For Acquirers · SaaS · Ecommerce · Content

Know what you're really buying.

Fixed-price diligence for digital acquisitions under $10M — financial verification plus the checks a standard QoE never touches: revenue authenticity, traffic quality, platform risk, and what the business actually costs to operate without its founder.

Talk Through a Deal

~50

software companies evaluated/acquired as M&A advisor at Carbon6 — roughly one per month

multi-million dollar exits as a founder — he's been the seller too

130+

AI systems running his own software company — he knows what operations look like under the hood

Seller-reported numbers are a starting point. Not an answer.

"For every dollar that you see, you have to think it could be 60 cents, or $1.40."— a small-business diligence provider, on SMB financials

Full QoE runs $20–40K and doesn't pencil on a sub-$2M deal — so buyers skip diligence exactly where sellers are least audited. Digital assets add failure modes accountants don't test: inflated MRR, paid-traffic masquerading as organic, single-platform dependency, codebases one departure away from unmaintainable.

Three products. Flat prices. Fast.

Entry · New

Listing Teardown

$200 · 24 hours · any public listing

Watching a listing on Flippa, Acquire, or anywhere else? Send the URL and get a written read in 24 hours: what the public surface supports, what it does not, and the questions to ask before you go further. Fully credited toward the Red-Flag Scan.

Get a Teardown — $200

Pre-LOI

Red-Flag Scan

$950 · 48 hours

Before you spend months on a deal: listing claims vs. observable reality, revenue plausibility, traffic sanity check, platform/transfer risk, seller history. A kill-or-continue read, in writing.

Book the Scan — $950

Pre-Close

Digital Deal Diligence

$5,900 flat · 5–7 days · sub-$2M digital deals

Financial verification against source systems, MRR/churn reconstruction, traffic authenticity analysis, platform and transfer risk, codebase/infrastructure review — and the AI Ops Underwrite below.

Start Diligence — $5,900

Included · the part nobody else does

The AI Ops Underwrite

Every report ends with a quantified model of what the business looks like with a modern AI operations layer installed: which manual loops disappear, what the owner-hours requirement drops to, and what that does to the P&L you're underwriting. You're not just buying what it is — you're buying what it becomes. (Post-close, we install that layer: projects from $15K or from $3K/mo.)

Straight talk: we are not a CPA firm and this is not an audit. For SBA deals requiring CPA-prepared QoE, we work alongside your provider — our scope covers what theirs doesn't.

Built for how small digital deals actually go wrong.

Revenue that doesn't survive contact with Stripe/Seller Central source data
"Organic" traffic that's actually paid, expiring, or AI-referral-fragile
Owner-dependence that turns the asset into a job you just bought
Platform risk: one account suspension, algorithm change, or API policy from zero
Add-backs and family payroll inflating EBITDA on Main Street financials
Codebases and ops stacks that cost more to run than the seller admits

Have a deal in front of you?

Bring it to a 30-minute call. You'll leave with an honest read on whether it deserves diligence at all — no charge, no pitch.

Start a Scan or Diligence

Want to talk it through first? Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. · Email hello@zonspark.com