How is a code audit different from technical due diligence?

A code audit reduces quality and security risk in a system you intend to keep running, and its deliverable is a severity-rated findings register and a remediation roadmap your team will act on. Technical due diligence answers a deal-event question for a third party, such as an investor or acquirer, and its deliverable is a risk assessment that informs a decision to proceed, adjust terms, or walk. The rubrics overlap, but the audience, timeline, and purpose differ, so they are scoped as separate engagements.

What does a code audit actually deliver?

Two things. First, a severity-rated findings register where every issue is rated critical, high, medium, or low and carries a location, an evidence or reproduction trail, an impact statement, and a recommended fix. Second, a remediation roadmap that sequences the work by severity, blast radius, and effort, separating must-fix-now security and data-integrity items from structural debt that is paid down over scheduled iterations.

When do we actually need a code audit?

Most audits start from inheriting a codebase you cannot vouch for, a fast or outsourced build that was never independently reviewed, an upcoming major release or scaling event that raises the stakes, a reliability or security incident that exposed a soft spot, or a new engineering owner who needs a trustworthy map before committing the team. The common thread is that your exposure to a system is higher than your confidence in it.

What access do you need to run an audit?

Less than you might expect. A first audit runs on a read-only repository snapshot or export, the dependency manifest and lockfile, the build and test configuration, and architecture or data-flow notes. It does not require admin logins, production secrets, signing keys, or live customer records. If a finding needs a runtime check against a protected environment, that happens later under an agreed access scope with a named owner and a rollback rule.

Do you only deliver a report, or do you fix the issues?

Both, and that is the difference. You get the severity-rated findings and remediation roadmap regardless. Where Closeaim differs from a report-only audit is that the engineers who scored your code scope and ship the high-severity fixes under the same ownership and the same quality and release gates we hold our own work to, so findings become merged, verified changes instead of an aging backlog.

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