About
A red-flag review built around the buyer's risks, not the deal.
By the time a full FDD engagement finds a dealbreaker, you’ve already paid for it - six figures in fees and weeks of your team’s time, sunk into a deal that now needs a risky renegotiation or won’t close. Splitting diligence into phases rarely helps, and combing the dataroom in-house isn’t review - it’s your scarcest people doing work that doesn’t justify their cost.
preFDD closes that gap. It’s a structured, senior-led, AI-assisted red-flag review delivered in 48 hours on a fixed fee. It goes deep on the areas where deals actually break, pulls every finding back to a source in your documents, and hands you the ranked questions to put to the seller - while you can still walk, reprice, or restructure from a position of strength.
It isn’t a substitute for full FDD. It tells you whether full FDD is worth commissioning and exactly what to scope it to - so your diligence is aimed, not exploratory.
Principles
How we work.
Disagreement is part of the product.
If the materials don’t support the equity story, the memo says so. We take no success fee, finder’s fee, or economic interest in the transaction - you’re paying for honesty, not enthusiasm.
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.
A human stands behind every call.
The AI does the heavy lifting; a senior practitioner checks the findings, removes the false positives, adds what only judgement catches, and signs off on the memo.
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.
Data protection & confidentiality
Your deal data is handled like the sensitive material it is.
- One AI provider, contractually barred from training on your materials.
- Documents stored in the EU - never leaving that footprint at rest.
- A locked-down review system, never served to the open web.
- Deleted on request once the engagement closes.
Happy to share our sub-processor list and data-handling terms with your compliance team before any materials are sent.