Technology Due Diligence for M&A in Spring
Before you buy a company, you should know what its technology will cost you after closing. We assess the systems, the security posture, the deferred maintenance, and the real price of integration, then put it in writing your deal team can act on. The work is remote-first, with on-site visits to Spring facilities when the target has a plant, a yard, or a clinic worth walking.
The Problem
Deals around Spring often involve companies that grew up as vendors to the energy majors, as trade contractors along the Grand Parkway, or as clinics and dental groups on the north side. Their financials get scrubbed hard. Their technology usually gets a fifteen minute conversation with an owner who says everything is fine. Then the buyer inherits an unsupported server in a closet, licensing that was never bought properly, a network the seller's nephew built, and customer data that has been sitting in one person's inbox for nine years. The surprises land in the first ninety days, after the wire has cleared and the price is fixed.
The Solution
Sentinel-Pros runs the technology side of your diligence the way your accountant runs quality of earnings. We inventory what actually exists, test the claims in the seller's data room, price the work required to bring the environment to a defensible standard, and separate what must be fixed before day one from what can wait a year. Access is read-only and interviews are scheduled around the target's operation, and because Spring sits inside our Houston service area we can be on-site when a physical walkthrough matters. You receive a findings report, a costed remediation plan, and language your attorney can use in reps, warranties, and price adjustment.
Core Responsibilities
Environment and Asset Review
Security and Compliance Exposure
Integration Cost and Deal Support
Engagement Process
Scope and Access
We agree what is in scope, sign the confidentiality terms the seller requires, and request read-only access plus the data room items we need. No disruption to the target's staff beyond scheduled interviews.
Discovery
We inventory systems, interview the people who actually run them, and test claims rather than accepting them. Where a Spring site needs eyes on the rack or the shop floor, we schedule a visit from Houston.
Analysis and Costing
Every finding gets a severity, an owner, and a dollar figure. We separate pre-close blockers from first year capital and from work that can honestly wait.
Report and Debrief
You receive a written report and a working session with your deal team. We stay available through closing for follow up questions and for drafting technology language in the purchase agreement.
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Common Questions
How long does technology due diligence take?
Most engagements for a company in the 10 to 150 employee range run two to three weeks from access to final report. Speed depends far more on how quickly the seller grants access than on our workload. If your letter of intent has a tight exclusivity window, tell us the deadline on the first call and we will scope to it.
The seller will not give us access before closing. Can you still help?
Yes, though the findings carry more caveats. We can work from the data room, structured interviews with the seller's staff, external reconnaissance that requires no cooperation, and vendor contracts. We label clearly what was verified and what was merely asserted, so your deal team knows where the remaining risk sits.
We are buying a small trade contractor, not a software company. Is this worth it?
Usually yes, because the technology risk in a contractor is rarely the software. It is the estimating spreadsheet on one laptop, the job photo archive that was never backed up, and the fact that every customer relationship lives in one email account. Those are cheap to fix before closing and expensive to discover afterward.
Do you also handle the integration after we close?
We can, and many buyers keep us on through the first year. There is no requirement to do so. If you would rather hand the plan to an internal team or another provider, the report is written to be usable by anyone competent.
Will the seller know you are digging?
The seller knows an outside technology reviewer is part of your diligence, the same way they know about your accountants. We work through your deal counsel, follow whatever access protocol the process letter sets, and we do not contact the target's employees or vendors without your approval.
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BOOK A CONSULTATIONTechnology Due Diligence for M&A for Spring, Texas
Spring sits at the north end of the Houston deal corridor, and the businesses changing hands here reflect that. The ExxonMobil campus at Springwoods Village pulled a supply chain north with it: engineering shops, inspection and testing firms, industrial services companies, and staffing outfits that live on a small number of large contracts. Those companies are attractive targets precisely because of who they serve, and that same customer list is what makes their technology risk material. A buyer inheriting a supplier to a major operator also inherits that operator's security questionnaire, its data handling expectations, and its right to audit. Around Old Town Spring and the I-45 and Grand Parkway interchange the pattern differs: family owned trade contractors, dental and medical practices, and retail groups where the owner is the system administrator, the bookkeeper, and the only person who knows the passwords. When that owner leaves at closing, undocumented knowledge leaves with them. CityPlace and the surrounding office space have drawn smaller professional firms whose entire operation runs inside a cloud tenant nobody has ever audited. In all three cases the question is the same and rarely asked early enough: what will it cost, in the first year after closing, to make this environment defensible.
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