M&A Technical Due Diligence | Buy-Side Technical Due Diligence

Practitioner-led technical due diligence from a software engineering company with 20 years of production delivery across 20+ industries. We assess technology from real engineering experience, not from a checklist alone.
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[ why us/ ]

The "Big Four" Alternative for Technical Due Diligence

A comprehensive independent technical assessment doesn’t require a large consulting team or the highest price tag. Often, a small team of senior engineers can move faster, go just as deep, and adapt the assessment to your deal thesis.

Practitioner-led diligence
We have shipped code in .NET, PHP, legacy VB6, and modern cloud stacks. That lets us judge architecture, code quality, and engineering maturity from real delivery experience, not from a checklist alone.
Negotiation ammunition
Findings you can take into the room. Knowing that modernizing a legacy module will cost roughly $100K and six months gives you the leverage to move on price or on deal structure with confidence.
Aligned to your deal thesis
Shutting down two of three acquired services? We focus on the one asset that carries the value. We adapt to your post-close plan, whether you are scaling, integrating, modernizing, or operating the asset.
We Serve
The teams that need an independent technical view before committing capital.
  • Strategic buyers
  • Private equity buyers
  • Corporate M&A & Corp Dev
  • Independent sponsors and search funds

Preparing for a sale, a raise, or a launch? We also run sell-side technical due diligence, fundraising preparation, and pre-launch audits.

[ how we can help/ ]

The Impact of an M&A Tech Audit
Operating-cost and cloud-spend analysis gives you the numbers you need to build a realistic post-close budget.
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Risk mitigation

Surface material risks across architecture, code, infrastructure, security, and engineering operations before they become your problem.
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Cost visibility

Quantify technical debt, infrastructure costs, and the post-close investment needed to maintain, modernize, or scale the technology.
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Compliance & security

Assess the target against the security, privacy, and compliance requirements relevant to the deal.
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Integration readiness

Understand how well the technology can integrate with your systems, data, infrastructure, and workflows.

What We Assess

The scope is tailored to your deal, with emphasis on the technology risks, costs, and capabilities that could affect the investment.
Product
Product & Platform
Technology Architecture
Technology Stack
Code Quality & Maintainability
Technical Debt
Legacy Dependencies
APIs & Integration Readiness
Portability & Consolidation Potential
AI & Automation
Infrastructure
Cloud Infrastructure
Performance
Scalability
Reliability
Disaster Recovery
Cybersecurity
Privacy & Compliance Posture
Data Architecture & Pipelines
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Engineering
DevOps & Release Engineering
Testing & Quality Engineering
Engineering Organization
Delivery Effectiveness
Key-Person Dependencies
Third-Party Technology Dependencies
Open-Source & Licensing Risks
Vendor & Ecosystem Integrations
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Strategy
Technology Spend & Operating Costs
Remediation Sizing
Technology Roadmap
Execution Capacity
Technical Differentiation
Peer Benchmarking
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[ how we did it/ ]

Our Technical Due Diligence Process

Every company has its own way of doing things. Our process is flexible enough to fit your workflow.

01. Free consultation (30–60 min)

We discuss your deal thesis, key questions, timeline, and define the right scope.

02. Contract and NDA (1–2 days)

Establish agreements to protect data confidentiality.

03. Data room & technical access

Secure access to the systems, repositories, and documentation we need.

04. Comprehensive audit (2–6 weeks)

Full evaluation of systems and software, with regular check-ins and adjustments if needed.

05. Technical due diligence report

A scored assessment of infrastructure and applications, plus prioritized, budgeted recommendations.

06. Post-acquisition support (if needed)

We stay on to help align the acquired technology with your environment.

Pricing Overview

Pricing depends on the scope, complexity, and timeline of the assessment, including whether the engagement requires a US-based domain expert.

Typical Budget:

$5,000 to $30,000

Larger engagements (usually running more than four weeks):

$30,000to $60,000

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How Deep We Can Go Depends on Access

Direct read-only access

Recommended when possible. We review source code and history, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and cost data. This allows us to assess implemented architecture, code quality, technical debt, performance, scalability, dependencies, delivery practices, and other areas directly.

Restricted technical review

When code or systems cannot leave your environment, we can work through guided walkthroughs, agreed tools, company-generated analysis, dashboards, and technical evidence.

Documentation & interviews

Useful when direct access is impossible. We can assess intended architecture, roadmap, organization, dependencies, and control design, but areas that cannot be independently verified are clearly identified as such.

Clients Say

MEV and I closed out the engagement today—very successful.
Given their background in custom software development, they are perhaps an unusual partner for IT DD, but I actually believe this was their strength. Their focus on custom means they are used to unstructured problems where they need to come up with the method AND the solution, which is a great fit for evaluating small businesses because SMB rarely have the "standard / industry-best-practice" equipment and tools that you will find in Corporate America. Folks who work on custom also need to be versed in a variety of technologies, not just the latest-and-greatest, which was helpful for my target, which is really old-school and has old tech.

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Andrew

Andrew

Manufacturing Business Buyer

The MEV team are technology experts, everyone from the primary developer to the senior engineer and project manager. When we had to make tough technical decisions, they always presented options to my team and explained the implications. I always felt they had our best interests in mind. They were very thorough, very complete, and easy to work with. And they did an amazing job of handing off the project to my team.

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Tim Thornburg

Tim Thornburg

AVP Database and Solutions Development at Pursuant

It's been a very positive experience working with the MEV team; MEV is very experienced, methodical, process driven and professional in all that they do! MEV team members provide excellent feature/project/service feedback and suggestions along with proven processes to ensure resource efficiency and high quality deliverables. Our MEV project team is a valued extension of the our core team. We highly recommend MEV to other companies looking to either expand or wholly outsource their software development/engineering needs.

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Russell Aleksey

Russell Aleksey

Founder, CEO at OkLet'sPlay

Frequently Asked Questions

FAQ

Both work. We can run a document-led review from your data room, or take read-only access to systems and repositories for a deeper read. We scope the access model with you upfront and price accordingly.

Yes. If you are shutting down parts of the target, or only care about one asset, we focus there. Scaling, integrating, modernizing, or operating, we shape the audit around what you plan to do after close.

We are practitioners. Our team ships production software, so we assess a target from real delivery experience rather than a checklist, in small senior teams, without the bloated deck.

Yes. If you are preparing a company for sale, we run sell-side technical due diligence so you can fix issues before buyers find them.

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