Engagement — Platform Due Diligence
Code & Co. provides AI & Tech Due Diligence to dormakaba ahead of its acquisition of Alliants, a guest experience technology platform for hospitality brands.
dormakaba has signed a binding agreement to acquire Alliants Limited ("Alliants"), the guest experience technology partner behind more than 100,000 hotel rooms for the world's leading hospitality brands. The acquisition will strengthen dormakaba's position as a global hospitality access solutions leader. It expands the company's hospitality offering beyond physical access control, connecting room entry with digital guest engagement to support a seamless guest journey while preserving customer choice.
Scope of work
Code & Co. advised dormakaba on AI & Tech Due Diligence through a detailed evaluation of Alliants' Guest Experience Platform (AXP), covering its product scope and the value it creates for hospitality brands, the roadmap and vision, operational excellence, the integration ecosystem, rollout and onboarding, and the AI strategy, positioning, and defensibility of the embedded AI capabilities, together with how the underlying AI services are built and run.
The assessment also examined the technical architecture, infrastructure and deployment, the technology stack, cybersecurity, open-source and third-party components, and legacy systems and the debt backlog, alongside the engineering organization, its software development life cycle and use of AI-assisted coding, and the certifications and regulatory posture that underpin enterprise procurement.
About Alliants
Founded in 2009 in Southampton, United Kingdom, Alliants provides proprietary guest experience software and managed services that help hotels serve guests from pre-arrival through their stay and beyond. Its capabilities include concierge, contactless check-in, mobile key, payments, messaging, and agentic AI. The company operates globally and employs more than 100 people. With a strong track record of delivering hotel room keys to both Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, Alliants' digital hotel key technology was recognized by TIME magazine as one of the best inventions of 2025. The Alliants Experience Platform (AXP) connects AI, concierge, messaging, digital keys, guest apps, and more into a single shared data layer and system interface. To learn more, visit alliants.com.
About dormakaba
dormakaba is a leading global provider in the access solutions market. The company reimagines access by setting industry standards for smart systems and sustainable solutions across the lifecycle of a building. More than 15,000 employees worldwide provide their expertise together with distribution partners to a growing customer base in more than 130 countries. dormakaba supports its customers with a broad, innovative portfolio of integrated access products, solutions and services that easily fit into building ecosystems to create safe, secure and sustainable places where people can move around seamlessly. dormakaba is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and is headquartered in Rümlang near Zurich (Switzerland). It generated a turnover of CHF 2.8 billion in financial year 2025/26. To learn more, visit dormakabagroup.com.