Diligence the technology before you wire the cheque.
Fixed-price technical due diligence for funds and syndicates without an in-house technical team. Two days, one memo, decision-ready — so you don't have to overpay a big diligence shop to understand the technology behind the pitch. We verify the "AI-powered" claims, size the tech debt honestly, and flag the risk that becomes your problem after the round closes.
Who this is for
Most sub-$50M funds and syndicates have no technical partner on the team. So when a deal hinges on the engineering — a real model pipeline or a thin wrapper, a stack that scales or one that buckles at the growth in the deck — you're betting on a pitch you can't independently check. The big diligence shops cost $50k and take weeks. By then the round has closed. We built the TDD Sprint for exactly this gap: senior, fast, fixed-price — so understanding the technology behind a deal doesn't mean overpaying for it.
What the memo covers
- 01 · AI claims verification. Is it a real model pipeline or a thin wrapper on someone else's API? We build these systems — RAG architectures, edge AI, on-device speech recognition — in production. We read the pipeline, not the marketing.
- 02 · Architecture & scalability review. Will the stack survive the growth in the deck? Assessed by someone who has re-architected platforms serving 20,000+ daily users.
- 03 · Tech debt, honestly sized. What it will cost — in money and months — to fix what's been deferred. No drama, no sugar-coating.
- 04 · Key-person & security risk. Bus-factor on the founding CTO, ownership of critical code, and the security red flags that become your problem after the wire.
- 05 · Remediation roadmap. Not just what's wrong — what to do about it, in what order. If you invest, the findings become a post-investment workplan.
Brief us by Thursday. Memo by Monday.
We run from the UK — five hours ahead of New York. Your diligence happens overnight and over the weekend, while the deal sleeps.
- Day 0 · 15 min — Intro call, NDA signed, data-room access
- Days 1–2 — Codebase, architecture and team review
- Delivery — Written memo, forwardable to LPs and co-investors, plus a 30-minute debrief call
Our conflict rule, stated plainly
We never pitch our services to a company we've diligenced — unless you introduce us post-investment. The memo is for you, and our only incentive is to be right.
On every deal, not just this one
Funds that want us on call take the Diligence Partner retainer: a monthly arrangement that secures a guaranteed 48-hour response slot and priority booking over spot clients. Retained funds get 10% off every sprint — our standard ongoing-engagement discount.
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Who does the work
Every sprint is led personally by Marco Rapaccini, Founder & Lead Technologist — one senior point of contact, start to finish. 10+ years shipping production software across FinTech, aerospace, healthcare and IoT, including Symphony messaging integrations and KYC/AML compliance workflows. 4 patents filed. Platform work selected by the European Space Agency. An active founder with skin in the game — so we advise from experience, not theory. As Director of Technology at Irish Sea Rim, he applies the same scrutiny — deep on the technical detail, with an eye on the business and investment case around it — to cross-border growth initiatives.
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Direct conversations, transparent rates, no discovery-call theatre.