Acquiring a company is a bet on its technology. Most acquirers underestimate what they are actually buying — and overestimate what the seller’s team will tell them about it.
Hidden technical debt, architectural lock-in, phantom security posture, engineering team dysfunction, and AI and data infrastructure that cannot scale — these are the problems that surface six months after close. By then, the deal is done, the price is paid, and the remediation cost falls entirely on you.
PE-grade diligence, run by operators
Grant and the Develomentor team run diligence the way they ran engineering organizations as operators — at Wikimedia, Lucidworks, and beyond. We are retained directly by PE firms and corporate acquirers including Munich RE, Berenson Capital, and Serent Capital to look past the seller’s narrative and tell you what you are actually buying: where the architecture will break under your investment thesis, which engineers carry the institutional knowledge, and what the realistic remediation cost looks like in dollars and quarters.
For a worked example, see our enterprise search due diligence case study — a deal where the team’s relevance and retrieval expertise surfaced platform risk that materially shaped the transaction.
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This is a fixed-scope engagement: short timeframe — often two weeks or less — written deliverable, readout call. Use the form below to describe the transaction and timeline, and we will confirm availability and scope within 24 hours.
