# Arrive First > Technology advisory for software acquisitions, compliance readiness, distressed technology recovery, interim technology leadership, custom engineering, incident response, and independent technology expert witness work. Arrive First helps software buyers, investors, founders, operators, and legal teams evaluate technology, identify material risks, and plan practical remediation. Its acquisition work connects evidence about code, architecture, security, infrastructure costs, intellectual property, reliability, and engineering teams to valuation, transaction decisions, and post-acquisition integration. The business has a presence in Porto, Portugal, and the Tampa area of Florida, United States. Christopher Justice is the named technology, cybersecurity, and SaaS expert on the expert witness page and the author of the published Insights guides. The expert witness biography is the source for his professional background. For buyers and sellers of software businesses, start with Pre-Acquisition Due Diligence and the acquisition checklist. For litigation or arbitration, start with Expert Witness. For an active security incident, use Incident Response and the published contact details. Service pages describe engagement scope; the Insights articles provide educational guidance. Compliance services cover control implementation and audit or certification preparation; framework names do not establish that Arrive First or a client holds a particular certification. The canonical website is https://arrivefirst.com/. Links below use public canonical URLs without campaign parameters. Individual pages are the source for current service details and policies. This file is a curated content guide; crawler access rules are published separately in robots.txt. Private client materials and internal management systems are not included. ## Company and contact - [Arrive First](https://arrivefirst.com/): Company overview and service navigation for technology consulting, software acquisitions, and operational transitions. - [Contact and quote requests](https://arrivefirst.com/#contact): Public inquiry form with service selection and an option to request a quote or proposal. Published general contact: ask@arrivefirst.com. Portugal: +351 910 866 600. United States: +1 512 657 2345. - [Christopher Justice: expert biography](https://arrivefirst.com/expert-witness#bio): Professional background and areas of technology, cybersecurity, software, SaaS, payments, and privacy expertise. ## Acquisition diligence and technology recovery - [Pre-Acquisition Due Diligence](https://arrivefirst.com/pre-acquisition-due-diligence): Technology assessments for software acquisitions. Covers source code, architecture, security, data, infrastructure, compliance, scalability, and integration risk. Deliverables include an executive summary, technical assessment, prioritized risk register, remediation estimates, and integration roadmap. - [Distressed Technologies](https://arrivefirst.com/distressed-technologies): Assessment, stabilization, and recovery of failing software projects or technology assets. Covers failed implementations, legacy modernization, vendor exits, technical debt, reliability, and recovery planning. - [Transitional IT Leadership](https://arrivefirst.com/transitional-it-leadership): Interim CTO, CIO, and VP Engineering support for leadership gaps, acquisitions, reorganizations, strategic planning, team development, and handoff to permanent leadership. - [Custom Engineering](https://arrivefirst.com/custom-engineering): Software architecture and delivery, full-stack development, system and API integration, data architecture, cloud infrastructure, security-conscious design, and user experience implementation. ## Cybersecurity, compliance, and expert analysis - [Compliance Convergence](https://arrivefirst.com/compliance-convergence): Shared control and evidence programs across multiple frameworks. Covers SOC 2 Type I and II readiness, ISO/IEC 27001 information security management and certification preparation, GDPR privacy implementation, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and other sector-specific requirements. - [SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, and ISO/IEC 42001 Audit Readiness](https://arrivefirst.com/audit-readiness): Pre-audit preparation built with the client's engineering team: scoping, gap assessment, control design and implementation, evidence collection, dry run, and handoff to the audit firm or certification body. Includes ISO/IEC 42001 AI management readiness (AI inventory, risk assessments, data and model controls, human oversight). Arrive First does not perform audits or certifications. Offers a 12-question readiness scorecard and a readiness call request form. - [Incident Response](https://arrivefirst.com/incident-response): Incident triage, containment, evidence preservation, forensic investigation, root-cause analysis, remediation, recovery, documentation, and stakeholder communication. Contact the team to confirm availability and engagement scope. - [Technology and Cybersecurity Expert Witness](https://arrivefirst.com/expert-witness): Independent technical analysis for plaintiff and defense counsel in litigation, arbitration, and regulatory matters. Covers software and SaaS disputes, breaches, payments, privacy, source code, and engineering practices. Engagement types include consulting, reports and rebuttals, declarations, deposition, and trial testimony; a conflicts check precedes substantive engagement. ## Published insights and acquisition resources - [Insights](https://arrivefirst.com/insights): Current index of published articles on technology due diligence, risk, compliance, and technology leadership. Use this index to find articles published after this guide was reviewed. - [Software Acquisition Technology Due Diligence Checklist](https://arrivefirst.com/insights/software-acquisition-technology-due-diligence-checklist): Christopher Justice's evidence-led checklist across architecture, code and delivery, IP and open source, infrastructure cost, security, privacy, reliability, people, dependencies, and technical debt. Explains how findings affect valuation, deal structure, and the first 100 days after acquisition. - [Technology Due Diligence Checklist: CSV Download](https://arrivefirst.com/downloads/software-acquisition-technology-due-diligence-checklist.csv): Downloadable working checklist accompanying the article, suitable for a spreadsheet-based acquisition review. - [Technical Red Flags in a SaaS Acquisition](https://arrivefirst.com/insights/saas-acquisition-technical-red-flags): Eight findings that can change the economics of a software deal, including divergent deployments, hosting costs, unsupported security claims, code ownership gaps, key-person dependencies, data handling gaps, unmeasured reliability, and a roadmap dependent on a rewrite. - [What Belongs in a Technology Due Diligence Data Room](https://arrivefirst.com/insights/technology-due-diligence-data-room): An evidence-oriented technology data room structure for buyers and sellers. Covers architecture, product, engineering, hosting, security, privacy, IP, operations, team, and third-party dependencies, with staged access for sensitive materials. ## Optional - [Privacy Policy](https://arrivefirst.com/privacy): Published information about personal data handling, rights, and privacy contacts. - [Terms and Conditions](https://arrivefirst.com/terms): Published terms governing website use and services. - [Security](https://arrivefirst.com/security): Published security information and reporting contacts. - [SMS Consent Documentation](https://arrivefirst.com/sms-consent): Documentation for the associated Lo.st lost-item recovery SMS program, including explicit opt-in, verification, HELP, and STOP. This is consent documentation, not an acquisition advisory service. - [Public Sitemap](https://arrivefirst.com/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable inventory of public pages and currently published Insights articles. - [Robots Rules](https://arrivefirst.com/robots.txt): Crawler access rules and sitemap location.