What Buyers Miss:

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The data room doesn't match the repo

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Your diligence team can't evaluate the AI and search claims

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Key-person risk the seller will never surface

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.

Request a Diligence Engagement

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.

What's Included

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Architecture & Codebase Review

Structural quality, scalability constraints, dependency risk, and the gap between the data room and the actual repo.

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Engineering Team Assessment

Team structure, tenure, key-person risk, and an honest read on which engineers the target's product actually depends on.

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Security & Compliance Audit

Material vulnerabilities, compliance exposure, and the security practices the team actually follows versus what their policies say.

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AI, Search & Data Infrastructure Evaluation

Deep assessment of AI/ML systems, search architecture, and data infrastructure.

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Written Risk Assessment

Severity-rated, written for a non-technical executive audience, and suitable for board presentation.

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Executive Readout Call

We walk through the findings with your deal team and answer questions directly. One hour, included in scope.

Grant Ingersoll

Grant Ingersoll

  • CTO, Wikimedia Foundation — 18 engineering teams, 150+ people
  • Co-founder & CTO, Lucidworks — scaled to 80+ engineers
  • Author, Taming Text · Apache Lucene committer · Apache Mahout co-founder

"Grant and Vivek helped us at a critical transition time in our business. We were preparing for a high profile new product launch and both our CTO and CPO were transitioning out of the firm. They came in, quickly understood our business, and rolled up their sleeves as true partners to us as we transitioned leadership without missing a beat."

Michael Roth — Co-CEO of Next Street

Rapid turnaround. Written deliverable. Readout call. Fixed price on request.

Request a Diligence Engagement

Share some high level details and your desired timeline. We will confirm availability and scope within 24 hours.