JW Strategy Partners delivers pre-LOI intelligence for private equity buyers. Our flagship protocol, BLACK, surfaces valuation-critical risk in 72 hours — no access required.
Most diligence starts after the LOI, when price is anchored and capital is committed. By then, momentum overrides judgment. We move the critical question upstream, where it creates leverage instead of liability.
The BLACK Protocol
A fixed protocol, not an open-ended engagement.
10 sector-calibrated binary questions. Audio-recorded. 30 minutes.
24-hour submission window. Timestamped artifacts or nothing.
Binary scoring against governance frameworks. No subjective judgment.
Proceed, reprice, restructure, or walk. With evidence.
Risk signals surface before the LOI, when they can still inform valuation and structure.
Zero system access. Zero infrastructure scanning. The target never knows the buyer is looking.
Every finding traces to a timestamped artifact. Aligned with ILPA, ISO 27001, and COSO frameworks.
Fixed protocol. Fixed timeline. No scope creep, no open-ended consulting.
$24M in valuation adjustments across $673M in deal value. Five sectors. Zero system access.
→ $1M+ in post-close remediation avoided
→ Without us: $4M+ exposure and deal re-trade
Read case study →→ $750K+ in remediation and timeline drag avoided
→ Without us: IP dispute, $3M+ rewrite, deal collapse
Read case study →→ $700K in diligence savings, IC approval in 4 days
→ Without us: $180M paid for fake AI, $2M+ migration
Read case study →→ $500K+ in post-close remediation avoided
→ Without us: IP claim post-close, services sold as software
Read case study →→ $500K in post-close savings from vendor cleanup
→ Without us: $1M+ holiday outage, failed data migration
Read case study →Every deal above passed the pitch deck. Every founder believed their own narrative. We found the gap in 72 hours.
"It all seems like a lovely kind of logical, obvious thing in lots of ways. Which is how the best things should start, right?"
Executive Headhunter, 20+ years
We work with firms pricing tech-enabled acquisitions where access is constrained and posture risk can swing valuation or structure.
Engagements are reserved for sponsors with active deal flow.
Following qualification, we align on a fixed protocol with outcome-linked participation. No open-ended consulting. No hourly billing.
Schedule a CallCapacity is limited. Prior qualification required.