Technical Due Diligence:
An Honest Verdict Before You Commit
For investors writing a check, founders acquiring a product, and pre-fundraise founders who want to find the problems before their investors do. Dubai-based, fixed price, written report delivered.
Book a Scoping CallWho This Is For
Four situations where an independent technical review changes the outcome.
You've agreed on valuation in principle. Before the wire, you want an independent technical sanity check — someone who can read the code, architecture, and team setup and tell you what you're actually buying.
You're buying a software product or forming a deep technical partnership. You can't evaluate what you're getting into. You need a clear answer: is this well-built, and what will it cost to maintain or improve?
Your Series A investors will run their own TDD. You want to find the problems first, fix them, and walk into their review with confidence — not be blindsided by findings you could have addressed in advance.
You're investing directly without a VC's technical team. You know the business. You don't have an in-house CTO to evaluate the engineering. You need someone you can trust to give you a straight answer.
No conflict of interest. I have no development team to feed. I don't win remediation work. My job is to tell you the truth about what you're looking at — not to create follow-on work for myself.
What I Look At
Eight areas reviewed in every engagement. Findings are translated into financial and operational impact — not left as abstract technical observations.
Maintainability, test coverage, documentation, tech debt load, and how much it will cost to extend.
Scalability of the design, single points of failure, and whether the system can grow without a full rewrite.
OWASP vulnerabilities, authentication, encryption, access control, and UAE PDPL compliance.
Hosting setup, CI/CD pipelines, deployment process, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
Key-person risk, bus factor, team capacity, and the realistic cost to hire replacements.
Open-source license compliance, contractor IP assignments, code ownership clarity.
Version control discipline, code review culture, documentation habits, deployment frequency.
Remediation cost estimates translated into real numbers: not 'there's debt' but 'fixing this will cost approximately $X.'
What You Receive
A written report. Not a call. Not a slide deck. A document you can share with co-investors, lawyers, or your board.
5–7 pages
For urgent deal timelines (3–5 business days)
15–20 pages
For acquisitions and Series A+ investors (7–10 business days)
Both reports are written for non-technical readers. Every finding is translated into business and financial terms. No jargon without explanation.
How It Works
From first contact to delivered report — here's the process.
Scoping call (30 minutes)
I understand the deal context — what you're evaluating, the deal timeline, what access you can provide, and which report type fits the situation.
NDA and access
We sign an NDA before any material is shared. I'll need read access to the codebase, infrastructure documentation, and any relevant technical documentation. No write access needed.
Review (3–10 business days)
I go through the code, architecture, infrastructure, and documentation systematically. Red Flag Reports take 3–5 business days. Full TDD reports take 7–10.
Report delivery and walkthrough
You receive the report in PDF and editable format. Full TDD includes an optional 1-hour walkthrough call to walk through findings, answer questions, and explain anything unclear.
Why an Independent Engineer, Not an Agency
What makes this review structurally different from what most TDD providers offer.
Builder, not an auditor
I've built 30+ products across fintech, CRM, marketplaces, and SaaS — including products I shipped, products I killed, and one (FutureAngel) where I was inside a team whose scope exceeded their bandwidth. I recognize patterns from having been in the code, not just reading checklists about it.
No conflict of interest
I have no development agency, no team to feed, and no interest in winning your remediation work. The review is structured to give you an honest verdict — not to create follow-on work. That independence is structural, not just claimed.
Dubai-based, UAE market context
UAE PDPL compliance, DIFC entity structures, local hosting regulations, and the dynamics of UAE-based startup ecosystems — I know these from building here, not researching them. For cross-border deals, I understand the offshore dev dynamics that affect most UAE startups.
Pricing
(Fixed Price, Delivered to Deadline)
Fast, high-level, for urgent deal timelines
Full audit for acquisitions and Series A+ investors
Complex or large codebases (multiple repositories, microservices, legacy systems) may require a custom quote. All engagements require an NDA before code access.
Frequently Asked Questions
Red Flag Reports take 3–5 business days. Full TDD reports take 7–10 business days. Both timelines are firm commitments, not estimates — deal timelines are real and I build the review around them.
Read access to the codebase (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or equivalent), infrastructure documentation (architecture diagrams, hosting setup), and any relevant technical documentation. No write access is required at any point.
Yes, always. An NDA is signed before any material is shared. Confidentiality is standard, not optional.
PDF and editable format (Word or Google Docs), so you can share it with co-investors, lawyers, or your board. Full TDD reports include an optional walkthrough call for any questions after delivery.
Both. I look at what's working as well as what's not. The report includes strengths alongside risks — a strong architecture or good test coverage matters as much as the red flags. The goal is an accurate picture, not a list of complaints.
Need a verdict before the deal closes?
Tell me about the deal context — what you're evaluating, the timeline, and what access you can provide. I'll confirm which report type fits and give you a turnaround commitment.
Also available: Fractional CTO for ongoing technical leadership after the investment closes, and Internal Tools if the acquired product needs custom operational software built on top.