Pricing — Assay

Screen

$15,000

fixed fee · LOI stage · days to memo

Key-person and bus-factor analysis from the full commit history
License contamination at HEAD and transitively, resolved from the lockfile
Secret-exposure scan across tracked files and git history, redacted and cited
Dependency inventory with a CycloneDX SBOM; known advisories matched from a dated snapshot
Infrastructure posture from the target's own IaC: backups, exposure, resilience, EOL runtimes
Code-quality signals: tests, CI, churn×ownership hotspots
Graded memo: deal recommendation, confidence per finding, explicit gaps section
Indicative remediation cost in engineer-days, with every assumption printed
Sealed run record — the exact revision examined, verifiable later
Runs on the seller's machine — code never leaves their control

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Screen + AI-claims verification

$25–35k

scoped to the target's AI surface

Everything in Screen
AI-claims substantiation: the target's claims traced against its actual code
Human demo-tracing session — does the value path really run through the model?
Model, data-rights, and margin reality check
Follow-up session with your deal team

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Assay Ready Sell-side

Scoped

for companies preparing to be acquired

The same engine a buyer runs, pointed at your own code
Remediation punch-list ordered by negotiating cost, not by fix difficulty
Each item names what a buyer reads into it and how to close it
Re-screen before the process with a delta showing what changed

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Delta re-screen

Add-on

between LOI and close

Compares the closing revision against your original screen
New findings, severity moves, and metric drift, cited as always
Catches code dumped in or dependencies added during diligence
A signal that disappeared is reported as no longer detected — never as fixed

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Where a screen fits — and where it doesn't

A full technical audit from a name-brand firm runs $50k–250k+ and several weeks. For a nine-figure deal, buy one. A screen is the instrument for the stage before that: it clears the deal, prices a finding into the negotiation, or tells you the expensive audit is warranted — before you've spent its budget.

Assay is deliberately additive, not a replacement: findings arrive cited to the file and commit, so anything we flag hands straight to your counsel, your auditors, or the management meeting.

What every memo includes, at either tier

A deal recommendation on a deterministic scale — PROCEED to RED-FLAG — that maps mechanically from the evidence.
Every finding cited to what proves it, with typed confidence.
An explicit "not assessed" section. Absence is a gap, never a clean bill.
The questions your team should put to management, drawn from the findings.