Direct answer
ARCHITEKT assesses the target's technology, product, data, security, delivery organisation and operating model against the investment thesis. Findings are translated into material risks, value levers and the operating priorities ownership will inherit after the deal.
What the mandate must answer
- Can the platform support the investment thesis?
- What can prevent growth or integration?
- What is materially fragile?
- What is being underinvested?
- Which claims are evidenced and which depend on management assertion?
- What must happen in the first 100 days?
- What should ownership expect over the first 24 months?
Evidence read through an operator's consequences
Architecture matters because somebody will have to migrate it.
Delivery capability matters because somebody will have to hit the thesis.
Organisation matters because somebody will have to own the roadmap after closing.
Scope
- Product and platform architecture
- Delivery organisation and engineering practice
- Data estate and its governance
- Security posture and compliance exposure
- AI claims, and what is actually in production
- Operating model and key-person dependency
Independence
The diligence is written to be read by the investment committee, not to sell the next mandate. If an execution mandate follows, its accountability is scoped explicitly rather than hidden inside the advisory work.
What the buyer receives
- Material risks, rated and evidenced
- Value levers tied to the thesis
- A post-deal ownership map
- First 100 days and a 24-month operating view
Exit
The report stands on its own: it is usable by whoever owns the asset, with or without ARCHITEKT afterwards.
Capabilities mobilised
Where it has run
Questions
- Is this a red-flag review or a full diligence?
- Both shapes exist. The scope is agreed against the thesis and the timetable of the transaction before the mandate starts, and the deliverable states which one was run.
- Do you also do the post-deal work?
- Only under a separate, explicitly scoped mandate. Advice is written by operators who understand the consequences of execution; if an execution mandate follows, its accountability is scoped explicitly rather than hidden inside the advisory work.