Know what you are buying, in numbers.
Technical due diligence for private equity and venture capital, on either side of the deal. We read the code, the pipelines, the tickets and the org chart, and translate what we find into EBITDA impact.
What we look at
Six questions behind every number in the report.
Architectural rot
Where the design no longer fits the product, and what it will cost to keep shipping on top of it.
Vendor lock
Which platforms, models and suppliers the business cannot leave, and what leaving would cost.
Key-person risk
Which systems only one person understands, and what happens to delivery if that person goes.
Hidden operating cost
Cloud spend, manual work and incidents that do not show in the deck but do show in the P&L.
Security and compliance
SOC 2 and ISO 27001, and if the company sells into Europe, NIS2, DORA and the EU AI Act.
The AI story
Most decks claim AI has made the engineering team faster. We check that claim against the delivery data, because the research says it is usually wrong.
What you get
Not a findings deck.
A ranked list of risks, each with a cost attached. Something you can put in front of an investment committee.
- Ranked risks with a cost on each
- A summary your investment committee can use
- A 100-day plan for after close
Either side of the table
The same review, for whoever needs the truth first.
Buying
What you are actually getting, and what it will cost to fix.
Selling
The same review before the buyer runs it, so you fix what they would find and price what you cannot.
After the deal
The plan does not stop at signing, and neither do we.
The same method carries into the 100-day plan. A focused assessment per portfolio company puts every company on the same metric definitions, and Verdict’s portfolio view shows them side by side, so the operating partner compares like with like.
When the plan needs building, we build it. Platforms, pipelines and modernization, done by the same senior team that wrote the findings.
We have been on both sides
Of the platform, and of the deal.
Acquired
At a task mining startup, we rebuilt the platform and moved releases from yearly to monthly. The buyer’s technical due diligence singled out the platform design, and the company was acquired by ServiceNow. We then led the re-platforming of the product inside the acquirer.
Talk to us about a deal.
First calls take 30 minutes. Buy side or sell side, we will tell you on the call what a review would cover and how long it would take.