Continuous Diligence - Maturity and Risk Assessment

Not all diligence programs are created equal.

Kickdrum Continuous Diligence uses constant AI-powered measurement to maximize operational excellence, ensuring enterprise value remains safe, defensible, and ready for growth.

What to Expect

Is your technology mature? Are you continuing to mitigate risk? Could your security be enhanced? Are your savings maximized? Kickdrum Continuous Diligence ensures that you continue to answer positively to these questions by:

• Increasing efficiency and ensuring alignment with evolving business goals through Kickdrum diligence best practices
• Achieving more stable operations, reduced uncertainty, and a foundation for informed strategic planning that safeguards your business continuity
• Improving the integrity and resilience of your technology assets to protect valuable data and maintain customer trust – vital for a strong market presence and legal compliance
• Identifying inefficiencies, uncovering hidden costs, and guiding investment in high-impact areas to maximize savings without sacrificing quality or performance

How It Works

Kickdrum combines best of breed commercial, off-the-shelf services with our technology expertise and AI-powered interrogators to analyze target systems for patterns and anti-patterns, signals of risk, corroboration, and evidence of waste. The system will gather data from fragmented and disconnected systems and synthesize it into prescriptive guidance.

What You Learn

The depth of Continuous Diligence provided by Kickdrum is reliant on your inputs. The following analyses and reports are available.

• What you provide: Kickdrum Insights and Reports
• Self assessment survey: Maturity assessment / key risks
• Source code (GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket, local): Deal risk, Security risks, Secrets detection, Coding best practices / quality, Maintainability / complexity / difficulty to hire, Key contributors
• Cloud billing access (AWS Cost Explorer): TCO reporting, Waste identification, Cost optimization / savings opportunities, Cost per customer
• Cloud ops/config access: Compliance with best practices, Performance vs. benchmarks
• Accounting system access (QuickBooks, NetSuite) Company directory (Google Workspace, MS365): Software / subscription audit, Unused / per-seat licensing waste, Vendor recommendations, App redundancy
• Company directory (Google Workspace, MS365): Identity / access management (IAM) best practices
• Data center inventory (S3, ELB): TCO reporting, Overprovisioning / underprovisioning, Alerts on memory, storage, compute, License / leasing cost risks
• Database access, API access (RDS, Aurora): SQL performance analysis and monitoring, API performance analysis and monitoring, Fraud detection in certain data sets
• ANY system with a login: Automated screenshots of key reports / status