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A mispriced deal or a post-close rewrite is a six-to-seven-figure mistake. Technical due diligence is a fixed fee with a delivery date — a defensible go/no-go/reprice read on the target's technology, delivered while your exclusivity window is still open.
What you walk away with
- IC/lender-ready scored report — signed by a senior technologist.
- Remediation debt — quantified in engineering-months and dollars.
- Founder-dependency and key-person read — what breaks if they walk.
- Preliminary verbal readout in 48–72 hours — so your exclusivity clock keeps moving.
What we assess — beyond the codebase
A codebase review alone is not due diligence. The report scores the target across eight dimensions — the same surface a PE fund's diligence team will probe:
Software & systems inventory
Every custom product, third-party platform, and the SaaS estate behind them — what the business actually runs on, and what it costs to run.
Architecture & infrastructure maturity
Cloud posture, CI/CD, monitoring, single points of failure — and whether it scales against your growth case.
Code quality & open-source exposure
Maintainability, test coverage, and copyleft licence contamination that changes what you actually own.
IP ownership & vendor contracts
Employment and contractor IP assignments, platform agreements, and who keeps the data when a vendor relationship ends.
Security posture & policies
Credential practice, access control, incident response, certifications — what is adopted versus what is on paper.
Data & governance
Data classification, client-data separation, and privacy obligations (PIPEDA, GDPR, HIPAA where they apply).
Operations & resilience
Backups, disaster recovery, RPO/RTO, retention — tested, or theoretical.
Team & key-person risk
Who holds the system in their head, what breaks if they walk, and whether the roadmap is credible without them.
Fixed fee, sized to the target
Standard
$7,500
- ✓One product and the infrastructure behind it
- ✓Target engineering team up to 10
- ✓Up to 4 team interviews
- ✓All eight assessment dimensions
- ✓Two weeks, deal-clock aligned
Extended
from $15,000
- ✓Multiple products, codebases, or cloud estates
- ✓11–40 engineers, or compliance-heavy scope (SOC 2 / HIPAA)
- ✓All eight assessment dimensions
- ✓Three weeks
Undisclosed codebases or products discovered mid-engagement are re-quoted before work continues. Work beyond these caps is billed at $350/hr — agreed in writing first.
Thirty minutes to confirm the target's footprint — then a fixed fee and a delivery date.
How the report holds up
- Signed, scored, and defensible — the report is written for an investment committee or lender and signed by the senior technologist who did the work.
- Priced before we start — by the target's technical footprint, not by the hour, and never as a percentage of the deal. No success fees, ever.
- Deal-clock aligned — the preliminary verbal readout lands 48–72 hours after we get access, while your exclusivity window is still open.
- Remediation in real units — technical debt quantified in engineering-months and dollars, so it feeds your model, not a footnote.
The Reyem Tech ladder
Pick the rung that matches where you are. Each step is a real, productized engagement.
Technical Due Diligence FAQs
Standard ($7,500) covers one product or codebase, a target engineering team of up to 10, and up to four team interviews, delivered in two weeks. Extended (from $15,000) covers multiple codebases or products, 11–40 engineers, or compliance-heavy scope such as SOC 2 or HIPAA, delivered in three weeks. Both tiers cover all eight assessment dimensions — from architecture and security to IP, data governance, and key-person risk — and end in the same IC/lender-ready scored report; the scoping call confirms which tier fits the target's footprint.
The scoping call is thirty minutes to confirm the target's technical footprint — codebases, team size, compliance surface. You get a fixed fee and a delivery date in writing, plus an access checklist (repositories, documentation, interview list). Work starts the day access lands, and the 48–72-hour readout clock starts with it.
The preliminary verbal readout lands 48–72 hours after we get access — early enough to act while your exclusivity window is still open. The full written report follows at the end of the engagement: two weeks on Standard, three on Extended, scheduled around your committee dates.
The fee is set by the target's technical footprint before work starts, not by the hour — so there is no meter running mid-deal. And it is never a percentage of the transaction: no success fees means the report reads the same whether you close or walk away, which is exactly what makes it defensible in front of an investment committee or lender.
Undisclosed codebases or products discovered mid-engagement — anything outside the footprint confirmed at scoping. Work pauses while the addition is quoted, so the fee never silently grows. Work beyond the tier caps (extra interviews, additional systems) is billed at $350/hr, agreed in writing first.
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