Every technical due diligence assessment tells a story. The red flags that matter most are rarely the obvious ones - they are the architectural decisions, testing gaps, and deployment risks that compound silently until they become expensive problems. Here is what I look for after 20 years of assessing codebases.
Technical due diligence evaluates whether the technology behind a product is sound, scalable, and secure before investment. This guide explains what the seven core assessment areas cover, what assessors look for, and how founders can prepare - written for non-technical decision-makers.
Benchmarks don't tell the full story. After running Claude Code and Codex CLI side by side on real production work, the difference that actually matters in agentic workflows isn't capability — it's output style.
Most businesses overspend on technology without realising it. Over-engineered solutions, wrong architecture choices, technical debt, and vendor lock-in quietly compound into significant waste. Here are the patterns I see most often and what you can do about each one.
On-premises hosting costs £327-771/month vs cloud at £37-93/month. Only 3 scenarios justify self-hosting. Here's the full breakdown.
Only 31% of software projects succeed. When yours is in trouble, what actually happens when you bring in outside help? Here's a day-by-day walkthrough of the first week of a project rescue - from initial assessment through triage to a clear recovery plan.
If WordPress really let anyone build a website, there wouldn't be 30,000 agencies worldwide doing it for them. The same pattern repeats across the entire mid-tier SaaS landscape, and AI is about to expose it.
PaaS platforms (Render, Railway, Fly.io) cost £44-96/month with zero infrastructure work. For small teams, they beat cloud on TCO.
Only 31% of software projects succeed. The rest show warning signs early - scope creep, developer turnover, communication breakdown. Here are 7 signs your project is in trouble and what to do about it.
In 2023 we packed up our life in Gloucester and spent 16 months as a remote solutions architect, living and working across Tenerife, South Africa, Mauritius, Panama, and Costa Rica as a family of four. Here is what it was actually like.
European clouds (Hetzner, Scaleway, OVH) offer 50-80% savings over Azure. UK data centres available. Full GDPR compliance included.
AI coding assistants generate code fast. Without proper version control discipline, you might lose it just as quickly. Learn from real mistakes.
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