Assessing Digital Products and the Organizations building them
Technical Due Diligence
Software systems, their code bases and the teams building them are an asset. Before taking a big decision about them, it is usual to have them audited. If you need a due diligence audit, you can profit from the multitude of audits I have conducted, either on my own, or as the subcontractor of a bigger consulting firm.
Depending on the stage of your target, I have different offers for you.
- For seed or Series A startups, I can offer you an audit at a fixed price.
- For larger targets, depending on your risk exposure, we could either do a fixed-time audit at a fixed price, or set up a due diligence project.
- If you are the target, I also offer support to prepare for a due diligence process.
During my audit, I will look at
- Product and product management approach
- Product development team and product development process
- Technology, i.e. architecture, code, custom hardware
- Technical product operations and security
These are the verticals I have done software or hardware product due diligence assessments:
- Travel
- PropTech
- AgriTech
- Medical
- Logistics
- Information Security
- CAD
- Business IT
These are technologies I have successfully been able to audit:
- Internet of Things (IoT) / Smart Home
- Embedded
- Machine Learning, up to a point, I would not feel qualified to audit OpenAI ;)
- 3D Graphics
- Mobile Apps
- Web and Backend Applications
- Desktop Applications
- Map-based Applications / GIS
- Cloud Services
Assessing your Organization
Sometimes you need a third party to assess your product development organization, or a part thereof. This often happens e.g. on management change, as a “post-mortem analysis” after some kind of failure, before a bigger change to the organization, or in preparation to sell a company.
Having done these projects in the past for digital product companies, I can say that every project is different. Still we can usually define a fixed price for the assessment. Just contact me to start the discussion!
Of course, I am open to share and explain my findings with members of your organization.
Code Base Assessment
Before taking a big decision about the future of one of your software systems, it can be helpful to get an outside opinion. My assessment can help you with these decisions:
- Replace or Improve?
- What is the right setup for the system’s maintenance and development?
- Is a big development investment viable?
- Is a system’s continued development still economically feasible?
- What is the right approach towards a technology update / migration?
- What investment is needed for a system to scale to X users?
Depending on the circumstances, more or less effort is needed. In any case I will need access to the code base and to a test environment. You can count on my discretion, and I will of course sign a non-disclosure agreement.