Technology Due Diligence for M&A in Friendswood
Before you buy a company, you should know what its technology will cost you after closing. We assess the systems, the security posture, the contracts, and the accumulated debt, then put an integration number in front of you while the price is still negotiable.
The Problem
Deals in this part of the Houston area are often closed on financials and relationships, with technology treated as a detail to sort out later. Then the acquiring owner discovers that the target ran on a server past end of support, that the practice management data cannot be exported without paying the incumbent vendor, that half the staff shared one login, or that a contract carries a change of control clause with a fee attached. Sometimes the discovery is worse: an unreported email compromise or a ransomware event that was quietly paid and never disclosed. By that point the purchase price is fixed and every remediation dollar comes out of the buyer's return.
The Solution
We run a structured pre-close review of the target: infrastructure and its remaining life, cloud tenants and identity hygiene, security controls and incident history, software licensing and transferability, contracts with change of control terms, key person dependency, and the state of the data you are actually buying. The deliverable is written for a buyer and a lender, not for an engineer: findings ranked by dollar impact, a first year integration budget, and the specific items worth raising at the negotiating table. Diligence runs remotely under NDA on a compressed timeline, and because Friendswood is inside our Houston metro service area we can be on site for a facility walk-through and management interviews when the process allows it. Fees are fixed and scoped on a discovery call.
Core Responsibilities
What We Examine
Commercial Exposure
What You Receive
Engagement Process
Scope and Access
We agree on deal timeline, confidentiality, and what access the seller will grant. Most reviews start with documents and interviews, since sellers are understandably careful about deep technical access before a deal is certain.
Evidence Gathering
We work through infrastructure records, license agreements, vendor contracts, security documentation, and management interviews. Where access allows, we validate claims directly rather than accepting a questionnaire response at face value.
Quantify the Gap
Every material finding gets an estimated remediation or integration cost and a timing window. This is the section your deal team uses, because it converts technical problems into figures that belong in a model.
Report and Debrief
We deliver the written report and walk your deal team through it, including which findings justify a price conversation and which are simply post-close work. If the deal proceeds, the integration plan is already written.
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Common Questions
We are acquiring a small practice, not a large company. Is diligence worth it?
Small acquisitions are where undocumented technology hurts most, because there is rarely an internal IT person who knows what exists. A short scoped review on a practice or professional firm is inexpensive relative to the purchase price and typically pays for itself in one finding about data portability or licensing.
How fast can this be completed?
We scope to the deal calendar and can compress the review considerably when access is granted promptly. The limiting factor is almost always how quickly the seller produces contracts, license records, and time with the person who knows the systems.
We are the seller. Should we do this before going to market?
It is often the better use of the money. A sell-side technology review lets you fix the obvious problems, document what you have, and avoid a buyer discovering issues at the worst possible moment. It also removes an easy lever for a price reduction late in the process.
Does the review cover HIPAA or client confidentiality exposure?
Yes, and for healthcare targets around Friendswood that section usually matters most. We look at how protected information is stored and shared, whether business associate agreements exist, whether prior incidents were assessed properly, and what liability may follow the entity through the transaction. We report what we find; your counsel decides how it affects the deal terms.
Can you also run the integration after we close?
We can, and the diligence work makes that faster because the plan and inventory already exist. It is also fine to hand the report to your existing provider or internal team. The report is written to be usable by someone else, and we price diligence and integration separately.
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Friendswood sits in the middle of an active small-deal market, which is why this service comes up here more than its population would suggest. Healthcare consolidation is the clearest example: dental, optometry, dermatology, physical therapy, and primary care practices along the FM 528 corridor and toward Clear Lake are regularly bought by groups, by private investors, or by a younger partner buying out a retiring founder. Every one of those transactions involves patient data, practice management software with restrictive export terms, and HIPAA obligations that do not disappear at closing. Professional services firms follow the same pattern, with accounting, insurance, title, and engineering offices merging or selling books of business, often carrying client files that live in one person's mailbox. The engineering, machining, and staffing companies that serve Clear Lake aerospace employers add another wrinkle, because their customer agreements can include confidentiality and security expectations that a new owner inherits without ever having read them. Retail and franchise operations near the Baybrook Mall area trade regularly as well, where point of sale contracts, payment processing agreements, and franchise system requirements determine what a buyer actually gets. In all of these cases the seller is usually not hiding anything. There simply was never anyone whose job was to know, and the buyer becomes the first person to find out.
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