Infrastructure evaluation on deal timelines.

Acquisitions, investments, and leadership transitions share a common blind spot: the infrastructure behind the product. Revenue projections assume the systems will hold. They often will not without work no one has budgeted for.

I evaluate what is actually running, not what the org chart says is running.

• Infrastructure inventory. Every host, VM, cloud resource, network path, and integration point. Documented and mapped against stated architecture.
• Technical debt quantification. End-of-life systems, unsupported configurations, deferred maintenance, and accumulated drift scored by remediation cost and business impact.
• Security and compliance risk scoring. Identity hygiene, patch posture, backup integrity, and regulatory exposure. Findings rated by exploitability and blast radius.
• Integration complexity assessment. What breaks if you merge tenants, consolidate tooling, or migrate platforms. Hidden dependencies surfaced before they become post-close surprises.
• 12-month operational cost projection. What the environment actually costs to stabilize and maintain, not what the current team estimates from memory.

The output is built for decision-makers. Executive summary first, technical appendix behind it.

• Anatomy of a Rescue: What a stabilization engagement looks like when the infrastructure has already failed. The same assessment methodology applies before close, when there is still time to price the risk.

• Five Signs Your Infrastructure Is Unstable: The five patterns I screen for in every due diligence engagement. If more than two are present, the stabilization budget needs its own line item.

• Manufacturing IT Failures: Patterns from the Floor: Infrastructure failures in operational environments where downtime has direct production cost. Due diligence in these settings requires physical and logical assessment.