Arkon GroupModuleInorganic growthCommercial Due Diligence
Three weeks per target is too slow.
Commercial Due Diligence prices a deal on the target’s own numbers — a four-dimension, deal-comparable read on each target in days, not weeks.
Outcome · Per-target attractiveness read
From three weeks to days.
- 50-70% cycle compression
- Against a traditional 3-week banker exercise — the Market Scan output is already populated when CDD picks up the target.
- Days, not weeks
- Per-target attractiveness read in days. Delivered once, with no subscription.
- 4-dimension pack
- Commercial · operational · financial · cultural — each with score, verdict band and named mechanism, deal-comparable across candidates.
Ranges illustrative — your audit returns the acquisition finding specific to your market; the diligence pack is what this module delivers.
What moves the number
Four dimensions, every mechanism named.
Dimension-score grid
Market position, segment health, customer concentration, channel posture, pricing realisation — each with a score, a verdict band and the reason behind it.
Risk surfaces with confidence bands
Concentration, switching cost, regulatory, channel dependency — each with a confidence band; low-confidence risks are hypotheses to validate, not commitments.
Value-creation lever roadmap
Operational and commercial improvements and multiple-expansion theses, sequenced by integration readiness and lever-tagged for the post-close roadmap.
Deal-comparable across candidates
A consistent pack across targets, so the deal team decides like-for-like which candidates progress to legal DD.
Methodology · Commercial-diligence pack
Four-dimension attractiveness, deal-comparable.
- How is this different from legal / financial diligence?
- CDD carries the commercial substance — market position, concentration, channel posture, pricing realisation, the lever map. Legal and financial diligence stay with your own advisers; we own the commercial read. A consultant can join at a flat €1,500 a day.
- What does the handoff from Market Scan preserve?
- The full evidence trail: the thesis, the strategic-fit score, the owner-readiness signal and valuation plausibility carry forward, so the dimension-score grid extends the scan rather than starting 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.
Five minutes, €0: what one median acquisition in your market adds to your P&L. This module delivers the four-dimension pack on a named target.