Due-Diligence Read
A technical read on an AI-built codebase, before you wire the money.
More and more of the codebases crossing your desk were substantially written by AI. That's not a red flag by itself, but it changes what due diligence has to check: provenance you can't take on faith, security patterns that fail in AI-typical ways, and a bus factor that often rounds to zero.
The Due-Diligence Read is a fixed-price, five-day read: I walk the codebase the way I've walked fintech and healthcare systems for 20 years, and you get a memo written for an investment decision, not a code review.
What the memo covers
- Provenance & maintainability
- How it was built, how much only the founder understands, what a new team could realistically take over.
- Risk that affects the deal
- Auth and tenant isolation, data handling, secrets, the failure modes that become liabilities after closing.
- Remediation cost
- What fixing the material issues would take, in weeks and dollars, so it can be priced into the deal.
- A verdict
- Sound / sound-with-conditions / structural concerns, in one page your partners will actually read.
$1,500
fixed • 5 business days • NDA standard
Tight timeline? Say so in the email: diligence windows get priority over the teardown queue. Repeat-flow investors: ask about a per-deal arrangement.
Who's doing the reading: Dan Podina, 20 years in fintech, healthcare, and SaaS backends; founder of GQLTeam. Full background →