Vendor technical due diligence Control the narrative before investors arrive.
Senior-led vendor due diligence for companies preparing to sell, raise investment or move to a new private equity sponsor. Strengths in the foreground, risks in their proper context, and your team ready well before a buyer starts asking.
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Platform architecture Strength
Clear structure, documented ownership, and the evidence to back how the platform scales.
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Technical debt Risk, in context
Material, but proportionate to stage. Costed, prioritised, and already on the roadmap.
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Open source licences Confirm
Licence review complete. Residual items closed before the data room opens.
The case for getting ahead.
When you sell or raise, buyers will examine your technology and product closely. Vendor due diligence gives you an honest, senior-led view of that story first, judged against your size, your stage of growth and the investor's plans.
You go into the process knowing what a buyer will find, rather than hearing it first in their questions.
You have already seen the areas a buyer will probe, so their diligence confirms your story instead of unpicking it.
One vendor report for several interested parties is quicker and smoother than three to five buy-side processes.
We know what buyers are trying to uncover, and we tell the story on your behalf when they arrive.
Our services.
Our primary focus is getting you ready for a transaction, and standing behind the technology story when it matters.
Sell-side technology and product diligence for shareholders preparing to exit or raise.
Read moreBuy-side diligence that finds what other providers miss, so you can price the deal and deliver the plan.
Read morePreparation well ahead of a deal, with a senior partner in the room, so nothing comes as a surprise.
Read moreAn independent read on security posture and maturity, for a transaction or simply to know your real exposure.
Read moreA periodic, investor-lens review of platform, delivery, cost and risk when there is no live deal.
Read moreTell us about your exit, fundraise or sponsor transition. We will tell you which workstreams matter.
Start a conversationSeparating a business from its parent, from TSA planning to standalone infrastructure.
A steady hand on technology and delivery for portfolio and post-deal situations.
Hands-on builds, using AI and language models only where they earn their place.
Standard scope.
Scope is tailored to each deal and keeps moving with what investors want to understand. We assess technology businesses and technology-enabled ones: the platforms they rely on, how those fit together, and the risks that come with them.
Recent additions include how well teams use AI to accelerate their own development, and whether a product's use of language models is defensible, affordable and secure.
Most processes fragment. We build one story.
Every engagement is led by a senior practitioner, with findings calibrated to what investors care about in a changing technology, security and AI landscape.
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01Scope & timeline
What the process must prove, which workstreams matter, and how findings will be used across the data room.
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02Evidence & discovery
Structured access across architecture, engineering, security, roadmap, delivery and key dependencies.
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03Report & narrative
Strengths set out, risks put in context for your stage, findings aligned with your plans.
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04Data room & buyer defence
Request lists aligned, the team coached, and expert sessions joined so every answer tells one story.
A level playing field.
Vendor diligence has usually been reserved for PE-backed businesses. A reduced valuation matters just as much to a founder or a retiring owner, so we support businesses from start-ups onwards.
Preparing a first exit or fundraise, often without a corporate team behind you.
Raising in competitive rounds where scrutiny is intense.
Sponsor transitions, add-on integrations and exit preparation.
A sale that reflects a lifetime of work, with a technology story that supports the valuation.
Not only SaaS: the platforms you run on and the risks that come with them.
A technology and product chapter that matches the deal story.
Where we have worked.
For buyers, our technical due diligence finds what other providers miss and shows what needs fixing early, so you can reduce risk and deliver on your plans for the investment.
North East HQ · UK & international
Washington Baltic is based in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. We support technology due diligence across Newcastle, the North East, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam, Dubai and the wider Middle East—on-site when the deal requires it.
Regional press.
- 01 · Coverage The Northern Echo
- 02 · Coverage North East Connected
- 03 · Coverage Bdaily
Perfection does not exist in technology businesses, and investors know it.
Honest. In context.
What matters is how risks sit against your stage of growth, your plans and the deal narrative. We help you tell a positive, credible story that is clear about what is genuinely material.
Every assessment is led by a practitioner with 15 or more years of relevant experience.
We do not sell software, recruit or implement. Our only product is an honest assessment.
Focused on what investors care about, not engineering perfection for its own sake.
We work alongside bankers, W&I insurers, and legal, commercial and financial diligence.
Start with a 30-minute conversation.
Tell us about your exit, fundraise or sponsor transition, and we will tell you whether we can help.