The technology side
of the deal.

Technology due diligence, separation, and integration for mergers, acquisitions, and divestments, including the day-one plan for identity, email, and data. It is for organisations buying, selling, or splitting a business, where IT sits on the critical path and is rarely planned early enough.

During diligence, not after completion. Technology routinely turns up findings that affect the price or the terms: licences that do not transfer with the entity, systems past end of support, a domain registered to a director personally, undocumented custom development maintained by one contractor, or an unresolved security incident. All of those are cheaper to discover before you sign.

Day one needs to work immediately, and full separation typically runs for months afterwards. The usual shape is a transitional services arrangement where the seller keeps providing certain systems for an agreed period while the new entity stands up its own. Getting that period and its exit criteria right in the sale agreement matters considerably more than most parties expect.

Email and identity, so people can sign in and be reached. Access to the files they need to do today’s work. Phones answering. The finance system able to invoice. Almost everything else can wait a fortnight, and trying to do everything at completion is how day one goes badly.

Licensing that is not transferable or is simply under-purchased. Key person dependency, where one individual holds the knowledge and the credentials. End-of-support systems that need immediate capital. Unresolved security exposure. And documentation that turns out to describe an environment from four years ago. None are unusual, and all are negotiable if found in time.

We quote after scoping rather than before. Anyone pricing this work without looking at your environment is guessing, and the guess is rarely in your favour. Scoping itself is quick, and we tell you what it costs before we start it.

A first conversation takes about half an hour and costs nothing. Scoping is usually a week or two of our time depending on the size of the environment, and we agree the delivery dates with you before anything is booked in.

Yes, and it is common. We are happy to work as an extra pair of hands under your internal team, or alongside an incumbent provider on a defined piece of work. We will set out in writing where the responsibilities split, so nothing falls between us.

No. This can be delivered as a standalone piece of work for an organisation we have never worked with before, or folded into a managed agreement if you already have one with us. Plenty of clients use us for one thing and keep everything else where it is.

Our team is based in Auckland and we attend sites across the wider region. Most of this work is delivered remotely, so we support organisations throughout New Zealand, and we will say up front where being on site genuinely matters.

Named people, not a queue. You get a lead who knows your environment and stays with it, which is the difference between explaining your business once and explaining it every time you make contact.

You keep the documentation regardless, and anything registered in your name stays in your name. Whether we stay involved is your call. Some clients take it in house from there, others move it onto an ongoing agreement with us. We would rather you left cleanly than stayed because leaving was difficult.