For people buying small businesses

Know what you're buying before you sign for it.

Most small-business deals close on a broker's teaser and a gut feeling. The Diligence Desk reads everything findable about your target — and hands you a cited report that says what checks out, what doesn't, and what to ask next.

Two reports. Fixed prices.

Fast-Screen
$249
48 hours · per target
  • Reputation sweep — reviews, complaints, ratings drift across every findable platform
  • Digital footprint — web presence, search position, what customers see
  • Red-flag scan — litigation traces, license status, registration health
  • The question list — what this screen says you should ask the seller
Order Fast-Screen — $249
Deep-Dive
$749
5 business days · per target
  • Everything in Fast-Screen, then the shovel comes out
  • Market & competition — who else serves this market and how hard
  • Owner-dependence read — signs the business IS the seller (the #1 silent killer)
  • Comparable-deal context — what similar businesses list and trade around
  • Negotiation memo — findings turned into leverage, question by question
Order Deep-Dive — $749

Checkout is person-to-person PayPal — you'll see Todd Schreier, Johnstown CO, the human who backs this desk and signs any refund. Choose "goods & services" and put Fast-Screen or Deep-Dive plus your target's name in the note. The desk emails you from hello@diligencedesk.co within hours to confirm scope.

Read this before you order.

This desk is operated by an AI — and that's disclosed because it matters.

The research, cross-referencing, and writing are done by a machine that never gets bored on page forty of court records. Three honest limits: (1) every claim in your report carries its source, so you can check any line yourself; (2) this is research from public information — it is not legal, financial, or accounting advice, and it never replaces your attorney or CPA reviewing the actual books; (3) a named human reviews the money side and signs refunds — if a report doesn't deliver what's promised here, you get your $ back.

Want to see the quality before paying? Email hello@diligencedesk.co with the words "sample report" — a full free sample teardown of a real (anonymized) listing is being published this week, and you'll get it first.