Technical Due Diligence with Financial Implications
TDD Report (50+ pages), Slides Deck, Excel Workbook, Remediation Plan, Key-person Identification, Knowledge Transfer Plan, Interview Questionnaire and many more...
Deep-Code Forensic Capabilities
Mathematical rigor applied to software architectures. No checklists. No hand-waving.
Static Taint Graph Analysis
Algorithmic tracing of unvalidated user inputs from ingress endpoints directly to database sinks and downstream payment rails.
Attack-Surface Decomposition
Empirical boundary mapping of public APIs, legacy internal microservices, and misconfigured cloud IAM permissions.
Git Author Entropy & Bus Factor
Topological code-churn analysis calculating true team resilience, institutional knowledge concentration, and flight risk.
GPL & Third-Party IP Contamination
Deep binary and source-level AST inspection to detect restrictive copyleft licenses embedded in proprietary core intellectual property.
Cloud Infrastructure Run-Rate Audit
Dissecting cloud telemetry to isolate dormant GPU clusters, over-provisioned databases, and gross-margin suppression.
100-Day Engineering Value Plan
Translating technical debt remediation into a prioritized, budgeted Gantt chart aligned with sponsor investment horizons.
Elasticsearch: Enterprise Search Platform — Buy-Side Technical Advisory
Identified critical Elastic Licence 2.0 / SSPL restriction creating SaaS-hosting exposure for the acquirer's intended product use, compounded by 6,207 open issues concentrated in the cluster coordination and C++ JNI bridge — a native memory-safety surface not covered by Java's managed runtime. Findings drove licence audit covenants and targeted engineering debt provisions into the deal economics.
The Financial Translation Framework
We bridge the gap between engineering repositories and investment committee underwriting models.
Vulnerability & Taint Paths
Critical regulatory non-compliance, breach liability, customer churn risk.
EBITDA Multiple Haircut & $14.2M Specific Escrow Carve-Out
Architecture & Monolithic Debt
Systemic outage at 2.5x volume surge; inability to scale into new geographies.
$8.6M Refactoring CapEx Model factored into cash-flow underwriting
Bus Factor & Key-Person Risk
Catastrophic intellectual property stall upon closing; post-acquisition flight risk.
$3.5M Key-Person Retention Pool tied to 24-month earn-out gates
Carve-Out & Licensing Debt
Forced open-sourcing of commercial algorithms or enterprise infringement injunction.
Bilateral Seller Indemnity Cap revision + $4.8M clean-room reimplementation
Validate Your Investment Thesis Before Exclusivity Lapses
Whether facing a 48-hour LOI sprint or underwriting a $300M carve-out, retain MTD Services to uncover technical debt that matters to your balance sheet.