Before you invest or acquire, you need someone independent, and experienced in composting operations, who knows what to look for. Wanu Organics provides third-party technical review of composting operations — including site visits, operational data review, and risk assessment — so you can make informed decisions. The goal is simple: minimize surprises prior to close.
Why technical due diligence matters
Composting operations are easy to misread from a spreadsheet. Permitted capacity and real capacity aren't always the same number. A site can look busy and still be out of compliance, short on curing space, or dependent on equipment near the end of its life. When you're evaluating an acquisition or an investment, those gaps are exactly where value is won or lost — and they don't show up unless someone who knows these operations from the inside goes and looks.
What a review covers
- Site visit and facility condition — a first-hand look at the pad, equipment, material streams, site layout, and how the operation actually functions.
- Operational data review — throughput, feedstock mix, process records, and product quality against what the operation claims and needs.
- Capacity verification — whether the site can sustain its stated tonnage given its active and curing space, equipment, and staffing.
- Regulatory and compliance review — permit status, conditions, and any open issues that a buyer would inherit.
- Risk assessment — the technical and operational risks that most affect value along with mitigation strategies and costs.
- Findings you can act on — a clear, independent read written for the decision in front of you, not a checklist.
Independent by design
Wanu's value is independence. We aren't selling you equipment, a technology, or the deal — the review's only job is to tell you what's actually there. That independence, combined with years spent in and around composting operations, is what makes the findings worth relying on when real money is on the line.
Experience that reads operations quickly
Wanu's due-diligence work is grounded in more than 120 site visits to small and large composting operations and involvement in over 60 composting projects. Before founding Wanu, Jorge Montezuma, PE, led the engineering team at Atlas Organics, overseeing design, permitting, compliance, and technical services for 13 composting operations across 7 states — including the kind of multi-site technical review an investor needs before evaluating an acquisition. This experience is what makes it possible to walk a site and review the data and determine what's normal from what's an issue.
When to bring in a technical review
The best time for technical due diligence is before price and terms are locked — early enough that the findings can inform the offer, structure a holdback, or shape the conditions of a deal. Wanu can scope a review to the stage you're at, from a focused site visit and data review under a tight timeline to a fuller assessment across multiple sites. The deliverable is written for decision-makers and their advisors: what's solid, what's at risk, what it would cost to address, and how much that should weigh on the transaction. When capital is committing to an operation, that independent read is often the difference between a confident decision and an expensive assumption.
Where technical due diligence fits
Technical due diligence is the right tool when an operation already exists. If you're instead weighing whether to build something new, a feasibility study is the better starting point; and once you own or improve a site, facility design and operator training address what the review turns up.