Architecture Review
Scalability: Can the system handle 10x current load?
Security: Are there OWASP top-10 vulnerabilities?
Data architecture: Is the data model well-designed?
API design: Is there a clear, versioned API?
Monitoring: Is there observability (logs, metrics, traces)?
Engineering Team Assessment
Commit velocity (GitDealFlow): How fast does the team ship?
Contributor growth (GitDealFlow): Is the team scaling?
Code quality: Review a sample of recent pull requests
Tech stack: Is it appropriate for the problem?
Developer experience: Are CI/CD, testing, and deployment automated?
Technical Debt Assessment
How much technical debt exists? Is it documented?
Is the team proactively refactoring or just adding features?
What's the on-call rotation and incident response?
Are there single points of failure in the team (bus factor)?
Frequently Asked Questions
Can non-technical investors do tech DD?
Yes, with a technical advisor. Use GitDealFlow for the engineering velocity assessment — it's an objective, non-technical-required signal.