A buyer-perspective view of where due diligence will focus first on your business — one of the four core deliverables of an Exit Desk report.
A Diligence Pressure Map identifies where a serious buyer's diligence team will concentrate their attention when they evaluate your business. Different businesses face different pressure points — for one, it's customer concentration; for another, it's owner dependency; for a third, it's the quality of financial reporting. Built from the buyer's perspective, the Diligence Pressure Map answers a question most sellers don't think about until it's too late: where will the buyer push hardest, and what will they find when they push? It's a core deliverable of the Exit Desk report, applying the same buyer-lens analysis used across $7.4B in transactions to your specific business.
The diligence pressure points you don't know about become the re-trade points the buyer uses against you.
Every serious buyer builds something like this internally before they make an offer — the Diligence Pressure Map is the version a seller can have first.