Investors and acquirers
Understand product and technology quality, scalability, security, team dependency, technical debt, risk, and value-creation requirements.
Independent assessment of product, code, architecture, security, team, operations, scalability, and technical risk
Technical due diligence
Rokad provides independent technical due diligence for investments, acquisitions, partnerships, enterprise procurement, and internal decision-making.
Designed for / 01
A focused delivery model for the organisations that need it.
Technical due diligence tests whether the product, technology, team, operations, security, claims, and roadmap support the proposed transaction or commitment. Rokad combines document review, interviews, code and architecture assessment, production evidence, risk analysis, and an actionable post-decision plan.
Companies evaluating strategic technology partners
Validate vendor, platform, product, integration, security, operating, and commercial claims before dependency.
Founders preparing for diligence
Identify evidence gaps, technical risks, ownership, security, architecture, operations, and roadmap questions before external review.
Challenges / 02
The problems this service is built to solve.
Demonstration quality masks operating reality
Product interfaces look credible while code, data, infrastructure, security, deployment, incidents, and support remain weak.
Technical debt is described without business impact
Reviewers cannot distinguish routine maintenance from material risk to revenue, scale, security, integration, or delivery.
The organisation depends on undocumented individuals
Architecture, production, vendors, credentials, releases, incidents, and roadmap knowledge are concentrated in founders or key engineers.
Capabilities / 03
What Rokad can deliver.
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Product, customer, roadmap, claims, contracts, ownership, and dependency review
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Codebase, architecture, data, APIs, integrations, cloud, and infrastructure assessment
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Security, privacy, access, secrets, vulnerabilities, incidents, backup, and recovery review
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Scalability, performance, reliability, observability, deployment, and operations assessment
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Engineering team, roles, capability, bus factor, process, quality, and delivery review
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Open source, third-party, licence, vendor, platform, and intellectual-property dependency review
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Risk classification, transaction implications, remediation, integration, and value-creation roadmap
Solution components / 04
The system behind the visible product.
Claims and product evidence
Customers, functionality, roadmap, usage, architecture, performance, scale, differentiation, and operating evidence.
Technical asset review
Code, data, systems, infrastructure, integrations, dependencies, documentation, tests, deployments, and ownership.
Organisation and operation
Team, process, vendors, incidents, security, support, service, continuity, cost, governance, and delivery capacity.
Decision and post-close plan
Material risks, conditions, valuation considerations, immediate actions, integration, investment, and value creation.
Use cases / 05
Where this capability creates practical leverage.
Investment diligence
Assess whether product and technology claims, team, roadmap, security, and scale support the investment thesis.
Acquisition diligence
Evaluate technical assets, liabilities, integration, continuity, cost, team, vendors, and post-close priorities.
Enterprise vendor diligence
Review product architecture, security, data, operations, support, resilience, dependencies, and roadmap before adoption.
Diligence readiness
Help a company organise evidence, identify gaps, remediate material risk, and prepare clear technical explanations.
Architecture and integration / 06
Designed to fit the wider technology environment.
Materiality over exhaustive criticism
Focus on issues that affect transaction thesis, continuity, customers, security, scale, integration, cost, and execution.
Verify through multiple evidence types
Compare interviews and documents with source, systems, production telemetry, incidents, customers, dependencies, and operating records.
Separate present risk from future investment
Distinguish immediate liabilities, normal technical debt, growth requirements, integration work, and optional value-creation opportunities.
Quality and control / 07
Production requirements are part of the build.
Evidence-led
Recommendations distinguish verified facts, assumptions, uncertainty, trade-offs, and evidence gaps.
Decision-oriented
Analysis is structured around choices, consequences, priorities, ownership, timing, and practical next actions.
Independent and executable
Advice is not tied to unnecessary resale and is translated into architecture, workstreams, controls, and delivery plans.
Delivery / 08
A controlled path from requirement to operation.
Discover
Clarify the objective, users, systems, constraints, dependencies, risks, and measurable acceptance criteria.
Architect
Define the target design, interfaces, controls, migration or delivery sequence, and operating model.
Deliver and validate
Implement in controlled increments with testing, review, documentation, observability, and stakeholder validation.
Operate and improve
Establish ownership, service controls, measurement, support, and a prioritised improvement backlog.
Typical deliverables
Diligence scope, information request, interviews, and evidence plan
Product, code, architecture, data, infrastructure, security, and operations assessment
Team, process, vendor, dependency, licence, ownership, and continuity review
Material risk register with evidence, impact, likelihood, and remediation
Transaction, integration, investment, and value-creation implications
Executive report, technical appendix, briefing, and post-decision roadmap
Engagement models / 09
Use the delivery structure that matches the work.
Assessment and roadmap
A bounded evidence review, target direction, prioritised risks, and executable next-stage plan.
Fixed-scope delivery
A defined implementation, migration, prototype, procurement, or transformation outcome with acceptance criteria.
Embedded specialists
Specialists working alongside internal product, engineering, data, operations, security, or procurement teams.
Managed lifecycle
Ongoing ownership, maintenance, monitoring, supplier coordination, reliability, security, and improvement.
Related capabilities / 10
Continue through the wider product and technology system.
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Software architecture consulting
Perform deeper architecture assessment and target-state design.
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Technology roadmap
Translate findings into sequenced post-decision initiatives.
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Fractional CTO
Provide ongoing leadership through remediation, integration, and value creation.
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Software development
Custom applications, platforms, integrations, APIs, and software modernisation.
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Cloud and DevOps
Cloud architecture, platforms, CI/CD, Kubernetes, security, reliability, and migration.
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Managed technology services
Application, cloud, security, reliability, maintenance, and continuous engineering operations.
FAQ
Technical due diligence
Scope, ownership, assumptions, delivery, security, and long-term operation are clarified before work begins.
01Can technical due diligence be completed confidentially?
Can technical due diligence be completed confidentially?
Yes. Access, data handling, confidentiality, interview, repository, environment, reporting, and retention arrangements are defined before work begins.
02Do you need full source-code access?
Do you need full source-code access?
Full access provides stronger evidence, but scope can be adapted to transaction stage and available information. Any limitations are stated clearly in conclusions.
03Will the report provide a pass or fail?
Will the report provide a pass or fail?
We provide evidence, material risks, strengths, uncertainties, implications, and recommended actions so decision-makers can evaluate them against the transaction thesis and terms.
04Can Rokad support post-acquisition execution?
Can Rokad support post-acquisition execution?
Yes. We can lead immediate risk closure, architecture, integration, roadmap, team, vendor, security, modernisation, and managed operations workstreams.
Technology consulting and research
Make the technology risk visible before the transaction makes it yours.
Rokad can independently assess the product, technical assets, organisation, operations, and post-decision implications.
Contact / 05
Bring us the difficult technology problem.
Tell us what you need to build, improve, procure, deploy, or operate. We will respond with a practical next step.