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Due Diligence
The investigation before buying a business.
What is Due Diligence?
Due diligence is the buyer's process for verifying claims before an acquisition. For SaaS, this includes revenue, churn, customers, traffic, code, ownership, infrastructure, support, legal, and transfer risk.
In Vibe Coding
AI startup diligence should also check model costs, data rights, prompt quality, provider dependencies, and whether usage is repeatable.
Example
Before buying a SaaS, the buyer checks Stripe data, cancellation reasons, source code, hosting access, and support tickets.
Why this matters
This matters because Due Diligence appears repeatedly when building, deploying, debugging, or connecting services in vibe coding workflows.
When you'll hit this in practice
You will usually run into Due Diligence when working on SaaS Acquisition Checklist.