Due Diligence Checklist
A structured data room covering all categories of investor due diligence — corporate, ownership, legal, financial, and technical. Access is provided to verified investors following NDA execution.
The AxiForge data room contains commercially sensitive information — patent application details, client pipeline data, financial records, and proprietary technical documentation. Access requires a signed Non-Disclosure Agreement. Submit your request below and you will receive the NDA within 24 hours.
What is it?
Due diligence is the formal verification process by which an investor — or their legal and financial advisers — independently confirms the material facts presented in a company's investment documentation. It is not an expression of mistrust. It is the standard process by which any serious capital allocation decision is made. A well-organised data room accelerates due diligence and removes friction at the point where the deal is most likely to stall.
Why it matters
- Confirms that all claims in the pitch deck and IM are verifiable
- Establishes legal title to IP — investors verify ownership, not just assertion
- Confirms the corporate structure is clean with no undisclosed liabilities
- Required by all institutional investors before funds are wired
- Accelerates the close — a complete data room removes back-and-forth delay
- Signals founder credibility — nothing is hidden, everything is documented
Due diligence is the structured process of independent verification that precedes a binding investment decision. An investor — or their solicitor, accountant, or technical adviser — reviews the company's legal documents, financial records, IP filings, and technical assets to confirm that the material facts in the investment documentation are accurate and complete.
For a seed-stage company, due diligence typically covers five categories: corporate structure, ownership and governance, legal and IP, financial position, and technical credibility. The depth of review scales with the size of the investment and the sophistication of the investor. An experienced angel investing £25,000 will conduct lighter-touch verification than a SEIS fund investing £150,000 on behalf of its LPs.
AxiForge has organised its data room around the standard due diligence checklist used by UK seed-stage investors. Every item on the checklist has a corresponding document. There are no gaps.
The AxiForge data room is organised into five categories. The structure below reflects what is available following NDA execution. Individual documents are not disclosed on this public page.
01 — Corporate
- Certificate of Incorporation — AxiForge Holdings Ltd
- Articles of Association — as adopted at incorporation
- Companies House — current Confirmation Statement
- Board Resolution Register — all executed resolutions
- Group structure diagram — Holdings, Engineering, Systems, Tech, Manufacturing PL
- Registered office documentation
02 — Ownership & Governance
- Cap Table — pre-seed and post-seed illustrative (SAFE conversion)
- Founder Agreement — roles, equity, vesting schedule
- Shareholders Agreement — draft (Class A / Class B structure)
- SAFE instrument — template and current round terms
- ESOP phantom equity scheme — structure and pool size
- Director and officer register
03 — Legal & IP
- UK Patent Application — mechanical transmission system (reference number provided under NDA)
- IP Assignment Agreement — founder to AxiForge Holdings Ltd
- IP Register — patents, trademarks, software copyright, trade secrets
- Employee and contractor NDA and IP assignment log
- Terms of Service — draft (in preparation)
- Privacy Policy — draft (in preparation)
- Data Processing Agreements — Resend, Stripe, Vercel
04 — Financial
- R&D Expenditure Log — itemised founder capital deployment
- Business bank account statements
- Director's Statement of Affairs — current assets and liabilities
- 3-Year Financial Model — base case, conservative, upside scenarios
- Use of Seed Funds — detailed allocation waterfall
- SEIS/EIS Advance Assurance — application status and correspondence
05 — Technical
- Autonomous Factory OS — architecture overview (non-code)
- Sensor SA-1 — technical specification and edge AI capability summary
- Demonstrator operational data — uptime, throughput, anomaly detection log
- Deskraft.pl production metrics — autonomous line performance summary
- Open-source licence register — all third-party libraries used in the platform
- Technology roadmap — 18-month post-seed development plan
Submit your access request
Complete the form below with your name, email, and organisation. Indicate the nature of your investment interest. No commitment is required at this stage.
Receive and sign the NDA
You will receive a mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement within 24 hours. The NDA is standard, bilateral, and governed by English law. It protects both parties. Execution is by electronic signature.
Data room access granted
Within 48 hours of NDA execution, you will receive access credentials for the AxiForge data room. All five categories of documents will be available immediately.
Founder Q&A available
Following your data room review, a 60-minute due diligence call with the founder can be scheduled. This is for substantive questions arising from the documentation — not a first introduction.
Expected timeline
From access request to signed NDA and data room entry: typically 48–72 hours. No delays introduced by the company — execution is entirely within the investor's control.
The following are the primary areas of focus for seed-stage investors conducting due diligence on a deep-tech company at the pre-revenue stage:
IP Ownership
- Is the patent application filed and is the company the applicant of record?
- Are IP assignment agreements signed by the founder and all contractors?
- Are there any third-party IP claims or prior art risks?
- Is all open-source software used under commercially compatible licences?
Corporate Cleanliness
- Is the company in good standing at Companies House?
- Are all board resolutions properly executed and on file?
- Are there any undisclosed liabilities, charges, or legal claims?
- Are all subsidiaries properly incorporated and controlled by Holdings?
Founder Background
- Does the founder have the engineering and domain expertise claimed?
- Are there any prior company failures, insolvencies, or legal proceedings?
- Is the founder's IP assignment to the company unambiguous and complete?
Financial Position
- Do bank statements confirm the capital deployment described in the IM?
- Is the company free of debt and undisclosed financial obligations?
- Are the financial model assumptions internally consistent and defensible?
Technical Credibility
- Is the demonstrator genuinely operational — not a staged environment?
- Does the Sensor SA-1 perform the edge AI functions described?
- Is the Autonomous Factory OS a working product or a prototype?
- Does the operational data from Deskraft.pl support the claimed performance?
Request NDA & Data Room Access
Submit your details below. You will receive a mutual NDA within 24 hours and data room access within 48 hours of execution. No commitment to invest is required or implied.
Investor Perspective
The quality of a data room tells an experienced investor more about a founder than any pitch. A disorganised or incomplete data room signals that the company does not know what it owns, what it has agreed to, or what it owes. The AxiForge data room is structured around the standard five-category due diligence checklist used by UK seed investors. Every item on that checklist has a corresponding document in the room. There are no placeholder folders, no missing IP assignments, no undisclosed obligations. The data room is ready because the company was built to be investable from day one — not prepared retrospectively for the raise.