What does technical due diligence cover?

A LucidCircus technical due diligence engagement assesses four areas: code quality and maintainability, scalability and architecture, security and compliance exposure, and team capability and process maturity. You receive a plain-language report with findings ranked by risk and estimated remediation cost.

When in the deal process should technical due diligence happen?

Ideally after the LOI, alongside financial and legal diligence — early enough that findings can shape price and terms, late enough that the target will open the codebase. For sell-side (exit readiness) work, 6–12 months before going to market.

How long does a technical due diligence engagement take?

Most assessments run two to four weeks depending on codebase size and access. We scope it precisely in an initial call.

Do you only assess, or can you also fix what you find?

Both. Assessment and execution are deliberately under one roof: the same senior team that identifies issues can remediate them post-close — integration, consolidation, re-architecture, or ongoing development.

Who performs the assessment?

Senior engineers from our core team — people who have built, scaled, and rescued production systems since 1998. No junior analysts, no checklist outsourcing.

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When technology hides in the shadows, risk grows. We bring clarity to the unknown — so your investments are never blind bets.

Every deal has a technology story the pitch deck doesn't tell. The codebase that can't scale past the next funding round. The platform held together by one irreplaceable engineer. The security gap nobody has looked for. The "proprietary technology" that's mostly off-the-shelf parts.

We've spent 25+ years building and rescuing software. A LucidCircus technical assessment tells you, in plain language, what you're actually buying, what it will cost to fix, and whether the team can take it where the deal model says it needs to go.

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Where Technical Expertise Meets Investment Strategy

We work with venture capital, private equity, and angel investors across the full investment lifecycle — assessing a target’s codebase before the deal closes, then strengthening the platform after it. The same senior engineers do both.

Pre-Investment — Technical Due Diligence

For VC, PE, and angel investors evaluating a deal.

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Code quality & maintainability

Is the codebase an asset or a liability? Can new engineers work in it, or does everything route through one person?

Scalability &
performance

Will the architecture support the growth the deal model assumes, or is a rebuild hiding in year two?

Security & compliance gaps

What exposure exists today, and what will it cost to close?

Team & process assessment

Can this team execute the roadmap? What happens if the CTO leaves?

You get a clear, jargon-free report ranked by risk and remediation cost — built for investment committees, not engineers.

Post-Acquisition — Integration & Value Creation

For PE firms and platform companies after the deal closes.

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Tech stack
consolidation

Roll-ups inherit one platform per acquisition. We map redundancy and design the unified target architecture.

End-to-end
migration

We manage migrations across entities and systems. In one case, we unified platforms across three acquisitions and reduced infrastructure costs by 35%.

Post-acquisition
integration

Connecting the systems, data, and teams of newly acquired companies so the value-creation plan isn't waiting on IT.

Exit
readiness

Sell-side technical preparation: clean up the findings a buyer's DD team would flag, before they flag them.

Ongoing — Portfolio Company Support

Hands-on engineering for the companies you've backed.

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Tailored development
support

Senior engineering capacity that plugs into the existing team.

MVP development &
scaling

From validated idea to production product, built to survive growth.

System architecture
overhaul

When the platform that got them here can't get them there.

Fractional CTO

Senior technical leadership for portfolio companies between technical leaders, or that never had one.

What your portfolio companies will experience

Investors hire us for clarity. Founders keep us for execution — our client relationships routinely run a decade or longer, often ending only at acquisition.

Here's what the companies we work with say:

Highly knowledgeable and efficient, delivering precise work, clear guidance, and reliable results every time.

Ezra and LucidCircus combine top-tier technical expertise with true partnership, consistently delivering impactful results.

LucidCircus guided me from idea to scalable SaaS, saving time and money while keeping things simple.

Ezra brings 20+ years of sharp digital insights and fair, principled solutions.

LucidCircus delivers high-quality work on time, on budget, and with great responsiveness.

LucidCircus turned our vision into reality, powering ISEBOX from bootstrap to $1M revenue.

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Where Technical Expertise Meets Investment Strategy

Pre-Investment — Technical Due Diligence

Post-Acquisition — Integration & Value Creation

Ongoing — Portfolio Company Support

What your portfolio companies will experience

Technical Due Diligence FAQ

Clarity for VCs.
Scale for founders.
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Technical Due Diligence & Portfolio Tech Support

Where Technical Expertise Meets Investment Strategy

What your portfolio companies will experience

Clarity for VCs. Scale for founders. Let’s talk.

Clarity for VCs.
Scale for founders.
Let’s talk.