Due Diligence

Pre-close diligence on the commercial engine. The part of diligence most firms skip.
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the problem

Classic diligence tests the market. Nobody tests the engine.

Commercial due diligence sizes the market and stress-tests the thesis. Financial diligence checks the numbers. But the machinery that has to deliver the growth plan, the data, the tech stack, the pipeline, the website, the marketing, usually gets a cursory look or none at all.

Then the deal closes, and the first board meeting discovers the CRM is fiction and the marketing numbers don't survive contact with finance.

what you get

A clear read on the engine, on deal timelines.

We diligence the revenue model, the data foundation, the tech stack, the AI readiness, the customer journey, the website, the digital marketing, and the leadership team of the target, compressed to deal timelines.

  • A rating for each of the eight domains, with the evidence behind it. Leadership is assessed by Maxwell Salazar, our Operating Partner for leadership assessment.

  • The gaps between the deal thesis and the engine that has to deliver it.

  • A costed day-one fix list, sequenced by value and urgency.

  • An estimate of the post-close work required, so it can be priced into the deal.

  • A board-ready report your investment committee can actually use.

We work alongside your commercial and financial diligence providers, not in place of them. We cover the part of diligence they don't.

how it runs

Fast, quiet, and built for deal windows.

Diligence timelines don't wait. We scope in one call, work from a data room and management interviews, and deliver on the deal's clock.

who you get

Assessed by the people who fix these engines for a living.

Senior operators do the work. The people who assess the engine are the people who rebuild engines after close, which is why the findings hold up when the deal is done.

after the deal closes

The fix list becomes the plan.

The read is this page's product: fixed fee, board-ready, delivered on the deal's clock, and it prices everything that follows. The day-one fix list converts directly into post-close work, and the diligence pays for itself twice.

Growth Execution

Our team builds the fix list: a Revenue Blueprint or a single capability engagement, over months, priced against the return the read quantified. Delivered work, not a handover deck.

Growth Operations

We stay and run it. Embedded operators, a weekly decision cadence, ownership of the board pack and the revenue numbers, re-scoped quarterly against plan.

Where it fits

Bought in diligence. In the hold, it runs as the Agency Audit. At exit, the CIM Chapter Pressure Test.

The questions deal teams ask first.

How fast is it?+

Scoped in one call. We work from the data room and management interviews and deliver findings on the deal's timeline, typically inside two weeks, without slowing the process.

What do you need access to?+

The data room, plus read-only access to live systems where granted: advertising accounts, CRM, and analytics. We work quietly, alongside your commercial and financial diligence providers.

How is this different from commercial due diligence?+

Commercial diligence validates the market. We test the company's engine: whether the growth being paid for can actually be operated, measured, and scaled.

What happens after close?+

The fix list becomes the plan. It converts into a Revenue Blueprint, a single capability engagement, or embedded operators, and the first draft of the 100-day plan exists on day one.

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