The first screen you run
before you spend a dollar on diligence.
Upload the deal documents and the target's website. David produces a confidence-rated causal risk map of what actually drives this business and what could quietly kill the deal — so you know where to point your accountant and your lawyer, or whether to walk away.
Screen a Deal — Upload Documents →Watch David read a deal end-to-end.
Deals don't die on the numbers. They die on what nobody screened for.
Most acquisitions fail on operational and strategic risk the buyer never thought to check — concentration, owner-dependence, competitive fragility, integration risk, the thing that looked minor in the CIM and quietly killed the deal six months in. David Diligence is the screen you run early, before you spend money on financial and legal diligence, so you know where the real risk lives and whether the deal is worth pursuing at all.
A risk map you can defend — to your partners, your board, or yourself.
The output is not a confident-sounding summary. It is a confidence- rated causal risk map, with every finding labeled, every external claim cited, every gap documented, and the reasoning chain visible. The audit trail is part of the product.
Confidence ratings inline
Every substantive finding is labeled CAUSAL, MECHANISM, THRESHOLD, or CORRELATED — and the labels appear in the body, not buried in an appendix. You know exactly what's load-bearing and what isn't.
Causal driver structure
What actually drives this business's performance, and how fragile those drivers are. The kind of question that determines whether the asking price is rational or wishful.
Concentration and dependency
Customer concentration, revenue concentration, key-person and owner-dependence risk — surfaced from the seller's own documents and stress-tested against the sector's typical failure patterns.
Non-obvious causal chains
The issue that looks minor on the surface but is exactly the kind of thing that quietly kills deals like this one. David's specialty: the chain you wouldn't have thought to look for.
Documented gaps
Where information is missing, David names it explicitly and tells you what to demand from the seller next. Honest uncertainty is more valuable than a confident-sounding guess.
Where to point your diligence
The final section tells you which questions your accountant and lawyer should attack first — and what to demand from the seller before you authorize the next phase of spend.
Three channels, collided. Divergence is the signal.
David reads the deal across three independent channels and surfaces where they disagree. The seller's claims, the sector's baseline, and the business's own self-presentation rarely tell exactly the same story — and the gaps between them are where the real risk hides.
The seller's claims
Every PDF you upload — the listing, the CIM, the P&L, the pitch deck, the thesis — is read and classified. David extracts what the seller is claiming about the business and labels it as claim, not fact.
The sector baseline
David researches what's normal in this business's sector — typical margins, growth, competitive dynamics, and the causal patterns by which businesses of this type fail or lose value after acquisition.
The self-presentation
The business's own public website, read for what it reveals unintentionally: customer concentration, owner-dependence, staleness, positioning, what it emphasizes — and what it conspicuously omits.
Upload the deal. Get the risk map.
Upload the documents
Up to 8 PDFs — listing, CIM, financials, pitch deck, thesis, whatever you have. 25 MB per file. David identifies what each document is. No labeling required.
Add the target's website
Paste the business's URL. David reads the key pages of the target's own public site — the third channel — and surfaces what it reveals about the business.
Watch David build it
Document interpretation, sector research, three-channel synthesis, causal filter, adversarial review, citation tracking. Every step visible.
Read the preview free
A redacted preview lands in your inbox with the causal analysis, the channel synthesis, and the audit trail. The final risk verdict and the "where to point your diligence" section unlock with the full report.
$999 per deal. Free preview, every time.
Upload the deal, read the preview, and only pay if the screen would change how you approach the next phase of diligence. No subscription, no commitment, no procurement cycle.
Screen a Deal →About 5 minutes to submit. About 18 minutes for David to build.