Investor-Grade Cloud Due Diligence
Cloud Consul reveals the truth beneath cloud invoices. We identify real run-rates, efficiency gaps, and hidden risks across financial, architectural, and contractual dimensions.
The Challenge
Cloud spend is often misunderstood or misrepresented in transactions. Management teams may lack visibility into true costs, commitment obligations, or efficiency baselines. What appears as a clean P&L line item often conceals technical debt, under-utilized commitments, and structural inefficiencies.
Traditional IT due diligence approaches fall short when evaluating cloud infrastructure. The complexity of usage-based pricing, reserved capacity, savings plans, and marketplace contracts demands specialized expertise and proprietary data reconciliation.
Without rigorous validation, acquirers face post-close surprises: commitment breakage penalties, expiring discounts, hidden capacity waste, and EBITDA erosion that wasn't factored into valuation.
Our Solution
We quantify the truth — verified, reconciled, and investor-grade.
Financial Validation
Reconcile every dollar to invoices, contracts, and usage data. Establish true run-rate and identify anomalies, one-time charges, and trending patterns.
Architectural Analysis
Evaluate infrastructure design, resource utilization, and technical efficiency. Benchmark against peer workloads using proprietary data models.
Commitment Review
Decode Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and marketplace obligations. Identify coverage gaps, expiration risks, and under-utilization.
Value Quantification
Model EBITDA impact, valuation adjustments, and post-close savings opportunities. Deliver board-ready financial bridges and scenario analysis.
What You Receive
18-Month Spend Trend and True Run-Rate
Historical analysis with seasonal adjustments, anomaly identification, and forward-looking projections based on usage patterns and commitments.
Efficiency Scorecards and Benchmarks
Proprietary efficiency metrics comparing the target's cloud operations against anonymized peer data and industry best practices.
Commitment Coverage and Expiration Risk
Detailed analysis of all Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and enterprise agreements with timeline visualizations and financial exposure modeling.
Marketplace and Contract Liabilities
Identification of third-party software commitments, minimum spend obligations, and potential breakage scenarios.
EBITDA Impact and Valuation Bridge
Quantified financial impact of identified issues and opportunities, presented in formats suitable for lender presentations and board discussions.
100-Day Savings Roadmap
Prioritized action plan for post-close value capture, including quick wins, structural improvements, and governance recommendations.
All deliverables are peer-reviewed by partners and prepared for board-level presentation.
Sample Outputs
Investor Report
Comprehensive PDF analysis
Efficiency Dashboard
Interactive benchmark data
Presentation Deck
Board-ready slides
Start Your Diligence Process
Every engagement begins with a secure, NDA-protected introduction. We'll outline our process, data needs, and timeline tailored to your deal.