The Due Diligence Show

How do you get AI into your business without blowing the budget or locking yourself into a vendor you’ll regret later? In this episode of The Due Diligence Show, Adam Jaques and Luke Silcock explore the real-world decisions behind operationalizing AI. Whether you’re building your own stack, renting from a hyperscaler, or experimenting with open-source agents in your office lab, this conversation is your field guide to navigating the modern AI supply chain. 💡 Topics covered: Build vs. Buy vs. Borrow — which AI adoption path is right for you? Token pricing explained (hint: think arcade economics) Model routers, local deployments, and agentic workflows Is Microsoft Copilot worth the spend? A brutally honest look Avoiding AI sprawl and understanding Model Context Protocol (MCP) What OpenAI + Jony Ive could mean for the future of AI hardware Listen now and make smarter decisions about how your business uses AI — before the architecture, security, and CFO teams come knocking.

AI is boosting business productivity — but can you trust what it gives you? Adam and Luke explore the real-world risks behind automation, hallucinated results, and why “just let the AI handle it” might backfire. Fast, cheap, wrong? Let’s talk about it.

How to announce your deal! There are so many things to consider when communicating a deal to the world and those directly impacted. Thought Source use their experience to talk in detail about how to approach communicating different types of deals and what to consider when it comes to communicating how a deal affects those being acquired and those acquiring. It’s more complicated than you would first think!

Look out Product Managers, this episode is all about you! The Thought Source team are back in the deal room to discuss what they look for in a technology product and its suitability for acquisition. They discuss everything from product features, market fit, what makes a good roadmap and indications that you have set the product up for a successful future in order to adapt and grow.

This is such a common question that our clients ask. Many clients have a proficient engineering team who are eager to build something new. So should you give them some budget and get them onto it, or acquire another company that may have already learned from their mistakes and built some market reputation? The answer is never straight forward and the Though Source team give you their opinion in this episode of The Due Diligence Show.

As the pressure of the deal clock ticks, it's easy for tech acquirers to get caught up in revenue projections, legal and HR, when they need to stay core to the actual target's function, the product they sell. In episode 3 of The Due Diligence show, we chat about how the value of Technology due diligence is often a misunderstood area of the M&A process. Many acquirers consider technology as a "tick box" item that is simply covered contractually, the problem is that if the core tech asset that drives a company's revenue can look great at face value, but can often be poorly executed and unfit for the buyers "deal thesis". Beyond inspecting the source code asset, there are many complementary activities that the Thought Source team discuss which will bring material information to the other diligence work streams such as customer sentiment, future fit and scale, potential misuse of open source, key contributor retainment, future team investment and more.

Specializing in technical due diligence, the experienced team at Thought Source Consulting take you for a look behind the scenes at the art of performing technical due diligence on companies and products for M&A projects Visit us at www.thoughtsourceconsulting.com