Percomb is an evidence system for technology due diligence. You collect material about a target company; the platform reads it, answers a practitioner's question list against it, and produces a report where every statement traces back to a document, a page and a passage — or is recorded as unanswered.
That last part is the point. Most of the value in diligence is not the summary of what you were given. It is knowing precisely what you were not given.
The shape of a project
- Scope it. Pick an assessment template. The template decides which review areas are examined and which questions are asked in each.
- Request the material. The request list comes from the scope, so you are asking for what the assessment actually needs.
- Add what arrives. Documents, spreadsheets, meeting notes, and — where the target permits it — an analysis extract from their repositories.
- Let it read. Each review area is researched against the project's own documents. Findings are drafted with citations attached.
- Review it. An analyst reads each draft and accepts, revises or rejects it. Nothing is published on the platform's word alone.
- Issue it. The report is released as a version, exported, or shared with an external reader under an agreement.
What makes the output defensible
- Citations are locators, not gestures. A finding points at a page, a spreadsheet range, a timestamp in a transcript, or a file in a repository extract.
- Silence is a finding. If nothing in the material answers a question, the answer is "not evidenced", and the question goes back onto the request list. It is never filled in from general knowledge about companies like this one.
- Ratings mean something specific. A review area is Good, Warning, Critical, Info, In Progress, or Not Assessed. "Not Assessed" means no evidence was retrievable — which is a different statement from "we looked and it is bad", and it is deliberately excluded from the overall roll-up.
- A person signs off. Every drafted finding carries its review state: Draft until someone has read it, then Reviewed or Revised.
What it is not
It is not a chat window over a folder, and it is not a replacement for your judgment. It does the reading, the cross-checking and the drafting; you decide what the evidence means and put your name on the conclusion.