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How much technology risk are you taking on?
You have heard the pitch. This snapshot asks what the company has actually shown you about who owns its technology, who can keep it running, how it is built and tested, how it handles security and data, what its AI claims rest on, whether the technology can deliver the plan, and whether there is a strategy behind it. "Don't know" is a fair answer, and often the finding. You leave with the risks that follow from what you have been told and the questions to put to the company before the next meeting, the term sheet and completion. Written for companies of up to a few hundred people.
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What the snapshot covers
- Who owns the technology Code, IP, dependencies and whether the product could be handed over.
- Who can keep it running Key people, contractors, technical leadership and AI-written code.
- How it is built and tested Testing, releases, technical debt, scale and what happens when things break.
- Security, data and regulation Independent testing, where data lives, recovery, and product security rules for connected products.
- The AI claims What the company owns in its AI, how it is measured, what it costs and whose data it uses.
- Does the technology support the plan Where the forecast, the customers and the roadmap depend on technology that exists, and where they depend on technology still to come.
- Plan and delivery Whether the money maps to a technical plan, the delivery record, cost to serve and candour.