73% of SaaS acquisitions fall apart in technical due diligence. In 5 minutes, find out exactly where yours would break — and the 3 highest-leverage moves to fix it.
You've built a real business. Real revenue. Real customers. The product works. Growth is solid. From the outside, you look acquisition-ready.
Then a buyer expresses interest. Their team starts technical due diligence. Within two weeks, the deal is dead — not because of revenue, not because of growth, but because of things you didn't know would matter:
By the time you find out, the deal is gone. The next buyer hears about it. The valuation drops. The conversation moves on.
Every one of these problems is fixable with 90 days of warning. None of them is fixable in the 21-day technical due diligence window.
12 questions. 5 minutes. Built from V2STech's playbook across three completed SaaS acquisitions.
This isn't a marketing quiz. It's a structured walkthrough of exactly what an acquirer's technical team will inspect when they show up at your door.
Every question is mapped to a specific concern that surfaces in real technical due diligence — sourced from FE International, Software Equity Group, and the patterns we've seen across QFix (acquired by Pinelabs, unicorn), Carebeans (acquired by QCS, NHS Assured), and Fissara (acquired by McAuliffe Group, 2023).
In 5 minutes, you'll know:
Most engineering firms theorize about technical due diligence. We've been on the seller side of three completed exits.
V2STech: lead engineering partner from product launch through exit.
V2STech: 4-year engineering partnership through acquisition.
V2STech: lead engineering partner pre and post-exit.
This self-assessment is the playbook we wish we'd had on day one of each of these engagements. Now you get to use it.
— Vishal Samant, CEO, V2STechYour score across 12 dimensions, plus your tier — Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced — and what that means for your timeline.
Printable PDF delivered to your inbox. Take the assessment at your own pace, total your score, and get tier-specific recommendations.
The technical areas buyers always probe in due diligence — and what passing answers look like for your specific tier.
A starting point for your next quarter, prioritized to maximize your readiness gains in the shortest time.
No. You can take the full assessment, see your score, and read your tier-specific recommendations on screen — all without giving us your email. Email is only requested if you want to download the PDF or have it sent to you.
Each question is calibrated against patterns from real technical due diligence — not invented. If your score says you'd struggle in due diligence, that's based on the same red flags actual buyers raise. Real audits go deeper, but the directional answer is reliable.
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Especially if you don't think you're ready. The score will tell you exactly where the gap is and how long the work will take. Most founders use this as a 12–24 month roadmap, not a one-month decision.
Take the assessment now. See your score on screen. Download the PDF if you want to share it with your team or refer back later.
Other free tools in this series — pair them for a complete picture of where your SaaS stands.
Your score tells us something important: you have a working SaaS business, but if a serious acquirer started technical due diligence tomorrow, the conversation wouldn't get past week two. The work is disciplined, not dramatic.
Every weakness your score surfaced is fixable. The same patterns we saw in QFix before Pinelabs acquired it, and Carebeans before QCS. Both started where you are now. The good news: you have time, and you have a clear sequence to work through.
Acquirers compute "effective engineering capacity" by subtracting maintenance from total hours. Run a 2-week tech debt audit. Triage. Fix the issues blocking new feature development. The goal: get effective capacity above 60% so the team can ship.
Documentation gaps are the #1 reason small SaaS deals fall apart. Spend 4 weeks producing four artifacts: architecture diagram, API docs, deployment runbooks, on-call playbooks. This alone can shift you from Beginner to Intermediate in 6 weeks.
If deploys are manual, monitoring is reactive, and tests are sparse — fix this before anything else. CI/CD with 50%+ test coverage on critical paths and basic application monitoring is table stakes for any acquirer above $1M ARR.
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