Scenario: Technical Due Diligence for a Robotics Start-up

How we would approach an investor who needs to know whether a robotic prototype does what its founders claim.

Illustrative scenario. It describes how CCTI would approach this type of problem; it is not a report of a past engagement.

The situation

A fund is considering an investment in a start-up building robots for biohazard environments. The declared performance comes mostly from the start-up's own tests.

How we would approach it

Stage 3 (Feasibility & Validation): define, before testing, the claims that decide the investment; combine a simulation model of the system with targeted physical tests of critical sub-assemblies and a review of the control software.

What the client would receive: an independent technical report stating which claims were confirmed, which were not, and what it would take to fix the gaps — useful to the investor and to the start-up alike.