Example · Investor or investment team
Which long-term dependencies should our diligence examine?
An investor examines the support commitments behind an implanted communication platform
The situation
An implant beyond the breakthrough
A fictional company is seeking capital to expand an implanted BCI platform for communication. Its proposal also describes possible future autonomy and cognitive applications. You are preparing technical diligence, with access to its assessment, and need to separate evidence for the present use from promises about performance and continuity
What this example starts with
- Available
- The proposal describes an implant, evolving software and cloud-supported decoding
- Unresolved
- Maintenance arrangements, security evidence and support after ownership changes remain to be examined
- Constraint
- The present assessment cannot validate every future application described in the expansion narrative
Working through the question
Separate the claims
Read the Project Briefing against the proposal. Distinguish demonstrated communication outcomes from planned capabilities, and performance claims from support claims. Ask which people, conditions and observation periods the supplied evidence covers before carrying a result into the expansion discussion
Examine continued dependence
Trace what must remain available for a person to keep using the system: hardware maintenance, software updates, decoding services and clinical support. Inspect the evidence behind these arrangements. Company viability, data access and cybersecurity questions require direct diligence beyond a summary assessment
Explore a changed situation
Consider an acquisition, service interruption or company failure as a hypothetical change. Ask what happens to updates, clinical contacts, data portability and removal or replacement support. Use applicable assessment controls where relevant, keeping your additional diligence scenarios and assumptions explicit
An illustrative take-away
A continuity diligence agenda
Your note identifies commitments that need evidence and specialist review before the investment team reaches its own judgment
- Who maintains essential services if the company changes hands?
- What independent security evidence covers updates and cloud dependencies?
- Which new intended uses would require a fresh assessment?
Written for this example to show what the reader could take into their next conversation
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