Buy-side M&A · valuation and due diligence

From target to board decision, at deal speed.

Value the target, diligence the business and take one recommendation to your investment committee — board-grade models, decks and memos in hours, not weeks and six figures of advisory fees.

Valuing a listed target? Enter the tickers and the offer — filings, prices and consensus are pulled for you. Diligencing a business? Upload the data room. Either way every figure is tied to its source, and a reviewer signs off before anything reaches you.

Valuation and diligence on one platform · your data stays private · a reviewer signs off before release

One platform for the whole deal

A board asks two questions about every acquisition: what is the target worth, and is the business what it claims to be. CFO Agent answers both.

Valuation

What is it worth — and what should we pay?

  • Comparable companies and precedent transactions
  • DCF and LBO, with the most a financial sponsor could pay
  • Merger model: accretion / dilution, financing, leverage, breakeven synergies
  • An investment-committee pack and a one-page board summary

You bring: target and acquirer tickers, the offer. The valuation suite →

Due diligence

Is the business what it claims to be?

  • Quality of earnings: adjusted EBITDA, working-capital peg, debt-like items
  • Tax exposures and deal structure
  • Leases (ASC 842 / IFRS 16) and purchase price allocation (ASC 805)
  • Government-contractor compliance

You bring: the data room. The diligence workstreams →

Run both on the same deal: the valuation tells you the price, diligence tells you what changes it.

Valuation — five methods, one recommendation

Pick one pack or the full set. Every pack is built from one deal record, so the comps, the DCF, the LBO and the merger model value the same company at the same offer — and the IC pack can put them on one page.

Comparable companies

A tiered peer set you confirm, each peer spread from its own filings — EV/Revenue, EV/EBITDA and P/E with the interquartile range and the implied value per share.

Precedent transactions

Found for each deal in the target's own industry: every acquisition confirmed in the company's SEC filings, terms read from the announcement, a cash offer checked against the final trading price, and equity value built from the merger agreement when the release does not state it.

DCF

Free cash flow from consensus and the company's own history, a WACC built from the peers' betas, and sensitivities on the operating plan as well as the discount rate.

LBO and ability to pay

Sources and uses, a full debt schedule with cash sweep, IRR and MOIC — and the most a financial sponsor could pay, so you know who competes at your price.

Merger model

Accretion and dilution on EPS and cash EPS, purchase accounting, financing mix, leverage at close and the synergies needed to break even.

IC pack and board summary

All five methods on one football field, a recommendation derived from explicit tests, the walk-away price, and a one-page summary the board reads first.

Available today for US-listed targets, in any industry.

Due diligence — six workstreams

Pick the workstream that fits the deal. Each runs end to end on your data room and returns a tied-out model, findings report and deck.

Financial DD (QoE)

Quality of earnings — normalized EBITDA bridge, net-working-capital peg, debt-like items, and base / downside scenarios.

Tax DD

Target tax exposures (income, sales & use / nexus, payroll, §382) plus deal structure — asset vs stock, §338(h)(10), step-up value.

Leases DD

ASC 842 / IFRS 16 — complete lease register incl. embedded leases, lease liability as debt-like, and cost-synergy opportunities.

Purchase price allocation

ASC 805 / IFRS 3 — identifiable-intangible valuation, goodwill, deferred-tax gross-up, opening balance sheet, and EPS drag.

Government-contractor DD

FAR / DFARS / CAS / DCAA compliance plus quality of earnings — cost allowability, CMMC / SPRS, clearances / FOCI, set-aside size.

Integrated diligence pack

Reconciles the delivered workstreams on one target into one classification map and one equity-value bridge, with no double-count.

How it works

The same four steps whether you are valuing a target or diligencing it.

1

Tell us the deal

For valuation: the target and acquirer tickers, the offer, the cash / stock mix and expected synergies. For diligence: the data room and a short deal context.

2

The engine builds

Market data is pulled, or the data room is read. For a valuation you confirm the proposed peer set — each name with a one-line reason — before the build starts.

3

Checked, then reviewed

Every deck is checked against its model and every pack against the others before a person sees it. Then a reviewer releases it or sends it back.

4

You download the pack

Live-formula models, board decks and memos — ready for your own professional review and your committee.

What you get

Every pack — valuation or diligence — comes back as three tied-out deliverables. The full valuation set adds the investment-committee pack.

Excel model

Formula-driven and multi-tab, every input traceable to a filing, the market data or your data room — in one consistent house style.

Board deck

The recommendation first, then the numbers that support it, with every figure on a slide equal to the model's.

Memo or findings report

The argument in prose: conclusion, basis, risks and mitigants — ranked by dollar impact for diligence, by method for valuation.

IC pack and board summary

With the full valuation set: the cross-method football field, the verdict and walk-away price, and a one-page summary for the board.

Built for how deals actually get decided

Tied to source

Every number traces to a filing, a market close or a document in your data room — never typed in.

Checked before anyone reads it

Decks against models, packs against each other, periods, units and totals — a pack that fails does not reach review.

Draft-first, human-reviewed

Output is a starting draft, not an opinion. A reviewer signs off before release, and you verify before you rely on it.

Invite-only, your data stays yours

Access by invitation. You keep ownership of what you upload; we use it only to produce your deliverables.

See a sample pack

Enter your work email and we'll show you pages from a sample valuation pack and a sample diligence pack, so you can judge the quality before we talk. We follow up about a fit for your deal.