What the audit is, what it costs, why we stay independent, and when to engage.
A two-week, fixed-price engagement that produces a board-ready technical diagnosis: a full assessment of the codebase and architecture, a precise description of the target state, and a costed, sequenced remediation roadmap. You own the output unconditionally.
The Platform Risk Audit is a fixed price agreed before we start — no open-ended hours. Modernisation and diligence engagements are scoped from the audit's findings. Book a scoping call and we will give you a number, not a range.
Independent. Kern Advisory is not a build shop, and we are not incentivised to find eighteen months of work. The audit stands on its own — you are free to act on it with your own team, another vendor, or us. A diagnosis you can put in front of a board and an incoming acquirer without discounting it.
Fund partners and portfolio-company leadership across Nordic and Northern-European mid-market software businesses and industrial technology companies, typically in the hold period.
Earlier than most people think. The best time is after the financial buyer's review and well before a trade buyer's technical team is in the data room — while there is still runway to close the gap between "it runs" and "it survives technical due diligence."
Most reports grade a platform with traffic lights and adjectives. Ours describes the target state precisely and gives you a costed remediation sequence — what changes, in what order, at what cost, on what timeline — prioritised by what an acquirer will actually test.
Both, but never as a condition. If you want execution, our Modernisation Sprint runs about three months, hands-on with your engineers — capability transfer rather than dependency, with exit criteria agreed up front.
Book a 30-minute scoping call. We will tell you whether an audit is the right next step and, if so, scope and price it.
Thirty minutes, no obligation. Or email us directly.
Book a 30-Minute Scoping Call