What Signal looks at
The diligence work the IC actually wants — not a hundred-page deck of red-amber-green, but the six or seven decisions that will move the deal.
01
Eval coverage
Are the company's own evaluations exercising what it ships? Coverage gaps that the seller's deck won't show.
02
Secrets & credentials
Static and dynamic scans of secret hygiene, key rotation, and credential reuse across environments.
03
Vendor lock-in
Where the business's continuity depends on a single model, embedding provider, or cloud — and what the migration cost looks like.
04
Model provenance
Which models were used, how they were fine-tuned, whose data trained them, and what the licensing actually permits at exit.
05
IP & data rights
Customer-data flows mapped against contracts. Where the company has the rights it claims — and where it does not.
06
Scalability stress points
The two or three points where the system breaks at the new owner's scale, with order-of-magnitude remediation estimates.