assumes, not the load it carries today, and identify the first component that gives way.
02
Code quality and technical debt
Static analysis across the estate, then manual review of the parts that matter. We separate debt that is untidy from debt that slows release.
03
Engineering organisation and key person risk
Who actually holds the system in their heads, what happens if they leave in the first year, and whether the hiring plan is achievable.
04
Security posture and exposure
External surface, identity and access, secrets handling, and incident history. We look for findings that become disclosure obligations.
05
Third party, licence and data exposure
Open source licences that conflict with distribution, vendor contracts with change of control, and data held without clear rights.
06
Run cost and unit economics
What the platform costs to run per customer today, and how that curve behaves as volume grows.
Tiers and pricing
Three tiers, fixed fee, agreed before work starts.
Tier 1 · Red Flag Screening
Screening
Fast read before committing major deal resources.
$22,000
- High-level architecture review
- Key person risk identification
- Red flag summary memo
Tier 2 · Most chosen
Full Diligence
Complete examination across all six pillars.
$44,000
- All six examination pillars
- Code analysis & architecture modeling
- Full worklist with costed fixes
- Assessor call with deal committee
Tier 3 · High Stakes
Diligence + Testing
Hands-on load testing and security penetration.
$65,000
- Everything in Full Diligence
- Synthetic load and scale stress testing
- Targeted penetration testing
Questions we get asked
The awkward ones, answered first.
Will the target organisation know we are asking?
Diligence can be conducted fully discreetly or in collaboration with the target engineering leadership depending on your deal stage.
How fast can you start?
We deploy within 48 hours of scope signature once code access and interview permissions are granted.
What if the target refuses code access?
We state the limitation on page one and perform external surface analysis, documentation audit, and technical interviews instead.
Technology Due Diligence
Price the technology risk before you sign the deal.
Thirty minutes is usually enough to scope it.