Technical due diligence
The login flow every customer passes through can be the most out-of-date part of the stack
A safety and regulatory-compliance software provider, with a hardware component, whose customer-facing login and identity service runs on a modern backend framework — but the front-end libraries loaded directly into that authentication flow are several years out of date. Technical due diligence: $10,000–$25,000, one to three weeks.
What we find
The backend framework behind the login and identity service is a modern one — this isn't a story about an old server stack. But the front-end libraries loaded directly into that authentication flow are several years out of date, sitting on top of a current backend rather than replaced along with it. It's the one surface every single customer has to pass through, and it's exactly the kind of drift that a team modernizing the parts customers see and talk about can miss in the parts they don't.
Why it matters for a PE holder
Stale dependencies anywhere carry some risk; stale dependencies inside a login flow carry it concentrated in the one place a breach is most consequential — account takeover on a system that gates safety and compliance workflows for a regulated industry. It's also a useful signal in its own right: a company that modernized its backend but left the front-end dependencies on its most sensitive flow untouched for years is a company where dependency hygiene isn't being tracked systematically, which is worth knowing well beyond this one flow.
What the engagement checks
The diligence engagement runs a fast, non-invasive fingerprint of a target's customer-facing services to surface exactly this kind of dependency drift before it becomes an incident — without needing source-code access or vendor cooperation, so it can run even before a data room opens.
$10,000–$25,000, one to three weeks. We read what a target company's codebase, dependencies and infrastructure actually run, find the specific legacy-stack or security exposure it carries, and hand back a report scoped enough to become the remediation plan — if the deal proceeds and one is warranted.
This pattern is drawn from public research on a real, small software company, not a completed Shashtram engagement. Named engagements with measured figures replace it as clients clear being named.
One pattern, not the whole offer
This is one pattern. The full technical due diligence offer covers pricing, what the report contains, and answers to the questions PE operating partners actually ask.
Diligence is Map, scoped to one question and priced on its own — not a separate product, and never an assumed rewrite.
Questions
Straight answers.
What if we don't proceed to a rebuild after the report?
Then the report is what you paid for, and the engagement ends there. Nothing about the diligence commits you to a modernization project — most of the value in a $10,000–$25,000 read is knowing what you're actually buying, whether or not you act on it afterward.
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Tell us the process that crosses the most systems. You get a scope, a measure and a delivery plan back — and a straight answer if we think it is not worth building.
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