Mergers & Acquisitions

Deal narratives often rest on three claims: the tech is sound, the moat is defensible, and AI is core to the business. All three are easy to overstate and hard to test from the outside.

How it works

• Three focused audits, run independently or as a bundle.

• Tech-debt audit: What costs will surface in the first 18 months post-close.

• IP-moat audit: What is genuinely defensible versus what could be replicated in a quarter.

• AI-core audit: Whether the AI is structurally embedded or a thin wrapper over a vendor model.

Output

1. A tech-debt finding, written for deal committees.

2. An IP-moat finding, with replication-cost estimates.

3. An AI-core finding, separating real moat from vendor-wrapper exposure.

4. A combined memo when the three are commissioned together.

Cost: $12K USD / $18K AUD+GST per audit.