SCREEN / FLAG / QUALITY OF EARNINGS
Know the earnings.
Trace the cash.
Examine the adjustments.
The planned financial diligence offering connects the reported numbers to the underlying ledger, customer, bank, and contract record.
INSTITUTIONAL OFFERING
The mandate and its evidence.
Institutional service roadmapThe capabilities below describe the planned institutional offering. The live product is a data-center diligence demonstration with manual source review, provisional screening rules, and IC working drafts. Engagement availability and scope must be confirmed with the founding team.
01 / SCREEN
Before the letter of intent
Verdict Screen is designed to examine a teaser or CIM against sector benchmarks and highlight the questions that merit deeper work.
- Initial scoring and screening context.
- Questions on the earnings case and asset assumptions.
- A basis for selecting the next diligence scope.
02 / FLAG
Focus the full engagement
Verdict Flag is designed to surface earnings, cash, contract, and deliverability flags before a complete diligence mandate.
- EBITDA adjustments, add-backs, and revenue timing.
- Proof-of-cash discrepancies and contract concerns.
- Power, permit, and queue concerns for infrastructure assets.
03 / QofE
Examine the earnings at full depth
Verdict QofE is the proposed full Quality of Earnings engagement, combining complete general ledger coverage, deterministic calculations, and senior partner judgment.
Financial agents would prepare the record; professional review and sign-off would govern the institutional report.
FLAG / PROPOSED DELIVERY WORKFLOW
Prepare quickly.
Review before delivery.
01 / DATA ROOM
Establish the evidence set
Permissioned ERP, trial balance, bank, and contract records define the scope.
02 / ANALYSIS
Map and examine the record
Agents would map the chart of accounts and examine ledger, bank, and contract lines.
03 / FINDINGS
Surface the material flags
Earnings adjustments, timing, cash, and infrastructure deliverability concerns are prepared for review.
04 / REVIEW
Professional sign-off
A senior professional would challenge the findings, approve the flag report, and scope the full engagement.
The original plan targets a 48-hour Flag workflow. This is a development objective, not a currently offered service-level commitment.
FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
Beyond the headline EBITDA.
01Earnings
Adjusted and run-rate EBITDA; related-party, non-recurring, and add-back screens; recognition and cut-off testing.
02Cash & balance sheet
Bank-to-book reconciliation, monthly net working capital pegs, net debt, debt-like items, capex, and deferred revenue.
03Commercial depth
Customer cohorts, net dollar retention, price-volume-mix bridges, SKU and site-level gross margin.
CONTRACTS & THE DATA ROOM
Understand the terms
behind the performance.
Customer concentration and change-of-control terms can matter as much as an earnings bridge.
The planned workflow examines contracts and customer records alongside the numbers. Revision summaries and live data-room monitoring would make new evidence visible as the transaction progresses.
- Contract concentration and change-of-control provisions.
- Revenue obligations and timing linked to source records.
- Changes in the data room connected to open findings.
PROPOSED DELIVERABLES
A workpaper basis.
A committee-ready file.
01Excel workpapers
Code-generated analysis and reconciliation schedules, with a source basis for material adjustments.
02QofE report & data book
Findings on earnings, cash, working capital, debt-like items, and commercial performance.
03IC Verdict Memo
A concise investment committee output connecting the quantitative case, flags, and outstanding conditions.
EVIDENCE REQUIRED
Begin with the record.
- Trial balances and complete general ledger exports.
- Bank feeds or statements for reconciliation.
- Customer-level records, cohorts, contracts, and revenue schedules.
- Working capital, debt, capex, and related-party schedules.
The proposed QofE engagement is transaction consulting, not an audit or attestation. Data access, confidentiality, coverage, and review scope must be agreed before an engagement.
EXPLORE THE SUITE
The next stage
draws on the same evidence.
Screening scopes diligence. Diligence supports the committee. Monitoring follows the investment.
All nine Verdict products →THE NEXT DECISION
Put the evidence on the table.
Explore the live data-center demonstration or speak with the co-founders about financial diligence, infrastructure, credit, and portfolio intelligence.