Plan A Acquires AI Tool to Speed Technical Due Diligence for M&A

Technology buyers may get a faster way to surface hidden problems in sprawling software estates before they acquire them. Plan A Technologies has acquired a stealth AI assessment tool for its technical M&A due-diligence practice, adding an AI-powered analytical layer to work that can alter a transaction’s cost and risk profile.

The tool is meant to help Plan A examine large, fragmented technology environments more quickly and spot risks, patterns, opportunities and anomalies that conventional approaches may miss. Plan A serves private-equity firms, strategic acquirers, enterprises and private investors evaluating technology-intensive transactions, so the target is not a consumer software product but the investigation that informs an acquisition decision.

The tool sits beside, rather than replaces, existing review

Technical diligence asks whether a target’s underlying technology is as strong as it appears and what it would take to scale, integrate, modernize or secure it after closing. Plan A said the acquisition supplements expert interviews, manual code reviews, architecture analysis, documentation reviews and commercial code-scanning products. The intended role is to bring scattered signals into a broader expert-led assessment, not to substitute for those inputs.

The acquisition is aimed at four diligence questions

• Whether the underlying technology is as strong as it appears.
• Which risks may not be visible in management presentations.
• How difficult the platform may be to scale, integrate, modernize or secure.
• What additional investment may be needed after the transaction closes.

AI is not a substitute for senior technical judgment.

Slav Kulik, co-founder of Plan A Technologies

The creator is now responsible for the next phase

Serhii Melnychuk, who created the tool, has joined Plan A as an architect and will lead its integration and future development. He described the product’s purpose as helping experts work more effectively by connecting signals spread across different systems. That personnel move ties the transaction to an ongoing product effort rather than a one-time software purchase.

Plan A frames the deal as part of a wider strategy to build and acquire proprietary technology that augments its engineers, architects, data specialists and technology advisers. The company also develops custom software, AI agents and agentic systems, modernizes legacy applications, builds data platforms, manages cloud migrations and integrates enterprise systems. It says it has completed more than 500 product deployments worldwide.

Speed is the promise; evidence of accuracy is still absent

The announcement does not identify the tool by name or provide benchmark results showing how accurately it finds issues, how much time it saves or how it performs against existing diligence methods. Plan A’s stated case is that deeper analysis becomes more important as AI generates more code and company leaders may understand their systems less well. For buyers, the test will be whether the added analysis identifies consequential issues without displacing the senior judgment Plan A says remains necessary.