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LCA Strategies
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LCA Strategies
Assess technology assets for M&A, investment, or strategic decisions. Know what you are acquiring before you commit — in clear, executive-ready terms.
Technology assets are difficult to evaluate from the outside. Financial statements reveal revenue, but they cannot tell you whether the codebase can scale to support a growth plan, whether the infrastructure is held together with workarounds, or whether the engineering team will stay through an acquisition. Technical due diligence answers these questions.
We provide experienced, independent technical assessments that give investors and acquirers a clear picture of what they are actually buying — including the risks, the remediation costs, and the opportunities. Every assessment is delivered as a report that non-technical executives can read and act on.
A complete technical due diligence engagement covers code, security, team, infrastructure, and risk.
Evaluate codebase quality, modularity, test coverage, and architectural decisions for scalability, maintainability, and hidden complexity.
Identify security weaknesses, exposed credentials, dependency vulnerabilities, and gaps in security practices that represent acquisition risk.
Estimate the accumulated technical debt — in effort, risk, and cost — that an acquirer would inherit, and prioritize the most critical items.
Review open-source license compliance, third-party IP usage, and regulatory technology requirements that could create post-acquisition liability.
Assess the engineering team's capabilities, key person dependencies, retention risk, and cultural fit with the acquiring organization.
Evaluate cloud infrastructure, deployment practices, observability, and operational maturity to understand what it actually takes to run the product.
Technology problems discovered after an acquisition close are significantly more expensive to address than those surfaced during diligence. Undisclosed technical debt becomes a post-close remediation cost. Security vulnerabilities become liability. Key person dependencies become retention emergencies. Scalability limitations become a ceiling on your growth thesis.
Independent technical due diligence gives you the leverage to renegotiate price, require remediation as a closing condition, or walk away from deals that do not meet your threshold — before you are committed.
For organizations without deep technical leadership, it also provides the vocabulary to have credible conversations with engineering teams and negotiate from a position of knowledge rather than assumption.
Firms evaluating technology-dependent companies before making investment decisions that hinge on the quality and scalability of the technology asset.
Companies considering acquisitions where the target's technology is central to the deal thesis and must be independently validated.
Governance bodies that need independent technical validation before approving material technology investments or acquisitions.
Investment banks and M&A advisors who want their clients to have a credible technical narrative ready before buyer scrutiny begins.
Leadership teams taking over technology environments through merger, reorganization, or leadership transition who need to understand what they have inherited.
We work with you to scope the assessment based on deal size, timeline, and risk areas — delivering the depth you need within your transaction window.
We review code repositories, architecture documentation, infrastructure diagrams, and conduct structured interviews with key engineering personnel.
We evaluate code quality, security posture, architecture fitness, operational maturity, and team capability against deal-specific criteria.
We deliver a clear, structured report with prioritized findings, remediation estimates, and negotiation recommendations — and stand ready to brief your team and advisors.
A comprehensive assessment covers code quality and architecture, security vulnerabilities, technical debt quantification, open-source license compliance, infrastructure and operational maturity, and engineering team evaluation. Each area is assessed against deal-specific criteria and delivered as a structured report with prioritized findings, remediation cost estimates, and negotiation recommendations.
Most assessments are completed in two to four weeks, depending on the scope and complexity of the technology being evaluated. We can accommodate compressed timelines for time-sensitive transactions, though this may require limiting scope to the highest-risk areas. We work within your deal timeline and adjust depth based on materiality.
Ideally, technical due diligence should begin as early as possible after a letter of intent is signed and data room access is granted. Starting early gives you time to request additional information, conduct follow-up interviews, and — if findings warrant it — renegotiate terms or request remediation before closing. Leaving technical assessment to the final days of a deal limits your options.
The most consequential findings typically involve undisclosed security vulnerabilities, critical key-person dependencies where one or two engineers hold all institutional knowledge, technical debt that would require significant post-close investment to remediate, and open-source license violations that create intellectual property risk. These rarely kill deals outright but frequently result in price adjustments or remediation requirements.
Part of our Fractional CTO Services. Also see our standalone Technical Due Diligence service for dedicated M&A assessments.
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