The deliverable
Most technology diligence is a checklist that ends in a color. A PRISM read ends in a deal action. This page shows the anatomy of the deliverable (the sections, the scoring, the classification, and the evidence discipline) without the substance of any one engagement. The full sample report goes out after a first conversation.
Illustrative composite: not derived from any single engagement.
What is inside
A full-scope PRISM report runs the same spine every time. Every finding in Sections 4 through 11 lands in a single rated register in Section 13, so nothing observed gets lost between the read and the deal. The section list itself is the fastest way to see the depth:
How it is scored
Each of the five PRISM dimensions is scored 0 to 100 and rolls into a composite that places the asset in a band. The band is a read, not a grade: it tells the sponsor what the technology means for the deal, from an asset worth paying for to a risk that has to be priced or walked.
Can the technology support the investment thesis?
What technology risks create financial exposure?
Can the platform scale with the plan?
Can the data create value?
Can this team deliver the thesis?
How every finding is classified
Illustrative composite: representative findings, de-identified.
Every material finding is assigned a transaction classification, a timeline, and a confidence level, so it maps to a decision rather than sitting as an observation. One representative example of each classification:
A flat network across the plants means a single compromised office endpoint reaches the plant floor. This is resolved or contractually protected before close: validated interim controls, a funded remediation plan, an accountable owner, and appropriate escrow or holdback.
One acquired site runs an unsupported, unintegrated legacy system that forces a manual monthly consolidation. The remediation cost and the integration exposure change the offer through purchase price, escrow, or indemnity, not the post-close plan.
The underwritten operating-margin improvement depends on shop-floor visibility and scrap reduction the current stack cannot produce as it stands. A Phase 1 systems investment is a prerequisite to the value creation plan, not a discretionary upgrade.
Once shop-floor data capture is standardized, machine-vision defect detection and predictive maintenance become quantifiable operating upside. It is modeled, then excluded from base underwriting until a pilot validates it: upside earned, not assumed.
The discipline underneath
Confidence reflects how an estimate was derived, not how serious the finding is. It is what separates a number a sponsor can underwrite from a number that needs a named validation step before it moves purchase price.
High confidence
Grounded in direct invoices, current vendor pricing, unit counts, contractual terms, or management-validated operating data.
Medium confidence
Suitable for initial underwriting, but the report names the specific validation step required before the figure is used for final price, escrow, or capital-plan decisions.
Low confidence
A directional scenario, flagged as such, that should not be included in base underwriting.
What we did not assess
A serious read is as clear about its edges as its findings. Every report states plainly what was reviewed, what was not independently validated, and which specialist workstreams sit outside the technology scope (environmental and legal, asset-condition engineering, commercial diligence, and financial-statement diligence), so the sponsor sees exactly where confirmatory work still belongs and who owns it.
One read, up top
Illustrative composite excerpt.
A composite mid-market precision-manufacturing platform, assessed for a buy-and-build thesis. The technology estate is functional and has supported steady performance, but it was built incrementally across three decades and one tuck-in acquisition without a unifying architecture, and it was not built to carry the margin-improvement thesis the sponsor is underwriting. Composite PRISM Score: 45 / 100, Technology Risk. This places the target in the band where priced remediation is required and the 100-day plan is critical to whether the investment thesis is achievable on the underwritten timeline. Recommendation: proceed with conditions.
Honest answers
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