IT due diligence when selling a business
Technology due diligence isn't really a technical exercise. It's a risk and cost exercise dressed up as one. Buyers want to understand what they're inheriting: ageing systems, single points of failure, vendor dependency, and the deferred upgrades and workarounds that will eventually need addressing.
What a buyer's IT due diligence covers
• A full asset register, every piece of hardware, software and licensing the business relies on;
• Your own RMM and PSA platforms, including contract and licensing terms;
• Systems architecture;
• Vendor contracts;
• Data portability.
Where this catches sellers out
It's genuinely rare for a business, or its advisers, to have a buyer ready view of its own technology estate, mainly because nobody in the owner's circle of advisers has ever worked in IT. The scale of the work varies hugely by business, but the approach is consistent: build the asset register once, keep it current, and treat it as a living document rather than a one off exercise before a sale.
How MSP Sale Readiness helps
This is the one area where direction can come from hands on experience of running an MSP, not from a generic checklist someone else wrote. We check your asset register, systems architecture and vendor contracts against what a buyer will expect to see, and flag the gaps, turning one of the most opaque areas of due diligence into one of the most straightforward.
Ready to get your IT due diligence in shape?
Want a quick sense of where you stand on IT? The free readiness assessment covers IT alongside the other eight areas in about three minutes.