Business acquisition due diligence
Is This Business Worth Pursuing?
Test a listing’s deal math and get the seller questions that matter. Free. No account required.
Free QuickCheck
Paste Your Business Listing
Figures remain seller claims until verified. City-only listings support deal math; a full street address is needed for local data.
No account or documents required. The built-in sample is fictional and city-only; it demonstrates calculations and questions, while location evidence remains unresolved.
Built for business buyers
From an Attractive Listing to a Defensible Buyer Decision.
Business Buyer Check serves independent buyers, acquisition entrepreneurs and their advisors. It tests the seller's price, revenue, SDE, add-backs, financing assumptions, owner dependence, concentration and transfer story against calculations, supplied documents and applicable outside evidence.
The result is not a score that tells you to buy. It tells you what is supported, what conflicts, what remains unresolved, what to ask for and which protections or closing conditions deserve professional review.
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QuickCheck
Free Business Evaluation
Is this listing worth pursuing?
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DealScreen
Acquisition Risk Report
Does the structure survive financing and downside pressure?
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DealProof
Financial and Public-Record Diligence
Do documents and official records support the deal?
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Deal Intelligence
Buyer Evidence Workspace
What changed, what remains open and what must be rechecked?
Why the Evidence Ledger matters
A Conclusion You Can Trace Back to Its Support.
Every material conclusion connects the claim, evidence, interpretation, financial or operating consequence and buyer action. Seller-provided, buyer-provided, document-supported, live API, official search, guided search, calculation, not-applicable and unresolved evidence remain separate. That makes the report defensible without pretending it is an audit, appraisal or legal clearance.
The starting point
A Listing Is a Sales Document. Treat It Like One.
Business listings are designed to generate interest, not establish value. Revenue, cash flow, add-backs, growth claims, customer loyalty, and owner involvement often appear without the records needed to evaluate them.
QuickCheck organizes the claims, calculates a consistent first-pass view of the economics, adds relevant public context, and turns the gaps into specific questions for the seller. It is designed to help you decide where to spend your diligence time—not to make the acquisition decision for you.
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Capture
Paste the listing you already have. We identify the figures and claims that drive the opportunity.
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Confirm
You correct the extraction. Nothing seller-provided is silently treated as verified.
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Test
We calculate valuation and debt-service indicators and add location-specific public context.
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Question
You receive a focused list of evidence requests and issues that could change the conclusion.
Methodology
We Separate What Is Claimed from What Can Be Supported.
Every report distinguishes seller claims, acquisition calculations, market context, public records, and unresolved evidence. A high deal-strength score cannot compensate for thin or unreliable evidence.
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Deal strength
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Data coverage
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Reliability
Evidence Hierarchy
Seller claims
Listing language and figures remain claims until documents support them.
Acquisition math
Price multiples, debt service, cash flow, and downside scenarios show their inputs and assumptions.
Market context
Census and other public datasets add local demand, industry, labor, and business-density context without claiming business-specific proof.
Public-record evidence
Official records retain the source, query status, retrieval date, match confidence, limits, and required buyer action.
Unresolved
Missing, stale, conflicting, or unavailable evidence lowers coverage and creates a specific next-step request.
Inside the report
One Claim. Its Support. the Decision It Changes.
Illustrative structure using fictional figures. Every row preserves what was supplied, what was tested, what remains unresolved and what the buyer should do next.
Outside evidence
Sources with Names, Dates, Match Logic and Limits.
The report distinguishes an automated result from a guided search, partial module, unavailable source and planned expansion.
Automated and active
Census, SBA comparables, BLS QCEW, USAspending, EPA, CFPB, FEMA, CMS NPI, CPSC and FDA when applicable.
Automated with limitations
FMCSA, geographic matching, verified state source maps and scheduled source refreshes depend on identifiers, configuration and availability.
Guided or partial
UCC, licensing, courts, OSHA, DOL, USPTO, SAM exclusions, OFAC and parts of healthcare screening require manual work or further activation.
Not currently sold as complete
NOAA expansion, SBA certification, FDIC and CRA local-capital analysis, and Section 1071 Outlook remain planned or unavailable.
A Smarter First Spend
Find Out Whether a Full Quality of Earnings Engagement Is Worth It.
DealProof does not replace a CPA-led quality-of-earnings engagement. A small-business QoE typically costs $6,000–$35,000 and takes two to four weeks according to BD Emerson’s published benchmarks. DealProof gives buyers a $79 first-pass reconciliation of authorized documents, earnings adjustments and contradictions, helping them decide whether the opportunity deserves that professional engagement.
See what each level of diligence can establish →Where to start
Start Free. Buy Depth Only When the Deal Earns It.
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QuickCheck
Free
Start here: organize the listing, test core math and identify what is missing.
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DealScreen
$39 one time
Use after QuickCheck: stress the financing and add market and risk context.
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DealProof
$79 one time
Use when documents arrive: reconcile earnings, records, contradictions and closing conditions.
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Deal Intelligence
$99 monthly
Use during an active deal: preserve versions, compare changes and trigger pre-closing rechecks.
What This Service Does Not Replace
Business Buyer Check does not provide an appraisal, quality-of-earnings opinion, audit, legal review, tax advice, environmental assessment, or lending decision. Use the report to organize your initial review and to work more efficiently with qualified accountants, attorneys, lenders, and other advisors.
Before You Begin
Questions Serious Buyers Ask.
Is Business Buyer Check a valuation?
No. It is preliminary acquisition screening and decision support—not an appraisal, audit, quality-of-earnings opinion, legal opinion, or recommendation to buy.
What do I need to start?
A business-for-sale listing or the basic asking price, revenue, cash flow, industry, and location. Unknown information can remain blank and will lower evidence coverage.
What happens after the free check?
You can stop, investigate the generated seller questions yourself, or move into deeper source-linked screening and document-backed diligence.
Does a clear result guarantee the business is safe to buy?
No. It records what was tested, the sources available, and what remains unresolved. No public-record screen can guarantee completeness or future performance.
Your Next Deal Deserves a Better First Question
Is This Business Worth Pursuing?
Start with what the seller has already disclosed. We’ll show you what the listing says, what the math suggests, and what still needs proof.
Run the Free QuickCheck