SECTORS

Different IT companies raise different questions in due diligence.

This is what we look at first. The exact scope of a review depends on the deal.

Outsourcing and service companies

How many clients the revenue depends on, how AI is changing demand for developer hours, whether the team stays after the sale.

Whether recurring payments are growing, how many clients leave each year, what it costs to win a new one.

Own data or a layer on top of someone else’s model, the cost of serving a client, rights to training data.

Regulator licences, protection of client data, reliability of the payment infrastructure.

Information security requirements, dependence on government contracts, who owns the code after the contract.

Vendor agreements, partner statuses, margin on licence resale.