The brief — AI due diligence, before you decide
You will find out. The only question is when.
Prudence Report is an AI-produced due-diligence dossier on any company — built before you invest, sign, pursue, or bid. Describe the deal, add what you've already got, and in hours you get a written verdict, ranked strengths and risks, the strongest case against the deal, and exactly what's still unknown.
The same decision, two timelines
You approve the deal on the deck they handed you. The gap between the deck and the filings shows up after the ink is dry.
You approve the deal on the deck, the filings, the docket, and the strongest argument against it. The gap shows up on page one.
Yours will be different. The method won't be.
Exhibit A — What counts as a decision
A few examples. Not the only ones.
If real money, your name, or your company's future is riding on a company you don't fully know yet, that's the shape of it — whatever you'd call your role in it.
Capital
Before you wire, lend, or underwrite
Capital efficiency, cap-table and dilution exposure, revenue quality, and reference signals from operators who've actually worked with them.
Career
Before you sign, join, or take the offer
Manager reputation and retention, compensation realism, equity outcome scenarios, and how the culture holds up under pressure.
The deal
Before you sell to, partner with, or acquire
The buying-center map, customer concentration, litigation and regulatory drag, and the integration friction map.
Exhibit B — Before / after
The same decision, seen at two different times.
Every one of these gets decided either way. The only variable is what you knew when you decided it.
Capital
Before you wire, lend, or underwrite
You wire the round on the strength of the pitch deck. Eight months later, a down-round term sheet reveals the cap table has three overlapping liquidation preferences nobody modeled — your "preferred" return is sixth in line to get paid.
You see the actual liquidation stack and the dilution math under a down-round scenario before you wire — not the headline valuation, the waterfall underneath it.
We check: Cap table · Dilution exposure · Revenue quality · Operator references
Career
Before you sign, join, or take the offer
You sign based on the offer call and a good feeling about the hiring manager. Ninety days in, you learn three of their last five direct reports left within a year — you find out in the reorg email.
You see your manager's actual two-year retention record and a realistic — not best-case — read on what the equity is worth before you sign, not after the reorg email.
We check: Manager retention · Compensation realism · Equity scenarios · Culture under pressure
The deal
Before you sell to, partner with, or acquire
You chase or close the deal on the strength of the deck and the relationship. Ninety days later, the buying committee that killed last year's vendor — or the 41% of revenue sitting in two accounts — surfaces after the ink is dry.
You see the buying-center map, customer concentration sized and named, and the docket checked for pending litigation before you spend the quarter or sign the check.
We check: Buying-center map · Customer concentration · Litigation & regulatory drag · Integration friction
Every claim on the right is checked against public filings, court and regulatory records, hiring signals, product cadence, direct operator references, or customer-review forensics — see how a report is built.
Exhibit C — Anatomy of a verdict
What actually arrives in your inbox.
Every Prudence Report follows the same spine. Illustrated here on a fictional case — Vantage Loop, a supply-chain analytics vendor raising a Series C. Full example dossiers (also fictional) are open to read at /examples.
Sample report excerpt — Vantage Loop is a fictional company, invented for illustration
01Verdict
One sentence. Always.
"Proceed — but re-negotiate the earn-out before signing."
02Strengths & Risks
Ranked by weight, not recency.
- +Net revenue retention 128% — top quartile for the categoryHigh weight
- +Founding CTO has stayed through two down roundsMedium weight
- −38% of ARR concentrated in two customersHigh weight
- −Sales leadership has turned over twice in 18 monthsMedium weight
03Markets & Competitors
Who wins if they win.
Vantage Loop's growth mostly comes at the expense of manual planning teams, not its funded competitors — a win here is a bet against spreadsheets before it's a bet against rivals.
04The Dissent
The single strongest opposing view — recorded, not suppressed.
"The bull case assumes both anchor customers renew at current volume. Both enter procurement review within two quarters. If either halves its order, the growth story inverts."— The Dissent, Vantage Loop dossier
05Open Questions
What's still unknown, and how to find out.
- Do the anchor renewals clear before the round closes?
- What does the incoming VP Sales think is broken?
- Has the founder's prior non-solicit actually lapsed?
One price, five reports
One credit follows one decision to the end.
A credit opens one case file — a single company, a single decision. You get the initial report, then four revisions are included: add new or updated material and the full analysis runs again on it. Written report and audio, every time. Pay upfront for a bundle and you lock in a lower rate per credit.
Report credit
$550
- One case file — one company, one decision1 credit
- Initial reportIncluded
- Revisions, re-run on your new material4 included
- Written report + audioEvery run
- Every claim sourced · the dissent recordedIncluded
- TurnaroundHours
- Login requiredNo
Upfront bundles
Each credit is its own case file — its own company, its own report and four revisions. Lock in your rate upfront.
20 reports · 80 included revisions
No account needed to start — you only add an email at checkout, and confirming it afterward is optional.
Before you ask
A few things people ask first
Do I need to make an account?
No. You start by describing the company and adding whatever materials you have, and it autosaves as you go. You only add an email at checkout, and confirming it afterward is optional.
What happens to the materials I upload?
They're used only to prepare your report. They're never sold, shared, or shown to anyone else. The finished report is visible only to you.
How long does it actually take?
Hours, not days, for both packages.
What exactly does one credit buy?
One case file: a single company and a single decision. You get the initial report, then four included revisions — add new or updated material and the full analysis runs again on it. Every run delivers the written report and the audio version. Bundles bring the per-credit price down.
What if the verdict disagrees with what I want to hear?
That's the point of recording the dissent. Every report includes the single strongest opposing view instead of hiding it — that's part of the deliverable, not a flaw in it.
Vide antequam vadas — see before you go
Every deal has a before. Decide which side of it you're on.
Describe the company. Add what you've got. We'll tell you what you'd otherwise find out later.