What is the difference between technical due diligence and a fractional CTO?

Technical due diligence is a bounded, independent review tied to a single deal event - a raise, acquisition, or investment - with an evidence standard and a deliverable built for signing. A fractional CTO is a recurring advisory relationship that steers a team over quarters. Diligence answers what you are buying; fractional advisory helps you run it afterward.

Do you need production access or live credentials to run the review?

No. We work from scoped, read-only repository access and configuration under an NDA, and we never ask for production credentials. A diligence review does not require the live keys, and a target that offers them during diligence is itself a security-posture finding we would note.

Which checklist item is most often underpriced in a deal?

Key-person and bus-factor risk. When critical architecture and operational knowledge lives in only one or two people with thin documentation and weak retention terms, that knowledge can walk out the door right after close. We rate the bus factor per critical component and translate it into retention, knowledge-transfer, and documentation terms.

What does the deliverable actually look like?

A severity-rated issue log - high, medium, and low findings, each with the evidence behind it - and a remediation roadmap a board can read in a sitting. Findings are translated into deal terms: what blocks the deal, what to price into the purchase agreement, and what becomes a first-100-days workstream. It is deliberately not a 200-page engineering dump.

How is sensitive information protected during diligence?

Access is scoped and bound by an NDA, limited to the components in scope and to read-only inspection. We protect sensitive detail under that scoped access, share findings only with the parties the engagement names, never request production credentials, and keep client-identifying detail and private specifics out of any public reference to the work.

Loading Closeaim experience

Closeaim Software Solutions

Article

Technical Due Diligence Checklist Acquirers Investors avec un chemin de livraison cadré et sûr.

Consultez Technical Due Diligence Checklist Acquirers Investors, puis choisissez la prochaine étape Closeaim: discovery, preuve contrôlée, build production ou handoff sécurisé.

Reserver Solutions