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Your deal team just finished reviewing a promising SaaS acquisition target. Revenue is growing. Churn is low. The product demo is clean. Technical due diligence came back with decent test coverage, no critical CVEs, and a modern tech stack.
You close the deal. Three months later, your integration team tells you the codebase needs six months of restructuring before it can support the roadmap. The code looks professional on the surface but falls apart under real engineering scrutiny. Nobody can explain why the architecture is the way it is β because nobody designed it. An AI did.
This is happening right now, across the venture and PE landscape. And most deal teams arenβt equipped to catch it.
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