By NakodaX Marketing team
NakodaX ·
NakodaX blog/Source Protection·2 min read
When the acquirer wants to see the code
Technical due diligence means sharing source code with a company that may not buy you. Review need not leave an ordinary working copy behind.
Diligence should support a real evaluation, with a defined end to access if the deal does not proceed.
A serious acquirer asks to review the code. That is reasonable. It is also a moment when a company can hand a competitor a copy it cannot take back.
The deal may close. If it does not, the question is what remains on the other side.
The leftover copy is the risk
Repository access, a screen share, and a zip in a data room each trade speed for exposure. They do not change what happens once readable code is copied out.
Diligence needs a complete evaluation. It does not need an indefinite, readable handover if the transaction ends.
Diligence is more than code
Transactions also involve contracts, financial models, architecture documents, and customer information. Those should have clear recipient, expiry, and revocation decisions of their own.
No control can retrieve details somebody has already copied, photographed, or learned. The value is reducing the ordinary leftover file problem before it begins.
A better transaction posture
A seller should be able to share enough for a serious evaluation without treating a failed deal as an irreversible transfer. The buyer gets a cleaner review process; the seller keeps a defined end to access.
The takeaway
Share properly. Decide what happens when the process ends.
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