The exact rules
When the money actually moves.
“Escrow on every deal” is a claim anyone can make. Here is ours in checkable form: the whole rule, in order, mirrored from the deal room that enforces it. Nothing releases until every line is true.
- Transfer the Shopify store
- Re-verify Shopify Payments for the new owner
- Move the Google Ads account
- Transfer the domain
The buyer funds the full amount, in escrow
The whole sale price goes to the licensed escrow partner before anything transfers. It never touches a Kairos account.
Both sides sign the APA
The asset purchase agreement is signed and on the deal before the handover starts. No signature, no transfer.
Every critical asset is handed over and ticked off
Each one has to move and be marked done. One critical item still open blocks the close. The exact list, straight from the handover playbook the deal room runs on:
The buyer confirms the handover
The buyer is the one who closes the deal, not us and not the seller. Their confirmation is what moves it to closed.
Only then do the funds release
Escrow pays out on close. Our success fee is auto-deducted at that moment, before the seller is paid. Cancel before close and no fee is charged - we only get paid when you do.
The wider picture - read-only data, NDA leak tracing, the audit log - lives on Security & escrow. What happens after the money moves is on After the close.
A rule you can read beats a promise you must trust.
Every Kairos deal closes under these exact conditions. Browse the stores whose numbers were proven the same way.