Tier 2 of 3 · Deal Screen — most buyers start here

€550. The full public-record screen:
what could kill this deal, and what must you demand?

Delivered in 48 hours as a two-page Decision Memo plus evidence annex. Each within-scope source read in full — registry with its corporate-acts history, insolvency, courts, licences (sources that can't be retrieved are logged, not skipped) — plus the local-competition module for premises-based businesses. No seller documents needed at this tier; the memo tells you exactly which to demand before any deposit.

€550 · final price, no VAT added

01 What you receive

Every artifact in the memo, named.

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Engagement block — report number, version, prepared-for, target, sources count. Your memo lists its own evidence base: the receipt is in the document.

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The verdict + Deposit Decision Box — Walk · Only-If · Resolve-first · No public-record blocker, with up to three numbered conditions and explicit walk-away triggers. The screenshot you send your partner.

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Up to 10 numbered findings with the arithmetic shown — each one: Observation → Evidence (source + date) → What it means in € (formula printed) → Action, with severity Resolve-first / Negotiate / Monitor. Where an area shows no issue, the memo records what was checked and on what basis — a quiet file is reported, never padded.

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The depth €99 can't reach — corporate-acts history (who owned it, capital and statutory changes), insolvency and courts beyond one pass, licence transfer conditions. Sources that couldn't be retrieved on the day are logged with the reason, not silently skipped.

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The competition module — the venues around the premises, counted and dated, tested against the claimed revenue. For premises-based businesses this section is mandatory, not optional.

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Where the deal type supports them: the revenue-plausibility capacity model with its assumptions printed · the per-employee severance table (two-track statutory formula) · the tax-succession shield map with its timing.

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Demand-before-deposit checklist — each item tied to a finding number: exactly what to require from the seller, before any LOI or deposit.

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Traffic lights + coverage meter + the blind-spot box — what was checked, what needs the seller's documents, and what no desk can see, named out loud.

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Evidence annex — every source with its retrieval date and strength rating. Re-runnable by you or your lawyer.

Named before you pay: some questions come back "cannot clear". Not a fifth verdict — the verdict stays one of the four above. "Cannot clear" is what the memo says about a specific question when the public record does not answer it — most often, who the public record shows as having held this business before your seller. When that happens, the memo states it in terms: which sources were run, with which queries and on which dates, why the checked public layer stops answering there, and which evidence comes next — and who obtains it. You are paying to see where the checked public sources reached their limit, before your money moves. A cannot-clear memo still owes you all four guaranteed elements below — if any of them is missing, the guarantee applies in full.
The guarantee applies to every Screen: four named elements — the verdict, the risk finding (the deal-defining risk, or the explicit "no public-record blocker found" statement where the covered sources show none), the demand checklist, the dated source list. Any of them missing: I fix it in 2 working days or you choose a full refund or credit. And the €550 credits toward a Reality Check for the €400 difference within 30 days of delivery.
02 The method behind this tier

What the Deal Screen is a hybrid of.

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Buy-side red-teaming — adversarial review borrowed from security practice: the deal must prove itself; every seller claim is treated as an assertion to test, not a fact to summarise.

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Base-rate analysis — the outside view: what typically kills deals of this type, drawn from published court records and sector statistics, before looking at what makes this one feel special.

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Public-record forensics — registry with its corporate-acts history, insolvency, courts, licensing — each within-scope source read in full, with retrieval dates logged.

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Site-assessment conventions from retail analysis — the competition module: venues counted and dated around the premises, tested against the claimed revenue.

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Reporting standards from the inspection and pentest genres — numbered findings with an evidence chain, severity ratings, and limits stated on the page.

Sources: official registries and statute databases (BOE/DRE and the public registers), published court records, sector base rates, and practitioner literature on small-business transfers. The working checklists and decision rules built on top of these stay internal — sources are open, the method's edge is the synthesis.

03 Read it before you buy it

A worked sample and a real practice run.

The illustrative Decision Memo shows the full format with the arithmetic end-to-end; the practice memo is a real Lisbon listing worked through the same protocol, findings and all.

Sample Decision Memo Practice memo — Lisbon café A "no desk blocker" outcome
04 What to bring — and how far it takes this memo

Tick what you hold — the scale shows
how firmly this screen can stand.

The scale is Verification Depth for this tier: how firmly the screen's conclusions can rest on evidence — driven entirely by what you provide. It never measures the quality of the deal or promises findings: the memo delivers its full stated format at any depth.

Verification Depth — Deal Screen

How firmly this screen's conclusions can rest on evidence — driven entirely by what you provide. Not a verdict on the deal, not a promise of findings.
Tick what you hold — the scale fills as the memo gets more to stand on.
Red means little is on the table yet — the memo still delivers its full format. The biggest lifts are the legal name and the NIF: they open the registry stack that this tier reads in full.
Check my deal → Opens the secure intake: your details and materials, a deal ID on the spot — no payment until I've confirmed your deal is a fit.
05 Not included — said out loud

The honest edges of €550.

This tier analyses no seller financials at all — no accounts, no bank statements, no earnings reconstruction; it tells you exactly which documents to demand so the next tier can. No document authentication, no valuation, no legal or tax advice. And no tier, at any price, reaches beneficial ownership, pending first-instance lawsuits or private credit records — those are named as blind spots for your lawyer, never buried. One evidence base per order: documents that arrive after the clock starts join an upgrade (€550 → Reality Check for the €400 difference), never the running engagement.

Serious about one listing?

Check my deal → Read the sample first

Secure intake · deal ID on the spot · no payment until I confirm it's a fit · every memo personally signed · commercial opinion, not legal advice.