Catch potential dealbreakers before six-figure due diligence does.
A red-flag pre-FDD memo on the deal’s critical areas - in 48 hours.
Expert behind every call · Fixed fee · 48-hour turnaround
The problem
By the time FDD finds a dealbreaker, you’ve already paid for it.
Money spent on a deal that dies in due diligence is gone for good.
Dealbreakers are expensive to discover late
A dealbreaker found deep into FDD has already cost you six figures in fees - and weeks of your team’s time - on a deal that now needs a risky renegotiation or won’t close. Splitting diligence into phases rarely helps: it’s hard to arrange, and most of the spend is sunk before the problem surfaces.
In-house review is practically impossible
Your investment team’s time is your scarcest resource. Spending it combing a dataroom file by file isn’t review - it’s a senior team doing work that doesn’t justify their cost. And in a competitive process, there’s rarely room to fit a two-week internal review in before full diligence even begins.
Consumer AI tools will not help
Dropping a few dataroom files into a chatbot and asking it to “find the risks” doesn’t work - raw documents blow past context limits, and a model left to do the arithmetic is inconsistent on exactly the numbers that matter. It also often breaches the NDA terms you’re bound by.
Knowing late costs you leverage
A problem found before you commit lets you walk, reprice, or restructure from a position of strength. The same problem found mid-FDD - after time, fees, and internal buy-in are sunk - quietly pressures you to push the deal through anyway.
The solution
A 48-hour red-flag review, with an expert behind every call.
How preFDD catches it first.
Every finding is sourced
Each red flag points back to a quote in the documents - something you can put to the seller, not an opinion you have to re-check.
Focused where deals actually break
It goes deep on the areas that kill deals - accounting irregularities, earnings quality, customer and supplier concentration, related parties, and other sector-specific areas.
Built to hold up under scrutiny
Every figure is checked and cross-checked before it reaches the memo - so the findings stand up when your IC or the seller pushes back.
Works with whatever you’ve got
No clean or complete dataroom required. preFDD reviews the materials as they stand and tells you where the gaps and soft spots are.
A human stands behind every call
A senior practitioner signs off on every memo. The AI does the heavy lifting; a person takes responsibility for the judgement.
How it works
You share the dataroom; we do the rest.
No lengthy onboarding. Sign an NDA, send what you have, and get a memo in 48 hours.
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Sign an NDA
We’re confident in how we handle data, so we’ll sign your NDA - without slowing things down.
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Share the materials
Send whatever is in the dataroom - financials, CIM, ledgers, contracts - in any major European language.
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We review the critical areas
preFDD works the areas where deals break and pulls every red flag back to a source in your documents.
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A senior reviewer signs off
A practitioner checks and stands behind the findings before anything reaches you.
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You get the memo
Red flags, the questions to ask the seller, and the workings - ready to act on.
What you get
One memo that tells you what to do next.
Built to be read by a deal team and defended to an investment committee - line by line.
Red flags in the critical areas
What we found in the areas that matter most - each one tied to a quote in your documents.
What to ask the seller
A ranked list of the questions to clarify before diligence - so your FDD is aimed, not exploratory.
The workings behind it
An Excel appendix with the cross-checks and reconciliations, so every finding can be traced.
A clear read on where it stands
A plain-English summary of the overall picture - so you know how serious what we found really is.
How it arrives
Data protection & confidentiality
Your deal data is handled like the sensitive material it is.
Your materials go to one AI provider, under commercial terms that prohibit using them to train any model and zero data retention - and nowhere else.
Never used to train AI
A contractual guarantee from our AI provider - not a setting that can quietly change.
One short, named supplier list
One AI provider and one EU storage provider - easy for procurement to clear, no “various AI tools.”
Your data stays in the EU
Documents are stored in the EU and never leave that footprint at rest.
Not exposed to the open web
The review system is locked down and access-controlled, never served to the public networks.
Deleted on request
Once the engagement closes, your materials are removed on request after delivery.
Happy to share our sub-processor list and data-handling terms with your compliance team before any materials are sent.
Pricing
One fixed price per deal.
No subscription, no minimum, no surprises. One memo, one price - a fraction of what a broken due diligence would cost.
Full pricing detailPre-FDD memo
fixed fee
- Full review of the critical areas
- Sourced red-flag memo (PDF + Word)
- The questions to put to the seller
- Excel appendix with the workings
- Senior sign-off
- 48-hour turnaround