Audits and technical due diligence for startups and investors

What does our audit report look like? In one sentence: it’s a very detailed document (15-20 pages), covering all the risks associated with your current technology, codebase, and team-level problems that will eventually prevent your software product from scaling.

Around 90% of SaaS startups fail within 3 years from launching despite having access to sufficient funding. One of the main reasons is their inability to predict what could go wrong with their product, team, or both.

Through our unique auditing process, we’ll help you avoid that scenario. Apart from the specific areas you’ll like us to cover, we’ll also get youanswers to the key questions every CTO, founder, or SaaS technical leader should know :

Is your software solution ready to scale?

• How much legacy code and technical debt does your product have?
• What prevents your development team from increasing quality and performance?
• Why does your engineering team keep missing deadlines?
• Will you be able to scale your SaaS product with the current team, technology, and processes?

1. We start with a baseline interview, a 2-hour call with the CTO (or other senior leadership). During this time, we cover a lot of ground. Our goal is to know about the key players in the town and the main areas to focus in on during our remaining interviews.

2. We prepare for this interview by getting access to an org-chart and deciding on 3 to 5 key questions (from you or an investment team). We also schedule placeholder interviews.

3. After the baseline interview, we know who we want to talk to and the important systems to review. We invite other team members to the pre-scheduled calls and ask for access to codebases, ticketing systems, and documentation tools.

4. Behind the scenes our team dives deep, checking for best practices across the various systems. During interviews, we zoom in on specific details in an effort to understand how a team thinks about their work.

5. After a week or so, it’s time to write the report. We document our observations and concerns, then share a draft with the company. We refine the finished version and share it with the recipients.

6. We debrief the report after people have had a chance to read it. Then we answer questions. We even join board meetings if necessary. From the first interview, it takes 10 business days to complete the audit.