An independent, vendor-neutral second opinion for investors — a fast Red-Flag Scan pre-LOI ($8–12K, five business days), or full technical and AI due diligence ($25–45K) landing on proceed / proceed-with-conditions / walk. Post-close, the same read becomes an AI acceleration on-ramp.
A short overview of Comuvia PE Technical Due Diligence — the timing wedge, two engagement depths plus a post-close on-ramp, the PASS/WATCH/RED-FLAG verdicts, and the five-day timeline.
The engagement is scoped to the deal timeline, not the other way around. Technical due diligence gets a slot between finance DD and legal DD — a red-flag answer that lands inside that slot changes what the finance and legal teams look for in weeks two and three. One that lands in three weeks changes nothing, because the deal is already priced.
| Engagement | Timeline | Price band | The deliverable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red-Flag Scan (pre-LOI) | 5 business days from data-room access | $8–12K | One-page red-flag memo + five-slide annex |
| Full technical + AI DD | 2–3 weeks | $25–45K | Full-thesis document, rebuild-cost estimate, integration plan — landing on proceed / proceed-with-conditions / walk |
| AI Acceleration (post-close) | Fractional retainer, 8–20 hours/month | Scoped after close | 90-day remediation plan built from the DD findings, with execution tracked against it |
Within the Red-Flag Scan band, pricing is fixed at the top of the band for targets with more than 500 employees and discounted at the bottom of the band for pre-B targets. Full DD is triggered when the scan surfaces WATCH findings the deal team wants converted to actionable severity. The same bands are published in the Red-Flag Scan methodology.
The five-day turnaround works because the inputs are named up front — a standard artifact request list goes to the deal team on day one, so the target can be pinged in one batch.
What the target's technology or AI has to be true for. The scan's ten questions are load-bearing on the thesis, not on best-practice checklists — so a "no red flag" answer means something concrete.
The scan runs on whatever the target returns within 72 hours against a standard ten-artifact request list — data inventories, model-provider contracts, evals reports, cost dashboards, org charts, roadmaps. A missing artifact is itself a signal, and it is noted in the memo.
One person who can put the artifact request to the target in a single batch and field clarifying questions during the window.
When the investment committee or partnership needs the answer. The engagement is scoped backward from that date.
Deal-relevant findings on architecture, AI credibility, data posture, security, and key-person risk — traced to evidence, not vendor decks.
Ten questions, each with one of three verdicts — PASS, WATCH, RED FLAG — and a one-sentence justification. This is the artifact the deal partner reads.
Verdict summary with confidence, the two-to-three highest-severity findings each with its evidence trail, and what would upgrade a WATCH to a RED FLAG in a follow-on Full DD.
A full-thesis document with a rebuild-cost estimate and an integration plan, landing on proceed / proceed-with-conditions / walk — written to be defensible in front of an investment committee.
The same read that scored the target becomes a 90-day remediation plan for the portfolio company, with a fractional advisor tracking execution against it at 8–20 hours per month.
Share the deal stage, thesis, and decision date. You get back the engagement shape — scan or full DD — with the price band and a delivery date scoped to the deal timeline.
The standard evidence list — ten questions mapped to ten data-room artifacts — goes to the deal team so the target can be pinged in one batch.
The scan runs on whatever comes back within 72 hours. Missing artifacts are treated as findings, not delays — a target that cannot produce its cost view in 72 hours is running blind on unit economics.
The one-page memo and five-slide annex land inside the five-business-day window, in time to shape what finance and legal diligence look for next.
A 2–3 week engagement converts WATCH findings to actionable severity and lands on proceed / proceed-with-conditions / walk, with a rebuild-cost estimate and integration plan.
Where the deal closes, the DD findings convert into a 90-day remediation plan and a fractional retainer that tracks execution against it.
The ten questions, the ten evidence artifacts, the verdict format, and the price bands — the complete methodology, public. Strong enough to buy on the pattern alone, with no client name required.
Read the methodology →
Comuvia validated a quantum risk-estimation capability against its own ground truth — and explicitly declined to claim a speedup. That is the discipline applied to every AI claim in a target's CIM.
Read the validation write-up →PE deal teams and operating partners whose thesis depends on the target's technology or AI, and investors or venture studios that need technical and AI risk framed for an investment committee — defensible in writing, on a deal timeline.
Three disqualifiers: the deal thesis does not actually depend on the AI or data stack (spend the diligence budget elsewhere); the data room has zero technical materials (the five-day turnaround assumes artifacts land within 72 hours); or the target is a foundation-model provider, which needs a different diligence structure closer to an infrastructure DD.
Comuvia sells no software, takes no reseller commissions, and partners with no single cloud or model provider. The advisory fee is the only revenue — so the recommendation follows the evidence, not a cross-sell. Hands-on AI acceleration exists only as a post-diligence on-ramp or inside a retainer.
Client-confidential data is handled under explicit controls and never folded into public content or shared corpora. NDA, rights, and retention terms are named in every proposal.
Sample redacted one-page memos are held in a private vault, with access restricted to PE GPs and operating partners on request. Use the contact form and mention "PE Red-Flag Scan sample" in the message; access is granted the same business day.
As an independent second opinion and red-team — it can run pre-LOI as a Red-Flag Scan, as full technical and AI diligence, or convert post-close into AI acceleration and a fractional advisory retainer. See the full advisory practice for the adjacent engagements.
Share the deal stage, what the thesis depends on, and the decision date. You get back the engagement shape, the price band, and a delivery date scoped to the deal timeline.
