Quality of IT Assessment:
IT Due Diligence for Business Transactions

Know exactly what you’re buying before IT becomes a cost after close.

Why IT Gets Missed in Due Diligence

Every deal checks the numbers beforehand, but how many deals check the technology?

Security Gaps Become Your Liability

A breach that started before you bought the business is still your problem after close. Standard diligence rarely tests how exposed the target actually is, so you inherit the risk without ever seeing it priced.

Aging Systems Become Your Bill

Deferred upgrades, end-of-life hardware, and systems held together with workarounds don’t show up in the financials. They show up as replacement costs once the deal is done.

Integration Costs More Than the Model Assumed

Two businesses rarely run on systems that fit together cleanly. When that surfaces after close, it lands as unbudgeted cost and delay against a plan that already assumed synergy.

A Quality of IT Assessment Closes the Gap

Our Quality of IT Assessment does for the technology what a Quality of Earnings (QoE) report does for the financials: an independent, pre-deal review that tells you what you’re really buying, in plain business terms, while you can still act on it. Whatever it surfaces becomes something you can price, negotiate, and plan for, instead of a cost you discover after close.

What a Quality of IT Assessment Covers

A Quality of IT Assessment is an independent, pre-deal review of the systems, security, and integration risk inside a transaction, commissioned buy-side or sell-side and delivered in plain business terms rather than a technical report.

We carry the assessment out on site, inside the business being assessed, and can conduct it discreetly as a routine technology and security review when a sale is not yet public. For a private equity platform or holding company acquiring more than one business, the same review repeats across each target and rolls up into a single, portfolio-level view of risk and readiness.

Each report looks at the four areas most likely to affect value, cost, or risk after close:

Security and Exposure

How well protected the business actually is, what a breach would cost you to inherit, and whether the target meets the standards your own customers and insurers expect.

Systems and Infrastructure

What the business genuinely runs on, how much of it is nearing end of life, and where the single points of failure sit that could disrupt operations after the deal.

Integration Readiness

How realistically the target's technology can come together with yours, or stand on its own as a platform for future acquisitions, and what that post-merger integration will take in time, cost, and effort.

Hidden Costs and Liabilities

Deferred spend, licensing gaps, unfavorable contracts, and commitments that don't appear in the financials but land on the P&L once you own them.

The Best Time For a Quality of IT Assessment Is Before You Close

Book a short conversation to see where a Quality of IT Assessment fits your deal. Whether you are an acquirer sizing up a target, a seller getting ahead of a buyer’s diligence, or a private equity team standardizing a portfolio, we’ll walk through the deal, the timeline, and what the assessment would tell you before you commit to anything.

Quality of IT Assessment:IT Due Diligence for Business Transactions