Critical equipment
Which machines, lines or technical capabilities contribute disproportionately to value creation?
Technical Due Diligence
Is the company's technical capability genuinely transferable?
Financial and legal due diligence answer many important questions. They do not automatically reveal whether a critical production capability depends on ageing special-purpose equipment, proprietary software states, one OEM or the knowledge of individual people.
The gap
A financially healthy company can be surprisingly fragile from a technical perspective.
The key question is not only whether the equipment is producing today. It is whether the technical capability remains controlled and recoverable after an ownership transition, a personnel change, an equipment failure or the loss of a supplier.
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Example
One special-purpose system can change the economic assessment of an entire operation.
Controller discontinued. No current restore has been tested. One employee knows the parameter set. OEM support is informal only. Spare-part lead time is several months. Dependencies like these are often almost invisible during normal operation — until they matter.
Assessment fields
We assess technical risks that matter for transferability, value and continued operation.
Key people
Which technical functions effectively depend on individuals whose knowledge has not been transferred sufficiently?
Software & restore
Are programs, parameters, engineering environments, licences and backups complete and practically usable?
Obsolescence
Which components or systems are difficult to source, unsupported or replaceable only through informal channels?
OEMs & partners
Which capabilities sit outside the company, and what alternatives exist if a partner becomes unavailable?
Recovery
How realistic is the assumed recovery time after a technical failure?
Result
A technical decision basis — not a blanket company valuation.
The agreed scope is described through its material technical dependencies. The result can feed into acquisition review, succession planning or post-closing actions.
Risk Map
Critical technical dependencies and single points of failure, prioritised by relevance to continuity and recovery.
Continuity Findings
Specific findings on knowledge, software, equipment, obsolescence, support and technical transfer risks.
Post-Closing Priorities
Actions that should be technically secured immediately after acquisition or as part of a succession process.
For advisers & investors
Complementary to financial, legal and commercial due diligence.
Technical Continuity does not assess the balance sheet, contracts or market position. It examines the technical capability behind value creation. The review question can be defined jointly with M&A advisers, succession advisers, investors or the buyer.
The review does not replace a conventional equipment condition survey, safety assessment, cybersecurity assessment or financial due diligence. It focuses on transferability, recoverability and critical technical dependencies.
Starting point
The review question is clearly bounded up front.
It can cover one critical production capability, a plant, a special-purpose system or a selected technical risk area. Effort and fixed price are agreed transparently after a short scoping discussion.