For investors & acquirers
Don't fund a demo that won't survive production.
AI tools let small teams build impressive products very quickly. Find out whether there's an engineering foundation under the pitch before you write the cheque.
Reviewed personally by a software developer with 25 years' enterprise experience and 10 years of cloud architecture for local and international corporate clients.
What we verify
The questions a pitch deck doesn't answer
Scalability
Will the architecture handle 10× the users, or does growth mean a rewrite?
Technical debt
How much of the codebase is generated, unreviewed and untested, and what will it cost to fix?
Team dependency
Is critical knowledge held by one founder or one AI chat history? Could a new engineer take over?
Vendor risk
How exposed is the product to a single AI provider, platform or hosting vendor?
Unit cost
What do cloud and AI API costs look like per customer, and do the margins hold at scale?
Security posture
Are customer data, credentials and access controls handled to a standard you can defend?
Scoped to your deal
Technical Due Diligence
from R48,000
A full Production Readiness Review of the target, plus scalability, technical debt, maintainability, team dependency, vendor risk and unit-cost analysis.
- Logical & physical architecture
- Data flow & system context diagrams
- Authentication, authorisation & secrets review
- Infrastructure, logging & monitoring review
Priced on scope: number of systems, codebase size and deal timeline. We agree a fixed fee before any access is granted. Prices in ZAR; Bronkode is not currently VAT-registered.
Request a due diligence callExecutive summary
A short, non-technical view of risk, readiness and what it will cost to fix.
Technical report
Detailed findings with evidence and remediation guidance the founding team can act on.
Risk heatmap
Findings grouped by severity across all six pillars of our framework.
Built for
Investors, acquirers & scale-ups
Angels, VCs, incubators, accelerators and corporate acquirers evaluating AI-first products.
Timing
Matches deal timelines
Typically around 10 business days from access. Tell us your deadline and we'll confirm the timeline before we start.
Discretion
Confidential by default
We're happy to sign an NDA with you and the target company before we get repository access.
Evaluating an AI-first startup?
Book a call to scope the due diligence and agree a timeline that fits your deal.