Pre-close · Investor grade
IT & Technology Due Diligence
A complete read on the technology estate of an acquisition target: what it costs, what is deferred, what is fragile, and what it will take to bring it up to standard.
- Typical timeline
- Typically 2–4 weeks
- Best suited to
- Acquirers, investment committees, corporate development teams
- Commercial model
- Fixed fee, agreed before kickoff
What you get out of it
Outcomes
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A quantified technology cost baseline you can model against
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Deferred maintenance and technical debt priced, not just described
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Security and compliance gaps that change the risk profile of the deal
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Integration and separation costs estimated with real numbers
Scope
What we actually look at
Scope is confirmed with you in writing before the engagement begins. Anything outside it is priced separately rather than absorbed quietly.
Estate and spend
- Full application, infrastructure and vendor inventory
- Licensing position and true-up exposure
- Cloud, hosting, telecom and connectivity contracts
- Support model, staffing ratios and outsourced dependencies
Risk and resilience
- Security posture against a recognised control baseline
- Backup, recovery and tested continuity capability
- End-of-life and unsupported systems still carrying the business
- Concentration risk in single vendors, systems or individuals
Fit and integration
- Effort and cost to integrate or carve out
- Data migration complexity and hidden couplings
- Contract change-of-control and assignment clauses
- Synergy candidates that are actually achievable in year one
Deliverables
What lands on your desk
Written to be read by the people who have to act on it — an operator, a CFO, an investment committee — not to justify the fee by weight.
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Technology due diligence report with an evidence appendix
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Cost baseline and normalised run-rate
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Remediation plan with cost, sequence and owner
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Integration or separation cost estimate