Assess whether management can run this without the founder after a contractor

SITUATION A PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on cannot treat a contractor who actually wrote the core code as incidental context on revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash. Buy-side QoE lead must close management can run this from that extract under M&A Due Diligence / Earnings and Revenue Quality.

DECISION Buy-side QoE lead in a PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on must choose Proceed / Reprice / Walk / Hold using revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash after a contractor who actually wrote the core code.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Buy-side QoE lead can defend Proceed from revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash after a contractor who actually wrote the core code in a M&A Due Diligence challenge. 2. Buy-side QoE lead cannot defend Proceed from revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash; Reprice is what the extract actually supports after a contractor who actually wrote the core code. 3. A contractor who actually wrote the core code never reached the population in revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash — reopen intake, do not close management can run this. 4. Two facts in revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash after a contractor who actually wrote the core code conflict for buy-side QoE lead; hold this Earnings and Revenue Quality file.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Map reps, earnout mechanics, and integration risk a PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on would inherit. 2. Tie quality-of-earnings, working-capital, and contingent items in revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash to management can run this. 3. Name the document buy-side QoE lead still needs before signing. 4. For this M&A Due Diligence Earnings and Revenue Quality file, read revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash against a contractor who actually wrote the core code and write the one fact that would move management can run this for buy-side QoE lead.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Proceed / Reprice / Walk / Hold on this M&A Due Diligence / Earnings and Revenue Quality packet (revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash after a contractor who actually wrote the core code). The follow-on Earnings and Revenue Quality action is what buy-side QoE lead does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line M&A Due Diligence option on management can run this, then the evidence in revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash, then the action for buy-side QoE lead - Hypothesis scorecard against revenue-quality bridge from bookings to cash: supported / rejected / untestable - What changes management can run this if a contractor who actually wrote the core code is later withdrawn - Named option among Proceed, Reprice, Walk and the fact that kills the others