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Design due diligence for M&A

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Overview

Before acquiring a company, audit its design system from the outside in five minutes: brand quality, design debt, WCAG compliance, and a low/medium/high estimate of the effort to align it with yours.

Acquisition targets are evaluated on code, finances, and team, but rarely on design-system health, which is a real integration cost. Extract the target's live site with --crawl, --wcag, and --brand-guide, then feed the output to an agent for a due-diligence summary: brand consistency and quality, design technical debt (hardcoded values, drift), WCAG compliance level, and the estimated effort to align with your own system, broken down per category (color, typography, spacing, components). It needs no access to their codebase or Figma, just the live product, so it works on any target before a deal.

Audit the acquisition target

Terminal
dembrandt target.example.com --crawl 5 --wcag --brand-guide --save-output
Output

A due-diligence summary of the target's design system: quality, debt, WCAG level, and per-category alignment effort, ready for the negotiation table.

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