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Platform debt you inherit on day one
Unsupported CMS versions, abandoned modules, custom code with no owner. The upgrade nobody budgeted for is usually the first cost after close.
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Technology diligence · Digital estate
Know what the digital estate really costs before you sign for it.
A technical diligence pass on the websites, applications, and integrations a target actually runs. Platforms and versions, security exposure, integration dependencies, cost to carry, and a ranked view of what has to be fixed and when.
Evidence, not opinion Fixed scope, fixed fee Deal-timeline aware
Request a diligence scoping
Tell us the situation. An engineering lead reviews it and replies in writing within one business day with the scope, the evidence we would gather, and what it would cost.
Estates we run for global brands, member organizations and serial acquirers.
What the data room does not tell you
The estate looks fine in a deck. It rarely looks fine in the pipelines.
Four things reliably surface after close when nobody looked properly before it.
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Integrations nobody documented
CRM, billing, identity, data warehouse. The connections that actually run the business are rarely in the data room, and they are what break during separation.
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Security and compliance exposure
Unpatched vulnerabilities, unmanaged access, missing audit trails, accessibility obligations. Cheap to find now, expensive to find later.
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The real cost to carry
Hosting, licences, contractor dependency, per-release effort. Run-rate is a spreadsheet line until someone reads the pipelines.
The question is not whether the estate has problems. Every estate has problems. The question is which of them changes the price, and which of them changes the plan.
What a diligence pass covers
Three passes over the estate. Each one produces evidence you can show.
Estate inventory
- Every site, application, and environment we can evidence
- Platform and version per property
- Ownership and contractor dependency map
Technical condition
- Code health, test coverage, release process
- Security posture and known vulnerability exposure
- Performance, accessibility, and data protection gaps
Cost and remediation
- Run-rate today, with the line items behind it
- Prioritized remediation plan with effort ranges
- What is safe to defer and what is not
What you receive
Three artifacts, written for the people who decide. Not a 90-slide audit.
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Findings memo
Ten pages or fewer. Ranked findings, evidence behind each one, and the commercial consequence stated plainly. Written for an investment committee, not an engineering standup.
Plain language · Evidence linked
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Risk register
Each finding with severity, likelihood, remediation effort range, and whether it belongs pre-close, first 100 days, or the following year.
Severity ranked · Timeline mapped
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Remediation roadmap
The sequence a competent team would actually follow, with the dependency order that keeps the estate running while it changes.
Sequenced · Costed in ranges
Why we can price this
These were not assessments. They were the remediation that follows one.
A diligence memo is only as good as the cost estimates inside it, and ours come from having done the work. Some of it followed a deal. Some did not. The estate problem is the same either way, and so is what it costs to fix.
In flightPattern: serial acquirer, four brands
A manufacturer that has acquired three companies in two years and now runs four brands whose customers overlap but whose systems do not.
- Clarion Safety, Arrow Industrial, Machine Safety Specialists and McLoone onto one CRM
- One pipeline, so a lead arriving at any brand is visible to the rest
- Integrated to the ERP that remains the operational backbone
- Brand domains and identities kept separate, deliberately
Pattern: multi-property consolidation
A global event operator with fragmented registration and commerce across 40+ markets, and no unified view of the athlete.
- IRONMAN and Pro Series properties merged with zero service disruption
- 1M+ athlete records unified into a single data platform
- System load down 70 percent, race-day uptime 99.99 percent
- Editorial publishing time down 50 to 60 percent
Pattern: fragmented data consolidation
The world's largest diving organization, with certification data fragmented across thousands of dive shops and a legacy platform capping international growth.
- 6,500+ partner shops on a unified platform
- Multi-language, multi-currency commerce live globally
- Certification data consolidated into one system of record
- International growth no longer gated by the member platform
This is the estate a serial acquirer builds without meaning to. It is also the one a diligence pass is supposed to find.
How this can go
Assessment first. Everything after it is your call.
You can stop after the memo. Plenty of firms do, and that is a good outcome: you priced the estate with evidence instead of assumption.
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Assessment
A time-boxed diligence pass on the estate. You get the memo, the register, and the roadmap. Nothing else committed.
1 to 3 weeks · Fixed scope, fixed fee
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Blueprint
If the findings warrant it, we turn the roadmap into an executable plan: architecture, sequencing, team shape, and the metric each phase moves.
2 to 4 weeks · Optional
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Build
We execute alongside your team or the portfolio company's team. Joint discovery, shared backlog, our engineers accountable for the same outputs as yours.
Engagement-shaped · Optional
Send us the situation. We will tell you what a pass would find.
Written response inside one business day: scope, evidence we would gather, timeline, and fee. If a diligence pass is not what you need, we will say that instead.