I've audited about a dozen CRM codebases for clients over the last couple years. Here's the checklist I actually use, posting in case it helps anyone evaluating one right now. These are the 8 things that get skipped on every "production-ready" demo I've seen. The demo is always pretty. The bones usually aren't. 1. The license. Read it twice. "You get the source code" doesn't mean you can resell, sublicense, white-label, or even redeploy under your own brand. I've seen source-