The Answer for mid-market private equity
The Answer to tech due diligence
The Answer tech due diligence covers a comprehensive evaluation of a company's technology, systems, and infrastructure during key transactions like mergers, acquisitions, or investments. We assess everything from IT architecture and software to security practices and scalability.
We provide clarity on potential risks and opportunities, ensuring technology aligns with future growth and business goals. For buyers, this process helps avoid unforeseen challenges, while for sellers, it positions their technology as a valuable asset, maximising transaction value.
Buy side
With 25 years of experience delivering large-scale technology change programmes across the public and private sectors, we excel at quickly identifying and estimating potential challenges.
People, processes, and technology are key to your prospect’s growth.
We:
- Provide clear estimates for remediating any issues, ensuring you enter the transaction process fully informed about the technology risks you face.
- Quantify buy-side risks, bringing transparency and confidence to your deal-making.
Post-aquisition
Our partners highly value having an experienced, local advisor on-hand to support and guide their portfolio teams.
Your portfolio’s ability to deliver new technology initiatives or create operational efficiencies at scale is likely a key driver in your growth strategy.
At Answer, we’ve supported clients in:
- Launching new product offerings in highly regulated markets, both in the UK and internationally.
- Establishing robust change management processes, maturing their organisation, and enabling self-sufficiency in future technology delivery.
- Optimising assets and building efficiencies at scale.
We:
- Follow on from due diligence, addressing issues identified pre-acquisition.
- Create delivery assurance by deploying a multi-disciplinary technical team that integrates with your portfolio companies, providing you with confidence and visibility in roadmap execution.
Areas of expertise
Your portfolio’s ability to scale its technology function efficiently and on-target is crucial to realising the full potential of your investment.
Private equity investors often succeed by being generalists, but technology-led, high-growth businesses demand specific expertise.
On the buy-side, Answer creates transparency and builds confidence during deal-making.
Post-acquisition, Answer’s expert teams offer Delivery Assurance, complementing your portfolio’s technology leadership and delivery teams. With a wealth of experience, Answer ensures that roadmaps are detailed, accurate, and delivered as forecasted.
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Architecture & Infrastructure: Review of Tech Strategy, system architecture, evaluate the scalability, reliability, and performance
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Security & Data Protection: Review cybersecurity measures, data protection policies, and disaster recovery plans
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Development Processes: Assess the product development lifecycle and Path To Live setup
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Product & Technology Management: Review the product roadmap, pipeline, and any upcoming releases or enhancements
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Code & Data Quality: Developer Standards, technology used, code quality, test plan
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Support & Operations: Are Service & ITIL practices being followed? Review metrics related to support and operations
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Financial Analysis: Review licence spend across dev tooling and licensed SDKs, Cloud spend and FinOps practices, infrastructure costs and more
Transparent, employee-owned, and invested in your success
Proudly independent and employee owned, our Partners trust us for our transparency and expertise.
Partnering with Answer allows you assess strategy, lead and execute Technology Change Programmes. If improving prospect due diligence and portfolio performance is valuabl
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Award winning experts in business change and technology delivery.
Through our partnerships with Public Equity Backed and Publicly Listed Businesses, we've learned that approach, visibility, and reducing team friction are critical to delivering projects on time and within budget.
Digital transformation can become costly if not executed correctly, making the choice of a partner essential.
When facilitating new market entry, product development, or other value-adding activities, it's crucial to work with a partner who brings a proven track record of success.
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