What is Technical Diligence?
Checking whether a startup's technology works as claimed and can scale. For an AI company, that means asking what is built in-house, which model it runs on, how it is evaluated and what each task costs.
4 claims tested · 3 hold · cost is higher
Technical diligence checks…
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In real work
During technical diligence, Arjun asked the contract-review startup for its eval results and its inference cost per document, then compared both with the demo.
In the illustration
With the casing off, the test probe touches four tagged points in turn: the in-house parts, the model plate, the eval gauge and the cost-per-task meter. Three lamps confirm the claim tags; the cost meter reads above its tag.
Draft technical diligence questions in your deal notebook for the AI startup described below: what is built in-house, which model it runs on, how it is evaluated and what each task costs. Mark the answers that need proof.
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