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— Challenges
You might need tech due diligence if you’re struggling with…
Codebase
Bugs, outdated stack, and no monitoring?
- The system is buggy with frequent failures
- The product tech stack is outdated, and your team is resistant to upgrades
- It’s been a while since you conducted a comprehensive system audit
Delivery
Deadlines fail, priorities shift, delivery misaligned?
- Deadlines keep being postponed
- It’s hard to make strategic technical decisions
- Delivered features mismatch with your business goals
Business Strategy
Unclear tech status before key business decisions?
- Stakeholders ask for a tech audit before the investment round, scaling, or M&A
- The technical status of the product and development processes is unclear
— Our solutions
We Provide Technical Due Diligence
Technical Verification
Get an objective and detailed technical assessment to assure investors, boards, and executive teams of the business’s tech stance.
Data-Driven Planning
Develop a clear roadmap for a major system update, code refactoring initiative, or considerable scaling.
System Adaptation
Align technology capabilities with business objectives before strategic decisions like mergers and acquisitions.
Operational Synergy
Improve communication and understanding between technical teams and non-technical management.
Risk Prevention
Ensure business continuity by minimizing technology-borne risks and bottlenecks.
Emergency Rescue
Identify and mitigate technical issues and debt when already in crisis.
— Our Services
Our Technical Due Diligence Services
Solution Architecture Audit
- Architecture documentation review
- System structure, tech stack, and design patterns analysis
- Scalability, extensibility, performance, and security evaluation
- Codebase maintainability, third-party integrations, API endpoints,
and data management review - Technical debt assessment
Server (Back-End) Review
- Overview of code structure and data handling logic
- Third-party service integrations and API implementation analysis
- Error handling, exception management, and performance checkup
- Review of authentication and authorization mechanisms
- Logging, observability, and test coverage assessment
UI/UX Evaluation
- Evaluation of UI/UX responsiveness and adaptability across screen sizes/devices
- Review of visual design consistency, layout clarity, and information hierarchy
- User flow, navigation, and accessibility analysis
- Review of user interaction patterns, animations, transitions, etc.
- Compliance checkup against brand guidelines and design system
QA Evaluation
- Overall testing strategy and coverage review
- Overview of manual testing procedures and test automation tools utilized
- Test environment setup and data management
- Analysis of continuous testing integration within the CI/CD pipeline
- Review of metrics and KPIs used to measure QA effectiveness
Application Code Audit
- Checkup for known vulnerabilities in third-party libraries and dependencies
- Discovery of insecure coding patterns and practices
(SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, hardcoded sensitive data) - Review of code security, reliability, and maintainability:
input validation, error handling, logging, etc. - Elimination of excessive complexity and code readability issues
Front-End Review
- Overview of code structure and maintainability, performance optimization
- Framework and library usage analysis
- Client-side logic security, data handling, and API consumption audit
- Review of error handling, user feedback mechanisms,
and test coverage
Mobile App Review
- Analysis of codebase structure and compliance with platform-specific standards and app store guidelines
- Review of UI/UX consistency and responsiveness across screen sizes and devices
- App startup time and runtime performance assessment
- Analysis of connectivity and data handling security
- Review of testing coverage, crash reporting, analytics,
and user feedback collection
— Success stories
Our Tech Due Diligence Case Studies
[01]
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Zapme
The client faced challenges in launching their product due to a faulty functionality and an unusable UI.
Our tech due diligence experts inspected the product’s infrastructure, architecture, and back end and found missing CI/CD, security vulnerabilities present in code, and an insecure user authentication flow.
Axon’s software engineers provided the recommendations and set up an effective CI/CD pipeline, eliminated coding vulnerabilities, and implemented proper user authentication and authorization.
[02]
Muse Frame
The client requested a tech due diligence before scaling from the MVP stage.
Our audit discovered a completely missing CI/CD pipeline and proper documentation that would have a huge impact on deployment speed and new feature delivery, as well as cause new team onboarding issues.
Our engineers suggested and implemented a solid CI/CD pipeline and developed high-quality and complete system documentation to facilitate knowledge sharing and team communication
on the project.
[03]
Izy
The client needed due diligence services to start a major scaling of their platform.
Having reviewed the system infrastructure and architecture, and code, Axon engineers revealed the lack of a CI/CD pipeline and containerization, excessively complex configurations, and horizontal scaling issues.
We provided and implemented the needed recommendations to streamline the product scaling and further development.
— technologies
Technologies We Use for Due Diligence
Static Code Analysis
For code:
SonarQube
for IaaC:
Checkov
Diagrams
tools:
Lucidchart
excalidraw
— specialists
Involved Specialists and Their Roles
To carry out a rigorous review of each system component, we assign relevant subject matter experts with at least 10 years of experience on various software development projects and different software types.
Developer
- Reviews code quality, structure, and adherence to best practices.
- Looks for technical debt and implementation issues.
Project Manager
- Assesses delivery timelines, team organization, and workflow efficiency
- Evaluates execution risk and project health.
UI/UX Expert
- Evaluates interface design and user experience consistency.
- Identifies usability gaps and accessibility concerns.
Architect
- Reviews system architecture, scalability, and integration points.
- Assesses system’s long-run stability, reliability, and maintainability.
Business Analyst
- Maps business requirements to implemented features.
- Identifies misalignments or gaps in functionality and product value.
— process
Our Technical Due Diligence Process
STEP 1
Discovery
- Conduct an initial interview
- Understand your business and goals
- Identify needs and challenges
- Define audit components and prepare the audit roadmap
- Understand your business and goals
- Identify needs and challenges
- Define audit components and prepare the audit roadmap
STEP 2
Analysis
- Collect relevant data about your system
- Process and analyse the collected data with manual and automation tools
- Conduct additional interviews for clarification, if needed
- Verify and discuss findings with relevant experts
- Process and analyse the collected data with manual and automation tools
- Conduct additional interviews for clarification, if needed
- Verify and discuss findings with relevant experts
STEP 3
Reporting
- Arrange a reporting meeting
- Present the audit findings
- Present recommendations and evaluations
- Present the audit findings
- Present recommendations and evaluations
STEP 4
Implementation
- Collaborate to create an implementation action plan
- Implement the agreed recommendations
- Implement the agreed recommendations
STEP 5
Control
- Monitor the system metrics after the implementation of changes
- Make additional corrections if needed
- Make additional corrections if needed
STEP 6
Knowledge Sharing
- Arrange training sessions with your in-house team/existing vendor
- Transfer the audit documentation and findings
- Transfer the audit documentation and findings
— how to
Read How We Performed Tech Due Diligence for Our Clients
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— what you get
Technical Due Diligence Deliverables
As a result of our tech due diligence services, you will get a summary report, including:
[01]
System description
Detailed overview of the current state of the system, its key elements, underlying services and dependencies, how they interact, and which ones are missing or defective.
[02]
Problematic component analysis
Review of the missing or defective component(s), with explanation of their role in the system as a whole and specific application functions in particular.
[03]
Found inconsistencies report
List of the revealed flaws in code, system architecture,
or infrastructure that cause the described problems,
their impact, and degree of severity.
or infrastructure that cause the described problems,
their impact, and degree of severity.
[04]
Defined and prioritized recommendations
Expert guidelines on the mitigation and elimination of the discovered errors, based on the best practices of software development and industry standards.
— advantages
Why Choose Us for Tech DD
[01]
Tech experts on your side
We will act as your tech-savvy hands and eyes.
We will act as your tech-savvy hands and eyes.
[02]
Safe and secure
We guarantee complete confidentiality and data protection backed by an NDA.
We guarantee complete confidentiality and data protection backed by an NDA.
— REVIEWS
What Clients Say About Our Diligence Services
They went above and beyond for all of our development needs and all members of the team were amazing to work with.
CEO, Muse Frame
The team pays attention to all business requirements and how they will meet the needs of our end users.
CTO, Fabnite AS
Axon’s expertise and attention to detail led to higher standards in the development of our software and prevented cost overruns.
CEO at Hold Me Ltd
Axon been a great partner along the way and Madgicx.com has become the fastest-growing AI Marketing Platform for omnichannel ad optimization.
CEO at Madgicx.com
Offered good ideas and feedback to improve the product.
Founder at Licorice
They went above and beyond for all of our development needs and all members of the team were amazing to work with.
CEO, Muse Frame
The team pays attention to all business requirements and how they will meet the needs of our end users.
CTO, Fabnite AS
Axon’s expertise and attention to detail led to higher standards in the development of our software and prevented cost overruns.
CEO at Hold Me Ltd
Axon been a great partner along the way and Madgicx.com has become the fastest-growing AI Marketing Platform for omnichannel ad optimization.
CEO at Madgicx.com
Offered good ideas and feedback to improve the product.
Founder at Licorice
— faq
Questions & Answers
The duration of tech due diligence depends on a range of factors: your system’s size and complexity, the required depth of analysis, the components to be checked, the tech stack, and the project’s documentation availability. Thus, the tech due diligence process may take from 1 up to 3 weeks, with particularly large and high-risk projects extending to 4+ weeks.
In terms of data confidentiality, our tech due diligence services are no different than other software development services we provide. Therefore, when clients order a tech audit, we follow similar procedures: sign an NDA with all the involved parties, limit data access only to relevant team members, and ensure secure data exchange (encryption, data anonymization, VPNs). We also have strict internal security policies in place.
Technical due diligence helps business owners reveal software and development issues that may impact their product launch, scaling, acquisition, and other strategic business activities. Such issues include infrastructure inefficiencies like improper resource consumption or a lack of deployment automation, weak or mismatching architecture design, coding flaws and security vulnerabilities, inadequate UI/UX, insufficient or poorly implemented testing, and even lousy project management.
Business due diligence focuses on a company’s commercial, financial, and operational aspects, such as revenue streams, business model, customer base, market position, legal obligations, and potential business risks or liabilities. Meanwhile, technical due diligence concentrates on the state of health of the software system or product that the company relies on or produces.
Tech due diligence is a type of service requested by tech business stakeholders, such as founders and CEOs, CTOs and CIOs, investors, acquirers, venture capital firms, or private equities. Founders, CEOs, CTOs, and CIOs typically want to validate the product or get a second opinion about their systems, while investors, acquirers, and VCs usually need a pre-investment evaluation and tech status of their object of interest.
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