Cited Brief System: Due Diligence Brief With Citations
by Marius Andronie
Get a deal brief with source references, financial highlights, risks and unanswered questions.
Founder of Devaland. I build Deal OS, due diligence software for buyers of small companies: every claim in the brief is cited to its source page, or it gets cut. Author of the open-source open-deal-kit on GitHub. Try it: https://getdealos.tech/sandbox?utm_source=agensi&utm_medium=profile&utm_campaign=creator-bio
by Marius Andronie
Get a deal brief with source references, financial highlights, risks and unanswered questions.
by Marius Andronie
Turn a rough 'I want to buy a business' into a sharp, testable acquisition thesis with hard criteria and disqualifiers.
by Marius Andronie
Draft the message that moves a first conversation toward real information, a teaser, CIM, or basic financials.
by Marius Andronie
Read a teaser / one-pager like a skeptical buyer, plain-English summary, the cited key facts, what's conspicuously missing, and the three questions to ask...
by Marius Andronie
Scan early deal material for the warning signs that quietly kill deals, concentration, owner dependence, lumpy revenue, add-back abuse, deferred capex, each...
by Marius Andronie
Score any acquisition opportunity across nine criteria the moment a teaser or CIM lands, and get a pursue / hold / pass verdict out of 18.
by Marius Andronie
Write owner-direct acquisition outreach, a short first message plus two follow-ups that earn replies without sounding like a broker.
by Marius Andronie
Give a plain reality check on price before you anchor, the implied multiple shown, whether it's rich/cheap/fair for the profile, what you'd be betting on,...
by Marius Andronie
Pressure-test the market story a seller tells, separate the CIM's quoted claims from a grounded estimate, flag what's vague, and surface the competitive...
by Marius Andronie
Prep a sharp, high-signal management meeting, a focused agenda, the questions that matter most with follow-ups, the tells to listen for, and what to verify...
by Marius Andronie
Sketch, roughly, transparently, whether a deal works on leverage: sources-and-uses, debt-service cover, a conservative/base/optimistic returns sketch, and...
by Marius Andronie
Turn your diligence into a clean, honest IC-style memo, opportunity, business, cited financials, the investment case, the real risks, valuation, open items,...
by Marius Andronie
Force a clean go / no-go before committing real diligence time, case for, case against, what must be true, and a recommendation with confidence.
by Marius Andronie
Turn a P&L / balance sheet / financial section into a plain-English read, trend, margins, the adjusted-EBITDA add-backs one by one, working capital, and the...
by Marius Andronie
The questions a ten-person deal team would ask without thinking, organised by area (financial, commercial, operations & people, legal & the deal), plus a...
by Marius Andronie
Build a focused, thesis-fit list of acquisition targets with search angles, fit rationale and the biggest risk per type.
by Marius Andronie
Keep diligence and closing organized, a categorised document checklist, status per item, the gaps blocking progress, and anything received that raises a new...
by Marius Andronie
Stress-test revenue quality and customer risk, concentration, stickiness, the 'what if we lost the top customer' scenario, and the gaps to close.
by Marius Andronie
Frame a sensible valuation range with the logic shown, the right approach (EBITDA / SDE / revenue), a reasoned multiple range, where this business sits, and...
by Marius Andronie
A step-by-step consultant that scores your repetitive work, picks the first job worth automating and writes it on one screen, with a never list and draft mode.