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No audit trails
Transactions and user actions with no immutable log. Investors and regulators both require complete traceability from day one.
−20-35% valuation
Most startups don't fail diligence because the product is weak, they fail because the codebase, audit trails, governance and documentation were never built to institutional standards. NX Scale closes that gap before the term sheet arrives.
Technical diligence ends more rounds than financial diligence. The same six failure modes appear again and again, each one with a measurable cost to your valuation.
Transactions and user actions with no immutable log. Investors and regulators both require complete traceability from day one.
Critical or high vulnerabilities, NCA ECC gaps, PDPL data-handling failures, any one can pause a round indefinitely.
A stack that can't support the growth model in your deck. Investors run the math, if it doesn't hold, neither does the deal.
No decision records, no runbooks. DD teams read absent docs as absent knowledge, and price the key-man risk accordingly.
Below 60% signals institutional risk. A codebase that can't be verified can't be valued with confidence.
No change management, no access control, no vendor-risk framework. Capital at scale requires governance evidence.
Not a report, a systematic engineering intervention that closes every gap across code, infrastructure, governance and documentation.
From your first institutional round to the technical disclosure requirements of a Tadawul listing, scope scales with the stage.
Architecture foundation and security baseline before first institutional money.
Full DD prep, audit trails, governance, scalability, documentation.
Enterprise controls, cross-border compliance, board-level reporting.
Buy-side integration readiness and M&A data-room engineering.
Tadawul Main Market disclosure and SOX-equivalent controls.
Every engagement carries a 90-day post-delivery guarantee. If a technical DD process surfaces an in-scope critical finding after we certify your stack, we remediate it at zero cost.
Ideally 3-6 months before your anticipated close. That allows time to audit, remediate and document without compressing your fundraising timeline. Engagements with 8+ weeks of lead time consistently outperform crisis-mode work started after the term sheet lands.
That's exactly who NX Scale is for. The scorecard surfaces every gap and we scope remediation accordingly. Severely distressed codebases typically reach investor-ready status in 10-16 weeks; we give you an honest timeline up front.
Increasingly yes, and international co-investors always do. Regional funds have built structured technical DD capabilities, and any round with a US, UK or EU co-investor brings institutional standards. The era of soft technical DD is ending.
Our 90-day guarantee covers exactly that, in-scope findings are remediated at no cost. We make the commitment contractually binding rather than simply stating confidence.
Yes, both buy-side and sell-side. For acquisitions we also offer technical integration readiness assessments evaluating how two stacks merge with minimum disruption.
Request a complimentary preliminary assessment. We'll review your codebase overview and return an honest baseline DD score, no obligation.
We usually reply within one business day