InvestingTechnical Due Diligence
Angel A
£50,000
deployed into one business as a pre-seed investment for this angel, which was SEIS qualifying.
- Client
- Angel investor
- Stage
- Pre-seed
- Scope
- Three opportunities
- Timeframe
- Four weeks, fixed cost
Services
Advisory Support
Focused, fixed-scope engagements that bring senior technology judgement to a single, high-stakes decision.
Deliverable-focused, embedded expertise for your immediate needs
Advisory is for the moments when you need senior judgement on a specific decision. Each engagement is clearly scoped: we deliver a defined outcome and leave you with clarity you can act on.
Every engagement starts the same way: by agreeing what success looks like for you. From there, the scope, the price, and the deliverable are set up front.
Where we help
Key decisions that require expert technology guidance
Most advisory work falls into a few areas:
Investment Readiness
Preparing to raise or sell? We review your technology, team, and story the way an investor’s or buyer’s due diligence team would, so you can close gaps before they become issues.
Business Technology Strategy
A clear, honest view of where your technology should go next, and what to avoid. The future state, grounded in commercial reality.
Product Roadmapping
Structured prioritisation that aligns what you build with where the business is going and what your resources allow.
Technical Audit & Review
An independent look at your platforms, processes, or team, with the risks and opportunities set out plainly.
Angel investor & venture capital support
Assessing a business before you invest?
If you need an independent technical view of a target company before you commit capital, we can provide a specialist technical due diligence service.
Why we’re different:
Our engagements can go beyond advice.
- Hands-on expertise to implement strategies in your business.
- Work alongside your board and stakeholders, as part of your team.
- Ongoing support, measurement, and monitoring post-delivery.
Our involvement adapts to your stage, but the intent stays the same: to enable you to reach your definition of success.
Explore Fractional CTOWhen businesses typically engage us for advice
At the beginning of your journey, when you need confidence that the people, partners, and technology that will underpin your business or product are structured with long-term success in mind.
When you’re planning for growth, where technical leadership is needed to enable your business to sustain growth, either pre- or post-investment, with technology working for you, not against you.
In both cases, the goal is the same: clarity and confidence in technology.
Engagements
Where this work has made the difference
A decision to make?
Investment readiness, a product roadmap or an independent audit: fixed scope and fixed fee, for the decision in front of you.