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Financial verification for independent buyers

Before you wire the money,
know what you're buying.

Gut Check connects to your seller's platform data and tells you exactly where the reported numbers don't match reality — in minutes, not weeks, at a price that makes sense for sub-$2M deals.

No credit card. No spam. Early access when we launch.

Optional — takes 20 seconds
Help us build the right thing
Just browsing
1–3 deals
5–10 deals
10+ deals
Verifying seller financials
Deal math & modeling
Tracking seller claims
All three options

You're on the list.

We'll reach out when early access opens. In the meantime, feel free to share this page with other buyers who'd find it useful.

~$2,500
Cost of a manual diligence engagement
3–4 wks
Time to results from a human firm
10–20×
Deals evaluated per offer made

Why this exists

Built by someone who learned
the hard way

After spending time in the micro-acquisition space, one thing becomes clear quickly: small e-commerce financials are frequently inaccurate. Accounting practices vary widely, and the selling platforms themselves produce confusing, overlapping reports.

The problem is that the tools capable of actually verifying those numbers cost thousands of dollars and take weeks to deliver results. That's a reasonable trade-off if you're making one carefully selected offer. It's completely untenable if you're evaluating twenty deals to find the right one.

Independent buyers deserve the same financial verification that private equity gets — at a price and speed that matches sub-$2M transaction reality. That's what Gut Check is built to be.

— Forrest, Founder

The gap in the market

Two tiers of tools.
Neither built for you.

Tier 1 — Human firms

Centurica, WebAcquisition, et al.

Manual P&L rebuilds. Forensic review by a real analyst. Credible results — if you have three weeks and a few thousand dollars per engagement.

$2,500–$5,000+ / deal
Tier 2 — Enterprise platforms

V7 Go, DealRoom, Kira Systems

AI-powered document analysis built for PE firms reviewing VDRs on $10M+ transactions. Priced accordingly. Completely mismatched to your deal size.

Enterprise pricing
The gap — where Gut Check lives

Self-service financial verification for sub-$2M acquisitions

Connect to seller platforms directly. Get a reconciliation report in minutes. Pay a fraction of what human diligence costs. Run it on every deal you're seriously considering — not just the one you've already decided to close.


How it works

Seller claims in.
Delta report out.

01

Upload the seller's financials

Drop in the P&L and any tax returns the seller provided. Gut Check parses the claimed numbers automatically — no manual entry required.

PDF upload / CSV
02

Connect to the source data

Grant read-only access to the seller's Shopify, Etsy, or Amazon store — or upload a CSV export directly. Connect Stripe for payment processor data. Optionally link bank statements via Plaid for deposit-level verification.

Shopify · Etsy · Amazon · Stripe · Plaid
03

Get your reconciliation report

Gut Check compares every data source against the claimed P&L. Discrepancies are flagged by month, category, and magnitude. You get a branded PDF report with methodology, data sources cited, and a clear verdict on whether the numbers add up.

PDF report · Downloadable · Shareable

What Gut Check catches

Three features.
One of them doesn't exist anywhere else.

Financial Reconciliation

Cross-reference the seller's reported P&L against actual platform transaction data, payment processor deposits, and bank feeds. Gut Check surfaces every month where the numbers diverge — and tells you exactly by how much.

"Your Stripe deposits don't match reported revenue by $47K — here's exactly which months and what's driving the gap."

Representation Aggregation

Sellers and brokers make dozens of factual claims across emails, listings, and calls. Gut Check scans your deal communications and auto-generates a claims register — a complete log of every assertion made, cross-referenced against what the data actually shows.

"The broker stated average COGS is 35% in an email three months ago. Here's whether the financial data supports that claim."

Deal Analyzer

Basic but fast: SDE calculation, debt servicing capacity, and salary extraction modeling. See whether deal economics fall within your target range before you invest time going deeper. Quickly expose overvalued listings and move on.

"At the asking multiple, you'd need to pay yourself below market rate for the first 18 months. Here's what fair value looks like."

Why it works

Purpose-built analysis.
Not a chatbot with a spreadsheet.

Don't close a deal without a
Gut Check.

Join the waitlist. Be first to access self-service financial verification for independent buyers.

No credit card. No spam. Early access when we launch.

Optional — takes 20 seconds
Help us build the right thing
Just browsing
1–3 deals
5–10 deals
10+ deals
Verifying seller financials
Deal math & modeling
Tracking seller claims
All three options

You're on the list.

We'll reach out when early access opens. In the meantime, feel free to share this page with other buyers who'd find it useful.