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Technical diligence
Technical diligence intelligence examining the operating conditions, decisions, dependencies, and evidence that matter in consequential private and institutional environments.
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The Buyer Is Purchasing Every Unresolved Exception
Temporary access, unsupported software, founder workarounds and expired waivers become the buyer’s operating reality at close.
Article / Capital & Diligence
Decision Memo: Remediate Before Close or Contain After?
Some findings must be fixed before ownership changes. Others are safer to contain and remediate under buyer control. Decide by consequence and proof.
Article / Capital & Diligence
Enterprise Value Includes the Right to Change Vendors
A company that cannot retrieve its data, replace a provider or transfer operational knowledge does not fully control the capability investors are valuing.
Article / Capital & Diligence
The Investment Committee Should Read the Access Map
A company’s real concentration risk often sits in administrator accounts, recovery routes, vendors and people who can change production without formal approval.
Article / Capital & Diligence
The Separation Timeline Is a Security Assumption
A carve-out timeline assumes identities, networks, data, vendors and administrators can be separated without losing control or carrying hidden trust forward.
Article / Capital & Diligence
Technical Diligence Needs a Kill Question
A long risk register can obscure the one dependency, exposure or control failure capable of invalidating the investment thesis.
Article / Capital & Diligence
Operating Guide: Turn a Technical Finding into a Deal Term
A diligence finding has value only when it changes price, condition, covenant, holdback, warranty, insurance or the integration plan.
Article / Capital & Diligence
The Best Underwriting Model Includes Operational Shame
The most expensive risks are often the practices management is embarrassed to describe: shared credentials, manual fixes, founder exceptions and unreported.
Dossier / Capital & Diligence
Technical Diligence Should Be Trying to Break the Thesis
The job of technical diligence is not to admire the target’s controls. It is to find the technical facts capable of breaking the investment thesis before.
Assessment / Capital & Diligence
The 30-Day Window Where Technology Risk Becomes Yours
A post-close technology control plan for the first 30 days: preserve evidence, contain inherited exposure, stabilise authority and gate integration.
Observation / Capital & Diligence
Control Follows the Identity Layer After Close
The buyer may own the shares at close, but practical control follows accounts, administrators, recovery paths and machine identities.
Doctrine / Capital & Diligence
Security Debt Belongs in the Underwriting Model
Security debt is not a technical footnote. It changes purchase price, integration cost, insurance, execution risk and the credibility of the investment thesis.