Architecture and ownership
Explain how the system changes.
- System context and critical dependencies
- Module, service, and decision owners
- Known coupling and replacement constraints
Resource 13 · Diligence guide
Technical diligence guide
Prepare the evidence an investor, acquirer, enterprise buyer, technical advisor, or incoming engineering leader will request.
The working guide
Follow the evidence across the whole system.
Good diligence connects technical evidence to business consequences. It distinguishes a known defect from a missing artifact and a temporary workaround from structural risk.
Security and data
Show the boundaries that protect value.
- Identity, authorization, and tenant model
- Sensitive-data inventory and retention
- Secrets, vendors, and privileged-access controls
Delivery evidence
Prove changes can ship safely.
- Critical-path tests and CI results
- Deployment, migration, and rollback process
- Release cadence and failure history
Operations and resilience
Show how failure is detected and repaired.
- Monitoring and alert ownership
- Incident, backup, and recovery evidence
- Capacity limits and scaling assumptions
Commercial risk
Translate findings into decisions.
- Key-person and vendor concentration
- Licensing and dependency exposure
- 30/60/90-day remediation priorities
Evidence to keep
Leave a record another person can verify.
- 01One-page system map
- 02Risk register with evidence links
- 03Last successful build and deployment record
- 04Prioritized remediation plan with owners
Choose the next useful step
Use the guide to define the first accountable decision.
We can review the evidence with your team and turn the gaps into a scoped plan without taking ownership away from you.