The problem
Due diligence is high-stakes analysis with asymmetric information. The selling side controls the narrative, and your team may lack expertise in all relevant domains — legal, financial, technical, market. A single AI gives you a checklist, not a genuine risk assessment.
How Consium solves it
Consium assembles a virtual due diligence team: a financial analyst models the numbers, a legal expert assesses regulatory and contractual risks, a technical specialist evaluates the product and tech debt, and an industry expert validates market assumptions. Each persona advocates from their domain, surfacing risks the others might accept at face value.
Example walkthrough
Topic submitted:
What are the risks and opportunities of acquiring this Series B SaaS startup?
- 1
Analysts identify evaluation dimensions: financial health, product-market fit, technology architecture, team retention risk, and regulatory exposure.
- 2
A financial analyst flags that reported ARR growth includes one-time implementation fees, inflating the recurring revenue figure by 18%.
- 3
A technical evaluator raises concerns about the monolithic architecture and estimates 12-18 months of refactoring for integration.
- 4
Observers catch that the competitive analysis omits two well-funded stealth competitors identified in recent funding announcements.
- 5
Adversarial review challenges the synergy assumptions — specifically whether projected cross-sell rates are realistic given customer overlap analysis.
Sample report excerpt
Adjusted valuation should account for three material findings: (1) recurring revenue is overstated by ~18% when implementation fees are excluded, (2) technical integration costs are estimated at $2-4M over 18 months due to architecture incompatibilities, and (3) two stealth competitors with combined $45M funding present market share risk not reflected in projections. Opportunity: the target's customer base has only 12% overlap with ours, validating the cross-sell thesis. Three personas recommend proceeding at a 20-25% valuation reduction; two recommend walking away citing technical debt severity.