Before You Wire the Money, Know What's Real
We check the store you're about to buy. Any marketplace, any seller - even if the deal has nothing to do with us.
What Kairos Due Diligence Is
Kairos Due Diligence is a paid service for people buying an ecommerce store. You send us the listing and we check it. 5 working days later you get a written report: what we checked, what we found, what we could not confirm, and where the risk is. It costs EUR 1,500 to EUR 5,000 for stores up to EUR 2M, quoted above that. It works on stores listed anywhere: Flippa, Empire Flippers, a broker, a private sale. You do not need an account with us to buy it.
Five Checks a Seller's Story Can't Survive
This is the whole list - what we check, and what we don't. One price per deal, so the list is the job, not a floor for extra hours later.
- 1
We check the seller is who they say
ID on the seller, and proof they actually own the store and the company behind it. We look for co-owners and investors nobody mentioned. Fraud is the thing that kills a marketplace, so it is the first thing we look at, not the last.
- 2
We read the raw data by hand
A person opens the Shopify admin, the ad accounts, and the bank and Stripe statements, and ties every line of the P&L back to them. The machine already cross-checked the APIs. This is different: it is someone looking for the things an API answer cannot show you.
- 3
We go looking for what breaks
One supplier? One product carrying 80% of sales? One ad account the whole thing depends on? A trademark problem, or a wave of chargebacks coming? These are judgement calls, and no automated check makes them.
- 4
We get the seller on a call
Recorded. Why are you selling? What breaks when you leave? What have you not told us? What they say goes in the memo, in their words.
- 5
We check every asset can actually change hands
Verified numbers are worthless if you cannot take the store with you. The classic trap: the ad account is locked to the seller's personal Business Manager, so the pixel history and the audiences do not move, and the price gets reopened the week of close. We check that the ad account, the pixel, the domain, the payment rails and the trademarks can each transfer on their own, and we flag anything that cannot before you sign, not after.
One Price per Deal, Set by the Store
Bigger deals take longer and need a sharper pair of eyes, so they cost more. That's the whole rule, and the table below is all of it.
| Store price | What it costs | Who does it |
|---|---|---|
| Under EUR 100k | EUR 1.5k | Accountant-led |
| EUR 100k up to EUR 500k | EUR 2.5k | Accountant-led |
| EUR 500k up to EUR 2M | EUR 5k | M&A analyst-led |
| Above EUR 2M | We'll quote it | M&A analyst-led |
A written report: what we checked, what we found, what we could not confirm, and where the risk is. Five working days from the day we have your access sorted. No call included - the report is the product, and it is written to be read on its own.
If We Tell You to Walk Away, That Is the Report Working
Sometimes we read the numbers and the answer is: do not buy this. You paid us to find that out before you wired the money, not after. So there is no refund for a walk-away report, and there should not be. Pay us more to say yes than to say no, and you will get a yes every time.
We Are Never Paid by Both Sides
If a seller paid us to verify their listing, we will not then sell you a report on that same listing. You already have our memo. Charging you for the same hours would be taking money from both sides of one deal, and it would quietly admit the badge means nothing. Read the memo. If something in it does not add up, tell us and we will answer for it.
Who Reads Your Numbers
The person opening the Shopify admin and the bank statements works for ZenoX, the agency that runs Google Ads for 200+ ecom stores. We know what a dressed-up P&L looks like, because we see the real one behind it - every day. Chris Krassnig signs every memo.
ZenoX ad-management figures, not Kairos deal volume - Kairos hasn't closed a deal yet.
Tell Us What You're Looking At
No account needed, no payment yet. We confirm it's a job we can do well before we invoice you.
Prefer to talk first? Message us on WhatsApp - a real person replies, and you can send the listing link straight into the chat.