Know which deal is worth the diligence budget before you commit to one.
Built from the CIM, financials, and listing materials. No seller cooperation, no NDA choreography, no site visit. Screen several listings for a fraction of what one quality of earnings review costs.
- Built from the deal file you already have
- No seller access or cooperation required
- Operational risk and key-person dependency
- What transfers at close and what does not
- Cost-reduction opportunities nobody priced
- The questions to put to the seller
- Credits toward full buy-side diligence
A read on the business before you spend the diligence budget.
You are looking at more than one listing. Committing full diligence to the wrong one costs thirty thousand dollars and six weeks you will not get back. This tells you which deal is worth that.
Built entirely from the paperwork you already have. Nobody at the target ever knows we looked.
You send the deal file
The CIM, the financials, the listing materials, and anything else the broker gave you. That is all we need.
We read what the numbers sit on
What software the business runs on, what transfers at close, what depends on the owner personally, and what the operating costs suggest about how it is actually run.
You get a report in five business days
Findings, the questions to put to the seller, and a plain read on whether this deal deserves the rest of your diligence money.
No seller involvement means no friction, and nothing telegraphed.
Nothing to negotiate
No access request, no NDA round, no scheduling with a seller who is already nervous. The engagement is between you and us.
Nothing to telegraph
Asking a seller for system access before LOI signals how serious you are and gives them information about your process. This does not.
A $3M business that looked clean everywhere else.
Financials fine, legal fine, CIM fine. Built from the broker’s deal file alone, the report also found a documented $24,428 gap between two systems of record and a contractor network that existed entirely in the departing owner’s head.
Before you decide.
What is a pre-LOI screen?
A technology and operations read on an acquisition target built entirely from the CIM, financials, and listing materials. It requires no seller cooperation, no NDA process, and no site visit, and is delivered in five business days for $2,500.
Why screen before LOI instead of during diligence?
Full diligence on a small acquisition costs $25,000 to $100,000 and takes weeks. Screening several listings first tells you which one deserves that spend.
Does the seller know you looked?
No. The engagement is between you and Onizuka Studio, built from documents already in your possession.
What does the screen actually examine?
What software the business runs on, whether licenses and data transfer at close, which processes are undocumented, where the operation depends on the departing owner personally, and what modernisation would cost a new owner.
Does the fee credit toward anything?
Yes. The $2,500 credits toward buy-side Technology and Operations Diligence if you proceed with the deal.
Full diligence picks up where the screen stops.
The $2,500 credits toward buy-side Technology & Operations Diligence if you go forward, so screening costs you nothing on the deal you actually buy.