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Technology & Engineering Due Diligence

Independent technical audits for investment, financing, and strategic decision-making. Engagements include engineering due diligence, technical audit services, and related work — all under NDA.

  • engineering due diligence
  • technical audit services
  • investment due diligence
  • technology audit
  • production capacity audit
  • software due diligence
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Overview

About Our Technology And Engineering Due Diligence

Independent technical audits for investment, financing, and strategic decision-making — production capacity, equipment performance, software / firmware, architecture, scalability, and technology readiness. Audit-grade reports under NDA.

Engagements are scoped to a fixed deliverable list before kickoff and run under a written NDA. Daily lab notes and weekly written status keep the work auditable from your side at every step.

Audit-grade evidence

Independent technical assessment — production capacity, software, firmware, scalability.

Audit Lead — anonymized portrait

Audit Lead

Anonymized pre-NDA

When you call us

When You Need Technology And Engineering Due Diligence

Patterns we see across engagements. Each can stand alone or combine with adjacent capabilities.

  • Investor due diligence on industrial and hardware projects

    Independent verification of production capacity calculations, equipment performance parameters, and process engineering assumptions used in the project's financial model and business plan.

  • Bank credit due diligence on technology-driven financing

    Technical audit of the engineering and production assumptions behind a financing decision — the questions a credit committee needs answered before issuance.

  • VC and PE due diligence on technology positions

    Verification of software and firmware capabilities, application architecture, development roadmaps, scalability, and technological readiness levels for venture and growth-equity investments.

  • Strategic partner audits for M&A and integration

    Independent assessment of an acquisition or integration target's technology stack, production capability, and engineering organization — findings delivered to the strategic partner under NDA.

  • Operational forecast validation

    Verification of the engineering assumptions in operational forecasts — equipment utilization, production cycles, energy use, and the engineering basis for revenue projections.

  • Technology readiness assessment for grant or program funding

    Independent TRL-style assessment of a technology's readiness for production or commercial deployment, used in grant applications and government-program funding reviews.

Methodology

Our Technology And Engineering Due Diligence Process

Vertical phasing — each step's deliverables agreed before kickoff, and not closed until you sign off.

  1. 01

    Phase 01

    Engagement and scope

    NDA execution, scope letter, and access agreement. The audit's deliverable, evidence requirements, and findings format are agreed in writing before access is granted.

  2. 02

    Phase 02

    Document and artifact review

    Technical documentation analysis — engineering calculations, drawings, schematics, source code, build artifacts, test data, and supplier records as relevant to the audit scope.

  3. 03

    Phase 03

    Reverse engineering and verification

    Where source-of-truth verification is needed, the audit may include reverse engineering, binary assessment, prototype inspection, and re-derivation of key engineering calculations.

  4. 04

    Phase 04

    Production and process audit

    Production workflow evaluation, equipment performance measurement (where feasible), and verification of the production capacity claims in the financial model.

  5. 05

    Phase 05

    Findings consolidation

    Structured findings against the original financial-model assumptions — what is verified, what is partially supported, what is not supported, and what should be flagged to the capital committee.

  6. 06

    Phase 06

    Audit-grade report

    Structured report under NDA — executive summary for non-technical stakeholders, detailed findings for technical reviewers, and an evidence appendix referencing every claim back to the underlying artifact.

Tooling

Technology And Engineering Due Diligence Tools and Technologies

Named tools, in production. We don't list anything we don't actually use.

  • Tool

    Reverse engineering toolchain (Ghidra / IDA / radare2)

    Production use — versioned per-engagement and pinned in our build.

  • Tool

    Source code static analysis

    Production use — versioned per-engagement and pinned in our build.

  • Tool

    Production capacity modeling tools

    Production use — versioned per-engagement and pinned in our build.

  • Tool

    Engineering calculation verification (structural / thermal / process)

    Production use — versioned per-engagement and pinned in our build.

  • Tool

    Bill-of-materials reconciliation

    Production use — versioned per-engagement and pinned in our build.

  • Tool

    Engineering documentation analysis

    Production use — versioned per-engagement and pinned in our build.

  • Tool

    Prototype inspection and bench testing

    Production use — versioned per-engagement and pinned in our build.

  • Tool

    Audit-grade report templates

    Production use — versioned per-engagement and pinned in our build.

audit@dd ~ project

$ verify capacity --plan operational --target 15M/yr

Capacity verified · constraints documented · 3 findings flagged

$ report --format audit --redact --bind nda

Audit report · 42 pages · evidence appendix · delivered under NDA

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Deliverables

What You Receive from Our Technology And Engineering Due Diligence

Artifacts handed over at close-out. Each is reproducible and self-contained.

  • Structured audit-grade report under NDA
  • Executive summary for capital-committee review
  • Detailed technical findings with evidence references
  • Production capacity validation memo
  • Software / firmware capability assessment
  • Application architecture and scalability review
  • Development roadmap and TRL assessment
  • Risk register and mitigation guidance

Sample deliverable

technology-engineering-due-diligence · final report

rev.04 · pdf

Engagement summary

Findings

Our practice

Independent technical assessment — under NDA, for capital decisions.

Used by investors, banks, VCs, PE firms, and strategic partners. We verify production capacity calculations, equipment performance, process engineering assumptions, software / firmware capabilities, application architecture, development roadmaps, scalability, and technology readiness levels — and deliver findings as structured audit-grade reports.

Independent audit findings handed over to an investor team in a structured review meeting

Audit-grade reporting

Independent verification of engineering, production, software, and roadmap assumptions used in financing decisions.

Anonymized senior engineer — Audit Lead

Audit Lead

Anonymized pre-NDA

Anonymized senior engineer — Senior Reverse Engineer

Senior Reverse Engineer

Anonymized pre-NDA

Anonymized senior engineer — Process Engineer

Process Engineer

Anonymized pre-NDA

Anonymized senior engineer — Software Audit Lead

Software Audit Lead

Anonymized pre-NDA

Independent technical assessment — the engineering questions a financial model needs answered before you sign the term sheet.

Audit Lead, Reverse Lab

Questions

Technology And Engineering Due Diligence FAQ

Pulled from real client conversations. If yours isn't here, ask directly.

  • Investors, banks, venture funds, private equity firms, and strategic partners — when evaluating financing, credit issuance, acquisitions, or participation in technology-driven and industrial projects. The deliverable is the technical evidence layer underneath a financial decision.

  • Production capacity calculations, equipment performance parameters, process engineering assumptions, software and firmware capabilities, application architecture, development roadmaps, scalability claims, and technology readiness levels. Each claim in the audit's scope is verified against the underlying engineering artifact, not against the project's own marketing material.

  • Everything operates under mutual NDA. Source code, schematics, calculations, and proprietary documentation are reviewed in our access environment under the access agreement. Findings reference artifacts; the underlying artifacts are not redistributed.

  • When source-of-truth verification requires it, yes. The audit may include reverse engineering, technical documentation analysis, source code and binary assessment, production workflow evaluation, prototype inspection, and re-derivation of engineering calculations. Reverse engineering is a means to verify the audit's claims — not the deliverable in itself.

  • Yes. We accept due-diligence engagements only when we have no engineering or commercial position in the project being audited. The audit's value depends on independence; we are explicit about it in writing.

  • A structured audit-grade report under NDA. Executive summary for non-technical stakeholders, detailed findings for technical reviewers, and an evidence appendix referencing every claim back to the underlying artifact. The format is built for credit and investment committees, not for marketing reuse.

  • Pricing depends on the audit's scope, the artifact volume, and the depth of verification required. Most audits run between four and twelve weeks. Engagements start with a paid scoping phase that produces the access agreement and a fixed engagement letter.

Selected work

Engagements where this capability carried significant scope.

Case studies for this service available under NDA

Most of our work in this area is covered by mutual NDA. Request anonymized references during your inquiry — we share them with prospective clients after NDA execution.

Engage

Ready to discuss your technology and engineering due diligence project?

All inquiries reviewed under NDA. We respond within two business days with a scoped engagement plan and fixed deliverables list.

Senior engineers · Anonymized pre-NDA