See the Return Potential
Understand the Risks Behind It

Focus your own time on the few questions that decide the investment, and use a structured first pass for the rest. DDScore reviews the company across 12 dimensions, including technology and IP, legal and regulatory, and financials, with external research and written reasoning. It also shows where a specialist opinion is worth paying for.

The assumptions the investment depends on. DDScore gives you an independent first-pass review of the same materials, so you can compare it with the lead's memo and see where you agree and what to ask before committing. It does not verify the lead's own diligence, so ask which checks have actually been completed.

Typically demand, pricing, growth, capital needs, and exit value. DDScore makes them visible: the exit scenarios show which assumptions shape the outcomes, and the findings mark which claims are supported, weak, or missing evidence. The follow-up questions turn the unverified ones into a checklist for your founder conversation.

Look at what the customer evidence proves, not how it is described. DDScore reads pilots, letters of intent, and interviews for what they demonstrate, and checks whether customers have both the need and the budget to buy. Public research cannot confirm private sales, so ask the founder for contracts or invoices where it matters.

DDScore's exit scenarios show whether the upside is credible, not only possible. Each scenario has an estimated probability, return range, and time horizon, and the reasoning shows which assumptions the best outcome depends on. The estimates are most useful when the report includes your investment terms.

It tests the deck instead of restating it. DDScore combines the submitted materials with external research and probability modeling, checks claims against other documents and outside sources, and often finds what the deck leaves out.

Separate traction that is demonstrated from traction that is described. DDScore examines revenue quality, paying customers, pilots, and usage evidence, and the stage benchmark compares the company with others at the same stage.

DDScore's Technology & IP section examines whether the company owns proprietary models, data, or know-how, or mainly builds on third-party AI, and the Competitors section tests how easily others could replicate the product.

Yes; a follow-on decision deserves a fresh look at current evidence. Run DDScore on the company's updated materials and compare the findings with your earlier report, focusing on which findings changed and what evidence changed them.

No. It gives your team a structured first pass so analysts can focus on the questions that matter. Because the reasoning is visible, analysts and partners can challenge a specific finding instead of accepting or rejecting a number. Your team still speaks with founders and customers, resolves uncertainties, and makes the decision.

Start with a structured DDScore analysis. It combines the company's materials with current external research to show the business case, market, competitors, and risks, and its glossary explains the financial, technical, and regulatory terms used. Then take the open questions to sector specialists.

Use the same structure for every company. Each DDScore report covers the same 12 dimensions whatever the sector, so your team can organize unfamiliar information and move from a deck to informed questions.

DDScore checks exactly that. Customer evidence is read for what it proves, so paying contracts, paid pilots, unpaid pilots, letters of intent, and expressions of interest are treated differently.

For legal, tax, financial, and technical diligence on a serious opportunity, usually yes. A DDScore report shows which areas carry the most risk, so you can brief advisers on specific questions instead of commissioning a broad review.

DDScore's exit scenarios estimate possible outcomes with their probabilities, return ranges, and time horizons, and the reasoning shows which assumptions each path depends on. The report shows whether an exit within your horizon fits the company's current evidence.

Yes. An initial report on the available materials gives you a structured view of the business, its risks, and evidence gaps, and shows which open questions could change whether you proceed or what you would pay. The follow-up questions help focus your next information request.

DDScore's Competitors and Business Idea sections include alternatives such as customers doing the work in-house with new tools. External research looks for AI products and platform features that could substitute for the target's service. If the target's value rests on work customers could automate, the report flags it as a competitive risk.

DDScore's Market, Competitors, and Technology & IP sections examine new entrants, platform features, substitute approaches, and technology dependencies, using current external research. The scenarios then show how those risks could change the outcome.

DDScore flags concentration risks that appear in the submitted materials or public sources, such as a few large customers, reliance on one platform, or a single key supplier. If the materials contain no customer or supplier breakdown, the report shows it as an evidence gap to request from the seller.

No to both. The Technology & IP assessment is business-level; code quality, security, and IP ownership may need direct testing and legal review. The scenarios inform your view of the company's prospects but do not establish a price or value synergies; build the transaction model separately with verified figures and your own synergy assumptions.