Most technology due diligence is a risk hunt. When an acquirer's team goes into your business, they are not there to admire the architecture. They are there to find the things that let them argue the price down: technical debt, security gaps, key-person risk, unclear IP ownership, change-of-control clauses buried in supplier contracts. Whatever they find, they use.
By the time an offer is on the table, it is too late to tidy up. The issues surface in diligence at the worst possible moment, and every one of them becomes leverage for a retrade. The businesses that command the strongest multiples are simply the ones that could survive diligence today.
That is the problem we built ExitReady to solve.
What ExitReady is
ExitReady is a technology exit readiness web app. It assesses your technology the way an acquirer's diligence will, then shows you exactly what to fix, and in what order, to protect your valuation and avoid a retrade.
In other words, it puts you on the other side of the process. You see what a buyer would see, and you get the runway to act on it while there is still time to make a difference.
You start with a free readiness assessment: a structured questionnaire that takes minutes to complete, followed by an immediate score. If you want the detail behind the score, the full board-ready report unlocks the remediation plan.
Readiness is not reactive
The mistake most owners make is treating diligence as something that happens to them. It arrives, they respond, and they spend the deal period firefighting issues they could have closed months earlier.
Readiness flips that. Run the assessment early, act on what it surfaces, and re-run it as you close the gaps. The point is not one adviser's opinion on the day. It is a consistent, repeatable view of where you stand, so you go to market from a position of strength rather than defence.
The ten domains an acquirer scrutinises
The assessment mirrors the areas a technology due diligence process actually examines. There are ten of them:
- Architecture and scalability
- Technical debt and codebase health
- Cyber security and resilience
- Data, privacy and compliance
- Engineering team and key-person risk
- Delivery and engineering practices
- Cloud, cost and infrastructure efficiency
- IP, licensing and code ownership
- Vendor, contract and change-of-control risk
- Product, roadmap and AI story
Each domain is scored, and the results are presented as a heatmap so you can see at a glance where you are strong and where you are exposed.
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The deal-killers, surfaced on their own
What counts as a deal-killer
Not every issue carries the same weight. Some are cosmetic. Others are binary: the kind that retrade or collapse a deal regardless of how good everything else looks. An IP-ownership gap. A change-of-control clause that lets a critical supplier walk away the moment you sell. A single engineer who holds the keys to the whole platform.
Why they surface first
ExitReady pulls these deal-killers out and presents them separately, with a count you can see the moment your score appears. They are the issues you want to know about first, because they are the ones a buyer will reach for first.
What you get
The free snapshot
The free snapshot gives you an honest starting point:
- Your overall readiness score
- A domain-by-domain heatmap
- How many critical deal-killer issues were detected
The full report
The full report turns that snapshot into a plan to protect the multiple:
- Every deal-killer in full: what a buyer does with it, and how to fix it
- Your top valuation risks, framed the way a buyer's diligence would use them on price
- A prioritised remediation roadmap, sequenced against your exit timeline, with effort and owners attached
- A technology equity story that reinforces what your advisers take to market
That last point matters. Diligence is not only about defending against risk. A well-evidenced technology story, told in the language buyers understand, is part of what justifies the multiple in the first place.
Why it is credible
Built on the acquirer's lens
ExitReady is built on how acquirers actually run technology diligence: the same lens, the same questions, the same things that move a price. It is a product of Intology, a technology transformation consultancy that works on both sides of these deals.
Repeatable, not a one-off
The value is in the repeatability. Rather than a one-off assessment that depends on who happened to be in the room, you get a structured, consistent evaluation you can run early, act on, and run again as the gaps close.
The economics
On a £20m deal, a single turn shaved off the multiple is real money, and technology issues are exactly what buyers use to argue for it. A change-of-control clause or an IP-ownership gap missed until late diligence can cost far more than a turn. It can cost the deal.
Set against that, readiness is inexpensive insurance. The report is £2,500. The value it protects is measured in multiples.
Where to start
You cannot fix in diligence what you did not prepare for. The free assessment takes minutes and shows you exactly where you stand today, before a buyer ever gets the chance to find out for you.