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AI Due Diligence: What Your Standard DD is Missing

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AI-native targets trade at six to nine times revenue against five to seven times for comparable SaaS, and 83% of PE buyers already pay the premium. Yet only one in four evaluated targets is genuinely AI-driven. The rest is a chatbot, ascore, or a wrapper. Standard due diligence was never built to testwhether the AI is real, durable, or compliant. ​

This Tech Bite sets out a dual-lens framework. AI in the product and AI in the operating model and three moves to run before the next IC paper: replicate the claim, map the AI estate before LOI, and scoreboth lenses. ​

What you skip becomes the write-down at exit.

 

 

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