The analyst on your side of the table.
Due diligence is the anchor: an investor‑grade report on one company, every material claim checked against its source, one name signing. The same desk also screens your pipeline, reads the sector, and sanity‑checks the price before you overpay.
One flat fixed quote, in writing · no retainer, no call · backtest it on a deal you already closed
We ran this engine blind on a deal that later went bankrupt. It said do not close.
We did not predict the bankruptcy, and we do not claim to have. We said the deal could not be underwritten on the information available, and named what had to be closed first. Read the backtest.
Proceed, with conditions
Anysphere (Cursor): a $100M to ~$2B ARR ramp in 13 months, with a broken margin underneath. The verdict sits on page one, the reasons directly under it.
Read the full briefThe backtest. Send a deal you already closed, grade us against what your team found.
What diligence costs everywhere else.
Three rungs, and a gap in the middle where most SMB deals actually live.
Opinions about an idea. Polls, automated reports, gig-site reviews. Nobody on this rung opens a P&L.
A screening. A 45-minute call, or a pre-LOI vetting opinion. Useful, but not a document a lender can use.
The full written report. Three to four weeks of engagement, calls along the way, priced for deals far larger than most SMB acquisitions.
Verdict puts the full written report at the screening price. $750 flat, 48 hours, async, forwardable. And when the deal justifies the full desk, it starts at $2,500, still under a quarter of the market's entry rung. The full comparison.
By the numbers
Adversarial critique, machine-checked claim table, consistency linter.
Each the depth of senior analyst work, sourced and signed.
Express turnaround. Standard lands in five days.
One flat written quote per engagement. Useful, or your money back.
The 48-hour red-flag brief for $250K to $5M deals.
"Couldn't I just ask a chatbot?" A single prompt gives you a plausible summary. Verdict researches ten dimensions separately, checks each claim against its cited source, and is built to hunt for what's wrong, not smooth it over. See the method, or the honest case for a machine at all.
Three steps, no black box.
You send the name
The company and the decision you're weighing. One flat written quote before any work starts.
The desk investigates
Ten research dimensions, every material claim checked against its source, three gates before delivery.
The verdict lands
Proceed, conditions, renegotiate, or walk. Page one, signed, in five days or 48 hours on Express.
We graded the desk before we sold it.
Before selling a single report, we ran Verdict head-to-head against three published investigations and published the finding-by-finding comparison, misses included. Read it and disagree.
An internal comparison, fully disclosed, misses on the record. No third party has graded Verdict yet.
This is what lands in your inbox.
Not a score, not a dashboard: a written brief with the verdict on page one, the thesis stated plainly, and the findings ranked. Researched entirely from public sources and published in full, misses on the record.
Read the full sampleAnysphere (Cursor)
Proceed, with conditionsA pre-close, structure-aware position: now a bet on the SpaceX $60B all-stock deal closing and your spot in the preference stack, not on Cursor's standalone SaaS economics.
Anatomy of a red flag.
A real finding starts as one clause buried in a filing. Here's how a diligence-grade flag comes out the other side. Illustrative example.
Buried in the filing
Revenue for the period was $48.2M, of which $19.1M (40%) was attributable to a single customer under a master agreement expiring in 14 months. No related concentration risk is discussed in the offering materials.
How Verdict reads it
[High] Customer concentrationOne customer is ~40% of revenue on a contract that lapses inside the deal's payback window, and the risk appears nowhere in the seller's materials.
Source: Form 10-K, Note 12 (Segment & major-customer concentration), cross-checked against the CIM.
Built for the people writing the check.
Angels & syndicates
A second, unconflicted read before you commit to a round.
Search funds & ETA
Diligence on an acquisition target without a full advisory bill.
Secondary & SPV buyers
An outside-in check on a company you can't get into the data room of.
M&A advisors
A sourced first-pass so your team's hours go to the hard calls.
One company per report. A handful of reports a week. The depth is the point, so the queue stays short on purpose.
One desk for the whole deal.
Due diligence is the anchor. The same signed, sourced discipline runs the length of the buyer's journey, from the first listing to the final number.
Screen
Rank a pipeline of listings against your thesis, kill the junk, and hand back the two or three worth a real look.
Read the marketMarket Read
A sourced deep-dive on the sector before you commit: tailwinds against headwinds, consolidation, where the margins are going.
Judge the dealVerdict The anchor
The full investigation. Ten sections, every load-bearing fact checked against its source, one name signing it. Micro-DD $750 flat for smaller deals.
Price itPrice Check
They named a multiple. We show what comparable deals actually cleared at, and whether it holds up. A negotiation input, not a certified appraisal.
Every engagement backed by the Verdict guarantee: useful, or your money back.
Before a buyer's diligence finds it, find it yourself.
The same engine, run for the seller before the listing goes live. Earnings rebuilt from the raw books, add-backs flagged while there is still time to document or drop them, findings delivered as a fix list, ordered by cost at the table.
A disclosed issue is priced once. A discovered one is priced twice. The broker usually commissions it. The seller is who it protects. The books decide, not the storefront.
Not an appraisal: it does not tell you what to ask, it tells you what your asking price can survive. One side per deal. Verdict never advises buyer and seller on the same transaction.
Have a company in mind?
Send the name and the decision you're weighing. The verdict lands in five days, or 48 hours on Express.
One flat written quote per engagement · every claim sourced or labelled
The report is the start, not the end. Watch keeps the file live after delivery.
Backed by the Verdict guarantee: useful, or your money back.