AI-Specific Diligence
Model Risk: How accurate is the model? What's the evaluation framework? When was it last retrained? What's the drift rate?
Data Rights: Do they own the training data? Are there licensing restrictions? GDPR/CCPA compliance for personal data?
Inference Economics: Cost per prediction? Revenue per prediction? Margin at current scale? Margin at 10x scale?
Team Risk: ML researchers are notoriously hard to retain post-acquisition. Budget 30-50% salary increases for retention packages.