Access is a commodity. Judgment is scarce.
Pre-deal technical DD, post-investment protection, and capital markets advisory for deep-tech, hardware, and critical operating environments. We sell a kill rate — not access.
What sets us apart
What most advisors sell
- Warm intros — founders to funds, funds to founders
- Credentials from a software exit and a bench of mates
- Access that’s easy to copy: bolt on a hardware specialist and the edge dies
What we sell
- A filter on your pipeline — which claims survive reality
- A kill rate — which three deals to drop this week
- Operator read, not auditor read — we have run these businesses
- Compounds: every screen sharpens the next. Cannot be bolted on.
Two Products. One Seat.
A screen before the cheque. A seat after it.
Pre-deal Technical DD
Send us the technical claims. We tell you whether the system survives its final environment — mine site, plant, defence program, customer workflow — and whether it can make revenue and profit there.
Post-investment Protection
Board observer or retained technical advisor for 12–36 months. Milestone reviews, hiring calls, vendor challenges, follow-on DD. Turns a one-off screen into a seat next to the cheque.
From prospectus to models to investor engagement.
We help deep-tech and hardware companies navigate the full capital journey — from getting the story right and the numbers defensible, to standing in front of the right investors with the right people beside you.
Prospectus & Disclosure
Investor-grade technical narratives. We have created company visions and authored detailed prospectuses for listing — we know what technical claims survive scrutiny and which ones kill deals.
Financial & Operating Models
From lean business canvas to detailed operating and financial models. Prospectus-ready, board-ready, and investor-ready. Built by operators, not consultants.
Investor Engagement
Pre-IPO investor introductions, engagement strategy, and ongoing communication. We connect technology vision to investor appetite — pre-listing and post.
What We Bring
We read strategy, engineering and execution the way operators do — because we have run these businesses, not just audited them.
Deep-tech & hardware
Not software-only advisors. Hands-on across hardware, controls, safety and systems engineering — plus the software layer above it.
Critical operating environments
Defence, energy, mining, industrial. Technology that has to survive contact with the real world and still make money.
Legal & contract fluency
The commercial and contractual detail that determines whether a deal, JV or program actually holds together.
Finance & governance
Top of class Corporate Finance, MBA, board-director experience. Fluency in what a business needs to survive and scale.
Rapid tech & team read
Whether the technology works — and whether the team behind it is functioning. People dynamics are usually the real story.
Complex engineering teams
25+ years building and leading large, multi-discipline engineering teams. Not solo contributors coaching from the sideline.
Investors. Founders. Acquirers.
We work with investors and acquirers who need real technical judgment — before the deal, after it, or across a portfolio.
Venture & Growth Equity
You need to know if the technology holds up before you sign. We run pre-deal technical due diligence for deep-tech, hardware, and critical infrastructure investments.
Start a screen →Private Equity
You’ve made the investment. Now you need to protect it. We work alongside portfolio companies post-investment — identifying technology risk before it surfaces as a value problem.
Protect your portfolio →Corporate & M&A Teams
You’re acquiring a technology business. Don’t fly blind. We provide the independent technical layer that legal and financial advisors can’t.
Talk to us about your deal →The Pack
Eight questions. 70–80% of the report is systematised.
Systems & architecture
Critical requirements and functionality. What actually has to work in the field.
Commercial & IP
Market, traction economics, contracts, chain of title.
Safety, security & compliance
Safety and governance first to de-risk single-event reputation destroyers.
Traction speed
Models, assumptions, customer validation, final operating environment.
People & machines
Aces in their places. Right people at the right stage.
Roadmap vs thesis
Does the technical plan match the story you are buying.
Red-flag register
Each flag translated into valuation, hold period, or walk.
Strategic environment
Capital markets, listed path, M&A and strategic partners.
Output: one IC-ready report. If you take the post-close seat, a 90-day technical plan falls out of the same work.
Fixed on early rounds.
Basis points when the cheque is real.
Transparent pricing. No retainers before we have earned them.
| Stage | Shape | Indicative fee |
|---|---|---|
| Seed screen | Fixed | A$7,500 |
| Series A | Fixed | A$12,500 |
| Series B+ | Fixed or bps | A$20,000+ |
| Growth / large round | 7.5–10 bps of round | A$50–100k on A$50–100m |
| Pipeline retainer | Monthly, unlimited screens | A$3–5k / month |
| Post-close protection | Observer / advisor seat | A$6–15k / month |
Fees are indicative. Shape is always agreed before work begins. Early-round pricing reflects the value of building a relationship before the cheque gets large.
Send us one live deal.
Not a coffee to explore synergies. One set of technical claims. We will tell you whether they survive.
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