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Notes on surviving technical diligence.

Short, opinionated pieces on where platform risk hides in the hold period — and what it takes to make a portfolio company exit-ready before a trade buyer's engineers are in the data room.

Diligence

Why trade buyers reject deals financial buyers waved through

Strategic acquirers bring their own engineers to due diligence. The platform risk that cleared a financial buyer's light-touch review is exactly what they find — and price out.

Method

What a board-ready platform risk audit actually contains

Not a traffic-light slide. A two-week, fixed-price diagnosis: the real state of the codebase, the target state described precisely, and a costed remediation sequence you own outright.

Execution

Sequencing technical debt for exit: hold-period modernisation

Not every debt is worth paying down before a sale. Retire what a buyer will test and price; defer the rest. Three months aimed at exit-readiness — not an eighteen-month rewrite.

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