Sema
Codebase scans for technical due diligence
4.0Per-engagement / CustomBest for Software investors making technical DD systematic
Technical DD Code Quality AI
Overview
Sema provides technical due diligence on codebases: automated scans plus expert review that grade code quality, security posture, open-source license exposure, technical debt and engineering-team retention risk. Its reports — including an AI Code Monitor that flags how much of a codebase is GenAI-written — give non-technical partners a defensible view of what they are actually buying into.
Key features
- Comprehensive codebase health scans
- Open-source license and security risk analysis
- Technical-debt and code-quality scoring
- AI Code Monitor for GenAI-written code detection
- Investor-ready reports with expert interpretation
Pros
- Turns 'the code is fine' into evidence before you wire
- Team-retention signals catch key-person risk early
- GenAI detection is increasingly relevant to AI-era diligence
Cons
- Requires founder cooperation to grant repo access
- Deep-tech edge cases still need a specialist human review