Before you wire the money, have someone look.
We check the store you're about to buy. Any marketplace, any seller - even if the deal has nothing to do with us.
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 depending on the size of the deal. 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.
Four things a spreadsheet cannot tell you
This is the whole list. It is what you get, and it is also what you don't - it's a fixed fee, so the list is the job.
- 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.
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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.
Priced off the deal, not off your panic
Bigger deals take longer and need a sharper pair of eyes, so they cost more. That's the whole rule.
| 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.
Tell us what you're looking at
No account, no payment yet. We'll confirm it's a job we can do well before we invoice you.