Everything below is looked at through the lens of the deal rationale and business objectives — not as a technology audit, but as an assessment of whether the technology supports the investment case and what it means operationally post-close.
What a typical engagement covers
Adjusted for the deal, not a template.
Technology direction and investment priorities relative to where the business is going. IT infrastructure and operations. Cybersecurity posture. Application architecture and tech debt. Integration or separation complexity. How the technology function is organized and run. Vendor dependencies. Data and AI readiness.
Not all of these show up on every deal. The scoping tool on akansh.io lets you define what matters for your specific transaction before alignment conversations — you tell it what kind of deal, what you know about the target, and what you want assessed. It generates a scope document, data request list, and engagement letter. The point is that those first conversations focus on what matters instead of spending cycles figuring out where to start.
QofE coordination
On engagements where tech costs are material to the earnings story, I work directly alongside your financial DD team. That means normalized IT run-rates, recurring vs one-time tech spend, R&D capitalization treatment, platform migration P&L impact — built into the QofE, not handed over in a separate report that nobody reconciles.
Fees
Fixed-fee range based on deal parameters, scoped upfront. Not hourly. For deals that need a fast read first, a one-week tech review is available at a flat fee.