BLACK surfaces valuation-critical risk in 72 hours. Zero access required. Mapped to ILPA, ISO 27001, and COSO.
Insured by Hiscox,
a Lloyd's of London insurer
Fixed protocol · Evidence-accountable
By the time your team gets into the data room, you've already committed — emotionally, financially, and to your IC — to a price based on a deck and a management meeting. BLACK moves the critical question upstream, where it creates pricing leverage instead of post-close 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.
Evidence-grade posture memo. The buyer decides what it means.
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.
The doubter on the deal team doesn't have to fight the room. Quietly authorize a 72-hour protocol — either you surface risk that saves the firm, or you get a clean evidence-backed green light that makes you look diligent. No career risk. No politics.
You already know how these ended
Same protocol. Same binary questions. Each flagged in under 72 hours.
Evidence requests returned empty.
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Modeled scenarios: $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.
"Every sponsor has a deal they wish they'd walked from earlier. BLACK is built for that moment — the 72 hours before commitment when the math can still change."
Pressure-tested across 87 sponsor conversations. 5 sectors. Zero system access.
Firms pricing tech-enabled acquisitions where posture risk swings valuation or structure. The question isn't whether you can afford 72 hours. It's whether you can afford to find out in month three what you could've known before the LOI.
For Operators & Founders
BLACK is for buyers who need to know what they're buying. Deal Economics is for operators and founders who need their numbers to hold up before they raise capital, sign an agreement, or hand a figure to a partner.
You've earned the operating role. What you ask for in the agreement will compound for years. We model the options — base, performance, hybrid, equipment % — and show you where your number is defensible and where it isn't.
From $3,500
Fixed pricing stops working past a certain point. We use behavioral finance and Monte Carlo simulation to identify where your revenue model leaks — and what a restructured approach is actually worth. Validated: +17.5% claim rate, $460K/yr recovered in a single engagement.
From $15,000
Investors don't fund numbers — they fund numbers that hold up under pressure. We stress-test your unit economics, close the assumption gaps, and make sure the financial story you walk in with is the one that survives the first hard question.
From $15,000
The common thread
Behavioral finance and quantitative modeling applied to deals before they close — on both sides of the table.
Capacity is limited to 3-5 engagements per quarter. Fixed protocol. Outcome-linked participation.
30 minutes. We'll show you how this maps to your current situation.
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