Acquiring a company is a bet on its technology. Most acquirers underestimate what they are actually buying — and overestimate what the seller’s team will tell them about it.
Hidden technical debt, architectural lock-in, phantom security posture, engineering team dysfunction, and AI and data infrastructure that cannot scale — these are the problems that surface six months after close. By then, the deal is done, the price is paid, and the remediation cost falls entirely on you.
PE-grade diligence, run by operators
Grant and the Develomentor team run diligence the way they ran engineering organizations as operators — at Wikimedia, Lucidworks, and beyond. We are retained directly by PE firms and corporate acquirers to look past the seller’s narrative and tell you what you are actually buying: where the architecture will break under your investment thesis, which engineers carry the institutional knowledge, and what the realistic remediation cost looks like in dollars and quarters.
For a worked example, see our enterprise search due diligence case study — a deal where the team’s relevance and retrieval expertise surfaced platform risk that materially shaped the transaction.
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This is a fixed-scope engagement: short timeframe — often two weeks or less — written deliverable, readout call. Use the form below to describe the transaction and timeline, and we will confirm availability and scope within 24 hours.
