Technical due diligence that gives your investors confidence
The term sheet is close. Then the investor's technical advisor asks for repository access, spends two weeks inside your code, and the deal slows down. Sometimes it dies there, over findings you could have fixed months earlier. Doomity runs that same review before the investor's advisor arrives: an independent technical due diligence, sell-side, so you walk into the round already knowing what they will find and what you will say about it. The first step is an Investor Readiness Sprint: five working days, fixed scope, guaranteed deliverables.
Updated: July 2026
- 1 Day 1 Kickoff & access → Evidence inventory
- 2 Day 2 Technical review → Findings with evidence
- 3 Day 3 Risk map → Every issue classified
- 4 Day 4 Options A/B/C → Trade-offs on the table
- 5 Day 5 Executive session → 30/60/90 roadmap
What does an investor's technical advisor actually review?
Six areas, roughly in this order of pain. The advisor is not grading elegance; they are pricing risk, because the base rates justify their fee: a McKinsey–Oxford study of 5,400 IT projects found 45% run over budget and deliver 56% less value than promised. Expect scrutiny on:
- Code quality. Tests, review discipline, and how much of the product one grep can explain.
- Architecture. Whether the system can grow with the plan you are pitching, or quietly caps it.
- Security. Secrets handling, access control, and what a breach would cost the cap table.
- Infrastructure. Deploys, rollback, monitoring, and who gets paged when production breaks.
- Team and process. Who ships, how decisions get made, and what is documented versus remembered.
- Founder dependency. What stops working the week a single person is unavailable.
Want the short version first? The Investor Readiness Scorecard tells you where you stand: ten questions, three minutes, free.
How does the Investor Readiness Sprint work in five days?
The Investor Readiness Sprint is Doomity's fixed-scope first engagement for founders heading into a round: five working days, guaranteed deliverables, no long-term contract. Senior engineers run the same review an investor's advisor would run, then go one step further: not only what is wrong, but in what order to fix it and how to talk about it without spin.
The guarantee covers process and deliverables, never outcomes. Nobody can promise you a term sheet, and anyone who does is selling a story. What Doomity commits to is documented in the Doomity method. One honest incentive is built into the price: sign a project with Doomity within 30 days and the Sprint fee is fully discounted from it.
What exactly do you hold at the end of the week?
Six deliverables, and each one exists to be shown to someone: your board, your investor, or the advisor across the table.
- Due diligence report. Written to be handed over, not buried. Evidence for every finding.
- Risk map. Each issue classified: kills the deal, invites a discount, or is normal for your stage.
- A/B/C options with trade-offs. For every significant finding, three ways forward with cost and consequence spelled out. You choose; nobody chooses for you.
- 30/60/90 roadmap. Remediation sequenced against your fundraising calendar, not an ideal one.
- Executive session. A working session with the founders to rehearse the hard questions before an investor asks them.
- Technical narrative for the pitch. The honest version of your technology story: what is solid, what is planned, and why the debt you carry was a reasonable trade.
When the findings point at an aging stack, option B is often a scoped modernization instead of the rewrite a nervous advisor might demand. That path is described in legacy modernization.
Can Doomity assess for the investor instead of the founder?
Yes, and the two roles stay strictly separate. Most of the time Doomity works sell-side: hired by founders to prepare before the round opens. But investors and acquirers also hire Doomity as an independent assessor, buy-side, to read a target's code and report what is actually there.
Never both sides of the same deal. The moment a report has to please two clients, it is worth nothing to either. The method is identical in both directions, which is exactly why the sell-side preparation works: you get the buy-side review, just earlier, and answering to you. Not sure which side of the table you are on? Book a 25-minute call.
What if part of your codebase was written by AI?
Then expect the advisor to ask about it, because the data gives them a reason to. Roughly 45% of AI-generated code introduces security vulnerabilities, according to Veracode 2025, which tested over 100 large language models on real coding tasks. A product built partly with Lovable, Bolt or Cursor is not a red flag by itself. Unread AI output running in production is.
The due diligence reads that code the way the advisor will: what was generated, what was reviewed, and what still enforces nothing behind a convincing UI. If the AI-built part needs hardening before anyone opens the data room, that is its own engagement: AI prototype to production.
Who is Doomity, and why would investors trust its report?
Doomity LLC is a software development firm specializing in custom software, legacy modernization, AI prototype-to-production, software project rescue and technical due diligence, serving clients in the US, UK, Spain and Portugal. Its engineers come from teams that have built for Holcim, Canon España and Indra.
That background is the whole point of this service. Enterprise delivery is a discipline of evidence: findings you can defend line by line, in front of people paid to doubt you. Doomity uses AI in its own delivery process, up to 40% faster, with every finding checked by a senior engineer before it reaches a report. And if the project you are raising on is already off the rails, that is a different problem with a different first step: software project rescue.
FAQ
Six areas: code quality (tests, review discipline, readability), architecture (whether the system supports the growth you are pitching), security (secrets, access control, exposure), infrastructure (deploys, rollback, monitoring), team and process (who ships and how), and founder dependency (what breaks if one person leaves). The advisor's job is to price risk, so every finding turns into a question about valuation or deal terms. The preparation exists so you answer those questions with a plan instead of a pause.
The Investor Readiness Sprint is five working days, fixed scope, and that part does not move. By the end of the week you hold the report, the risk map, the A/B/C options, the 30/60/90 roadmap, the executive session and the technical narrative. Remediation is a separate decision and runs on the 30/60/90 plan. For comparison, an investor's own review typically takes two weeks or more once it starts, which is exactly why preparing earlier is cheaper than reacting later.
Six, all guaranteed: a due diligence report written to be handed over; a risk map classifying every finding by severity; A/B/C options with trade-offs for each significant issue, so decisions stay yours; a 30/60/90 remediation roadmap sequenced against your fundraising calendar; an executive session to rehearse the hard questions; and a technical narrative for the pitch. The guarantee covers process and deliverables, never outcomes. No one can promise you a closed round, and Doomity will not pretend to.
Yes. Investors and acquirers hire Doomity buy-side to read a target's codebase and report what is actually there, with evidence. The rule is strict: never both sides of the same deal, because a report that has to please two clients protects neither. Sell-side or buy-side, the method is the same review; only the client changes. That symmetry is what makes sell-side preparation useful: it is the investor's review, run early, answering to you.
They go in the report, plainly, with evidence and options. Softening findings would defeat the purpose: if Doomity can find a problem in five days, the investor's advisor will find it in two weeks. Every serious finding comes with A/B/C paths and their trade-offs, plus its place in the 30/60/90 roadmap. A known problem with a costed plan reads as competence. The same problem discovered by the other side reads as a discount, or an exit.
Before you open the round. The Sprint itself takes five working days, but the 30/60/90 roadmap needs runway to execute, and the most valuable fixes are the ones finished before an investor ever sees the repository. Starting after the term sheet still helps, because walking into the review with your own report beats walking in blind, but by then your negotiating position is already set. The earlier the review, the more of its findings become your story instead of their objection.
Would your tech survive due diligence? 10-question check
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Findings you discover are a plan. Findings the investor's advisor discovers are a discount, and sometimes the end of the conversation. The Investor Readiness Sprint takes five working days and ends with a report whose timing you control, options you chose, and a narrative you can defend in the room. Start before you open the round, not when the term sheet is already running.