Operational due diligence for business acquisitions
Know what a business runs on — before it changes hands.
A business can look ready to close while its domain, payroll, phones, software, payments, and critical vendor accounts still belong to the seller.
Acqufio discovers those operational dependencies, verifies what matters, and shows buyers and brokers what needs attention before Day 1.
Think of it as operational due diligence for the systems behind the business.
Financial due diligence tells you what the business earns. Acqufio helps show whether the business can actually keep operating when ownership changes.
Closing the deal doesn’t transfer the business.
Ownership changes on paper in a moment. Operational control often doesn’t.
The domain belongs to the seller
The website and email may depend on a registrar account tied to a personal login.
Payroll belongs to a departing administrator
The new owner discovers after closing that nobody can run payroll.
The phone follows the old payment method
A critical business number or telecom account remains tied to the seller.
A vendor requires new-owner approval
POS, merchant processing, software, utilities, or other critical services may require re-registration or vendor sign-off.
One business. Dozens of hidden dependencies.
Acqufio turns scattered operational evidence into a structured, reviewable inventory.
- Domain & DNS
- Email & productivity
- Phone & internet
- Payroll
- POS
- Merchant processing
- Accounting
- CRM
- Cloud services
- Website & hosting
- Utilities
- Insurance
- Scheduling
- Security
- Online listings
- Software & SaaS
- Vendor accounts
From seller inbox to closing-ready report.
- 01
Broker starts the deal
Create the acquisition workspace and invite the seller.
- 02
Seller connects a source
The seller authorizes Acqufio to inspect relevant operational evidence.
- 03
Acqufio discovers dependencies
Accounts, vendors, services, ownership signals, renewals, and potential transfer risks are identified.
- 04
Seller reviews once
The seller confirms, rejects, merges, or adds missing operational assets.
- 05
Acqufio creates the handoff report
Buyer and broker receive the appropriate due-diligence view, while seller evidence remains protected.
Seller effort: one connection, one review.
A report designed to sit inside the deal file.
Not another dashboard screenshot.
The Business Handoff Report is a stable transaction artifact — designed to sit beside attorney, CPA, lender, and broker work product.
- Business
- Example Dental Group
- Closing
- September 15, 2026
- Day-1 Continuity
- 72/ 100
- Operational assets
- 41
- Critical blockers
- 3
- Seller-confirmed
- 32
- Vendor-confirmed
- 6
| Severity | Operational Asset | Finding | Provenance | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRITICAL | exampledental.example | Registrar account held under seller's personal login | Seller confirmed | Blocker |
| HIGH | Gusto — Payroll | Sole administrator departs at closing | Vendor documented | Action required |
| HIGH | Merchant processing | New-owner verification required before transfer | Platform researched | Action required |
| MEDIUM | Business phone line | Billing follows seller's personal card | AI inferred | Needs review |
| CLEARED | Practice management software | License assignable to new entity | Vendor confirmed | Cleared |
- Numbered
- Versioned
- Provenance-labeled
- Print-ready
- Permissioned
Give buyers fewer Day-1 surprises.
Business brokers already coordinate financials, leases, financing, closing documents, and seller transition.
Acqufio adds the operational layer.
Find issues earlier
Surface operational dependencies before they become post-closing emergencies.
Create a better-prepared seller
Give the seller a structured checklist instead of discovering transfer problems one vendor at a time.
Standardize another part of the deal
Use the same handoff workflow across transactions instead of rebuilding the process from scratch.
Built for repeat use across broker-managed transactions.
AI can find a clue. Acqufio shows what is actually known.
Every operational asset carries a provenance label describing how the information was established — and a label never advances on its own.
Acqufio never presents an AI inference as vendor-confirmed fact.
- AI inferredA signal suggests the asset exists. Not yet established.
- Seller confirmedThe seller reviewed the asset and affirmed it.
- Platform researchedAcqufio verified the vendor's documented transfer process.
- Vendor documentedWritten vendor policy supports the finding.
- Vendor confirmedThe vendor directly confirmed the account and its transfer path.
The buyer does not get the seller’s inbox.
Seller-controlled access
The seller connects and revokes access directly.
Evidence stays private
Raw mailbox evidence is not exposed to the buyer or broker by default.
Only the transaction result is shared
The buyer receives appropriately permissioned findings and provenance — not the seller’s mailbox.
Access should be revocable in one action.
Read our Privacy Policy →Starting where operational complexity is visible.
Acqufio’s early pilots focus on dental practices and other small businesses where software, imaging, communications, payroll, merchant services, domains, and vendor accounts must all survive an ownership transition.
Dental practices · Professional services · Restaurants · Local businesses
Before the business changes hands, know what still needs to.
We’re working with a limited number of business brokers and acquisition professionals on early transactions.
Invite-only early access