Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
Around October 2020, we saw a sudden influx of investments into companies claiming they had unique artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML)…
Periodically, our clients ask us about the accounting treatment for the software development costs to develop the services they sell and the sites they use for…
One of the most viewed articles on the AKF Partners website is Technology Due Diligence Checklists. That post is based on a tool we use during technical due…
One of the most common questions we get asked is, “What are the most common technical failures you see development and product teams make?” To answer this…
How to Prepare for a Technical Due Diligence
In many of our technical due diligence engagements, it is common to find that companies are building tools with considerable development effort (and ongoing…
For over a decade, AKF has been on a number of engagements where we have seen technology organizations put off a large portion of engineering effort wrangling…
The two most common types of technology due diligence requests we see at AKF are
“Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It’s what the customer gets out of it.” Peter Drucker
As part of our Technical Due Diligence and Architectural reviews, we always want to see a company’s system architecture, understand their process, and review…
The Scalability Cube – Your Guide to Evaluating Scalability
In our technical due diligence reviews we conduct for investment firms, we see five common mistakes by both young startups and in well-seasoned companies…
