Series B TDD Rehearsal Sprint
The founder's pre-raise rehearsal - distinct from the auditor's lens. Walk the tech narrative end-to-end, stress-test the data-room, and hand your team an objection-handling playbook before the lead investor's DD partner arrives.
2 weeks (1 sprint)
Who this is for
Series B founders and CEOs at 50-150 person B2B SaaS companies, 9-18 months from raise, with post-Series-A tech debt accumulated and a board-pressured AI story. Sell-side founders preparing for trade-sale tech DD where the acquirer is strategic.
When you need it
You have 9-18 months until your Series B raise. You know the lead investor's DD partner will probe the architecture, the burn-multiple-to-tech-decisions link, the AI story, and the engineering org's velocity. You have one shot to walk them through it cleanly. Sprint 08 is the auditor's lens; this is the founder's rehearsal lens.
What's delivered
- Rehearsal narrative for the tech section + AI section + engineering-org section, walkable end-to-end
- Objection-handling playbook: 3-5 most likely hostile questions with defensible answers and the evidence behind each
- Tech-section data-room dry run: gap memo, missing artefacts, and a sequenced fix list
- Go / no-go memo on raise timing - written to the founder, not the auditor
Why this consultant
Three M&A due-diligence processes including Bitstamp → Robinhood. Sprint 08 (Acquisition Tech DD) is for buyers and sellers in process; this is for founders rehearsing for the moment when the auditor arrives.
What this sprint is not
- An actual tech due-diligence audit (that's Sprint 08 for buy-side or sell-side processes that are genuinely live)
- Board narrative or fundraising deck work (this is the engineering substance the CFO can't write)
- Post-raise governance (Tech Board Member / NED engagement picks up that lane after the round closes)
Fixed price, fixed scope. Every engagement carries the four guarantees: Sprint 1 Escape Hatch, Board-Ready Quality, Three-Client Cap, Skin-in-the-Game Pledge.