Module · Layer 3 · Commercial Due Diligence
Commercial diligence takes 3 weeks per target — too slow for the pipeline.
Commercial Due Diligence delivers a per-target attractiveness read in days, not weeks — a four-dimension pack that lands deal- comparable across candidates and feeds straight into the post-close lever roadmap.
Outcome · Per-target attractiveness read
Three-week banker exercise → days-not-weeks per-target pack.
- 50-70% cycle compression
- Diligence cycle compressed against a traditional 3-week banker exercise — the M&A Scan output is already populated when CDD picks up the target.
- Days, not weeks
- Per-target attractiveness read delivered in days. Specialist legal / financial diligence runs in parallel through partner firms; CDD carries the commercial substance.
- 4-dimension pack
- Commercial · operational · financial · cultural — each with score, verdict band, named mechanism. Deal-comparable across candidates so the cabinet decides on substance.
Ranges illustrative — your audit returns the commercial-diligence pack specific to your target.
What moves the number
Four dimensions, every named mechanism on the page.
Dimension-score grid
Commercial fundamentals scored: market position, segment health, customer concentration, channel posture, pricing realisation. Each dimension carries a score, a verdict band, and the named mechanism — not just a number, the reason behind it.
Risk surfaces with confidence bands
Concentration · switching cost · regulatory · channel dependency. Each risk surface carries a confidence band derived from data depth — low-confidence risks surface as hypotheses-to-validate, not as commitments.
Value-creation lever roadmap
Operational + commercial improvements + multiple-expansion theses, sequenced by integration-readiness. Lever-tagged for post-close roadmap handoff — when the deal closes, the levers are already named.
Deal-comparable across candidates
Pack format is consistent across targets so the cabinet decides which candidates progress to legal DD and which fall off the shortlist on a like-for-like basis. The pack is the decision artefact.
Methodology · Commercial-diligence pack
Four-dimension attractiveness, deal-comparable.
- How is this different from legal / financial diligence?
- Commercial Due Diligence carries the commercial substance — market position, customer concentration, channel posture, pricing realisation, value-creation lever map. Specialist legal and financial diligence (where mandated) runs in parallel through partner firms. We don't replace them; we own the commercial read that drives the deal thesis.
- What does cross-tier handoff from M&A Scan preserve?
- The full evidence trail. Every Tier-1 scan signal carries forward — strategic-fit score, owner-readiness signal, valuation envelope plausibility. By the time CDD picks up a target, the scan output is already populated; the dimension-score grid extends rather than starts cold.
- How are risk confidence bands calibrated?
- Each risk surface carries a confidence band derived from data depth — public-disclosure coverage, comparable-deal benchmarks, primary-research access. Low-confidence risks surface as hypotheses-to-validate during management meetings, not as commitments in the pack.
See it for yours.
5 minutes. €0. The free audit returns a first-pass commercial- diligence pack against your current target — the four dimensions, scored and verdict-banded, with the value-creation lever roadmap seeded.