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Pricing

One report. Priced to the decision.

No subscription, no seat fees, no hourly meters. Every engagement gets one flat, fixed quote, in writing, within one business day of your brief. No retainers, no scope surprises. One name signs the report; one number covers it.

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Delivered as PDF, editable Word, and a 1-page brief · the published sample flagged a ~$60B acquisition before it closed

The options

Three ways in. One is free.

The backtest On us Against a deal you've already closed
  • The full 10-section report
  • Exec summary + ranked red flags
  • Run blind against your own outcome
  • Cross-check it, then decide
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Most chosen Standard From $2,500 Five-day turnaround · one flat written quote
  • The full 10-section report
  • Exec summary + ranked red flags
  • Sourced throughout · PDF, Word, brief, and IC memo
  • Prioritized to your concerns
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Express Scoped quote 48-hour priority turnaround
  • Everything in Standard
  • A 20-minute async walkthrough
  • Async Q&A on the findings
  • Priority queue
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Every tier ships the same core: verdict up front, ranked red flags, every material claim sourced or labelled, delivered as PDF, editable Word, 1-page brief, and IC memo.

Options on any engagement: a 90-day refresh, the pipeline re-run as a diff against your original report; an IC-memo export in your committee's format; and Watch, from $300/mo, monthly monitoring with a short "what changed" memo. Ask in your brief.

Every low price works with proof and gets doubted without it. We ran the engine blind on a $2.1M acquisition that later went bankrupt and it said do not close: every issue public records could reach, surfaced, and the full scoring published. Read the backtest.

Where this sits in the market

What diligence costs everywhere else.

Three rungs, and a gap in the middle where most SMB deals actually live.

Under $750

Opinions about an idea. Polls, automated reports, gig-site reviews. Nobody on this rung opens a P&L.

$199 to $750

A screening. A 45-minute call, or a pre-LOI vetting opinion. Useful, but not a document a lender can use.

From $11,000

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.

How we plug into your deal without a single call is the other half of that answer.

Prices verified August 2026 against published vendor pricing.

The Verdict guarantee

Useful, or your money back. If the report is not something you can act on, tell me within 7 days and I refund it in full.
I stand behind the verdict. If I miss a material red flag that was publicly knowable when I wrote it, I refund you and tell you what I missed.

No forms, no argument. One name signs every report, and the refund is on me.

A bound Verdict report with a green ribbon marker resting on its executive brief, in soft window light

What the fee buys, in your handsVerdict · Pricing

What that buys, in practice

Two ways this plays out.

Scenario · acquisition

A search fund is a week from signing an LOI. The report surfaces that the target's largest customer is roughly 40% of revenue, disclosed nowhere in the seller's materials. The wire waits until the question is answered.

Scenario · backtest

An angel runs the backtest against a deal they already closed. It independently surfaces the two risks their own memo caught, plus a supplier dependency it didn't. That delta is the product.

Illustrative scenarios, not client engagements. A real client quote replaces this block the day one exists.

A deliberate pace

The quality holds because the volume doesn't.

A limited number of reports run at a time. If your timeline is tight, take the Express tier, otherwise the queue is honest about when your report lands.

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Questions

Straight answers.

Most engagements run $2,500 to $4,000, scoped to the complexity of the deal, and your exact flat quote arrives in writing within one business day. For calibration: a traditional quality-of-earnings engagement runs $20,000 to $30,000 and takes weeks. Verdict delivers in five days, or 48 hours on Express. And the backtest stands: bring a deal you've already closed and compare my report to what your team found, before you pay for anything.
Structure, sourcing, and the discipline to look for what's wrong. A single prompt gives you a plausible summary. This researches each dimension separately, checks claims against sources, and is built to surface red flags rather than smooth them over. You get a citable artifact, not a paragraph.
The company name, its website, and the decision you're making. Optionally, the concerns you want prioritized and any documents you can share. Under two minutes.
Send the company and the decision, about two minutes, no call. Within one business day you get a fixed quote with a committed delivery date. If you go ahead, payment is by Stripe link and the delivery date in your quote stands. The report lands as PDF, Word, the 1-page brief, and an IC memo, backed by the guarantee.
I check that before quoting. Scoping includes a feasibility read on how far the public record, plus anything you can share, will actually carry a verdict. If it cannot support a report worth paying for, I say so before you commit and decline the engagement. Registries, filings, court records, hiring signals, and the documents you provide often take a small company further than you expect.
Every material claim is sourced or flagged as inference. The highest-stakes facts are checked by hand before a report ships. Where a signal is thin, the report says so rather than inventing confidence.
No, it does the week of structured research so your judgment goes to the decision. You walk into the management call already knowing what to ask.
Yes. The report is yours to share within your organisation and with the client, co-investors, or deal team the engagement was run for. Posting it publicly or reselling it as a standalone product needs written permission first.
Yes. Deal flow is sensitive and I treat it that way. I never contact the target, never disclose who asked, and never publish or reuse client work. The published sample is my own demonstration piece, built entirely from public sources and produced on my own initiative. Anything you share, including documents, stays between us. If you prefer an NDA before naming the target, I will sign yours.
Reply and say what's missing, and I'll go deeper on any section at no charge. And the Verdict guarantee stands: if it still is not something you can act on, tell me within 7 days for a full refund. The aim is a report you'd act on.

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Pick a tier above and send it over. You'll have a quote and a confirmed delivery date within one business day, and the report by the end of the week, or in 48 hours on Express.

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