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What does technology due diligence cover?
Six areas, examined in the time a transaction allows and reported in the form a board, investment committee or lender can act on: security posture, including controls, incidents, assessments and insurance; infrastructure resilience, continuity and the age and support status of what runs the business; data and privacy obligations, breaches and customer commitments; AI use, governance and vendor dependencies; key-person, vendor and licensing dependencies; and technical debt, integration risk and remediation cost. Findings are graded by deal impact, the evidence received and withheld is logged, and the report states what should be reflected in price, warranties and conditions and what the first hundred days after closing require.
In more detail
The reasoning.
Buy-side diligence tells the acquirer what it is buying. Sell-side readiness prepares a company four to eight weeks before a process so that diligence confirms rather than discovers, with a buyer’s-eye assessment, an evidence room and a disclosure approach for what cannot be fixed in time.
Related work includes cyber insurance evidence preparation, post-acquisition control integration in the first hundred days, and the diligence report written for boards and lenders.
See the technology due diligence service, buy-side diligence, sell-side readiness review and the glossary entry for technology due diligence.
By David Selakovic · Published 2026-10-16 · Revised 2026-10-16 · Reviewed every 90 days