03 · Founder decision

Founder Technical Diligence

Understand what the product and delivery system can support before a senior hire, investment, acquisition, partnership, or pivot.

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A bounded decision with an accountable owner.

  • A founder needs technical clarity for a specific commercial decision.
  • The product, architecture, delivery process, and ownership model can be evidenced.
  • The buyer values explicit limitations over a broad confidence score.

What is examined

  • One product or platform and one named founder decision.
  • Architecture, delivery capability, operational resilience, and security boundaries.
  • Technical debt, concentration risk, ownership gaps, and delivery constraints.
  • The quality and completeness of the evidence supplied.

What makes the decision useful

  • Architecture and product documentation that actually exists.
  • Repository, CI, release, incident, and operational evidence within scope.
  • Roadmap, ownership, and dependency context from authorized stakeholders.
  • A clear statement of unavailable or client-controlled evidence.

A decision pack that can be acted on.

Clear limits before work begins.

Start with the decision

Describe the target before sharing access or evidence.

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