Technical due diligence
A freshly rebuilt site can hide exactly how long the old one went unmaintained
A vehicle inspection and appraisal software provider whose public marketing site had, ahead of a sale process, been running for years on a decade-old front-end stack — including an analytics integration that had stopped collecting data well over a year earlier, invisible to a check that only looked at the site's current, since-rebuilt state. Technical due diligence: $10,000–$25,000, one to three weeks.
What we find
Ahead of a sale process, the company's public marketing site had been running for years on a decade-old front-end stack, including an analytics integration that had quietly stopped collecting data well over a year before anyone rebuilt the site. That's the kind of neglect that's genuinely invisible if you only look at the site as it exists today — by the time a buyer or an advisor checks it, it's already been cleaned up, and the years of drift that preceded the cleanup leave no trace in the current state.
Why it matters for a PE holder
A live-only technical check on this kind of target reads as clean, because the current site genuinely is clean — the problem is what that cleanliness conceals. A pre-sale rebuild is itself a signal worth reading correctly: it can mean the team is diligent about presentation right when it matters most, and it can also mean nobody was tending to the technical foundation for years until a sale made it worth the effort. A buyer who only checks the current state can't tell those two stories apart.
What the engagement checks
The diligence engagement reads a target's public footprint across time, not just its current state — pulling archived snapshots to reveal how long a stack actually went unmaintained even after a pre-sale cleanup, which is exactly the window a live-only check is structurally unable to see into.
$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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Bring us one workflow.
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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