Whether you're raising a round or a buyer is about to run diligence on you, it's the same gaps a fresh pair of eyes reopens — the free kill-list below works for both (pick "Acquisition / buyer DD" for the seller-side set). The dilution calculator on the right is the one part that's fundraise-only.
New to any of this and not sure what the words mean? That's exactly who this is for. In plain terms: before investors or a buyer dig into your company, we check it for the gaps they'll flag — and, if you're raising, show you how much of your company you'll actually own after the round — so nothing blindsides you. New to SAFEs, caps, discounts, MFN or the "option-pool shuffle"? Read the plain-English explainer →
A messy cap table (the list of who owns what) or an unmodeled SAFE (a common early investment that converts to shares later) won't kill your deal at the pitch. It re-prices you weeks in, during diligence — the buyer's fact-check before they wire — after the leverage has left the room. DiligenceKit computes your real post-round ownership split from your own cap table and scores your gaps against the questions investors actually run — for a flat $79, not a $10,000+ advisory engagement.
Built by an operator who took a deep-tech company public end to end — a full exchange-listing review, a diligence bar above any venture round — and led $50M+ across financings. This is the prep that closed those rounds, turned into a report.
A short intake, then a person replies with a secure payment link — usually within a few hours, at most one business day (ask and we'll send it same-day). No card entered on the site. Flat $79, full refund if it's unusable.
A quick read on what a fundraise round costs your ownership, and how much slips off you when the SAFE stack and option pool go unmodeled. The full report does it exactly, from your cap table.
Prepping for an acquisition instead of a raise? This estimate is for priced fundraise rounds — score your data room free (choose "Acquisition / buyer DD") for the seller-side path.
Not sure which? A quick rule of thumb: Light = one SAFE under ~$500K raised so far. Typical = 2–3 SAFEs totaling under ~$1.5M. Heavy = several SAFEs, an uncapped or low-cap note, or ~$1.5M+ raised before this round.
These three are stage estimates so you get a number without typing anything. Real stacks vary widely — the reason the paid report re-computes this exactly from each instrument's own cap and discount instead of an estimate.
We'll send your estimate above plus a 1-page diligence cheat-sheet — the kill-list items and the proof document for each. Fulfilled by a human, usually same day.
Illustrative arithmetic from ranges typical for the stage — not a valuation. Your report re-derives every figure from your own cap table. Verify with your counsel and accountant.
How it works
No calls, no retainer. A short intake, a computed report, and a work-order you hand to your team.
Tick the questions an institutional lead, an acquirer's counsel, or an underwriter runs before wiring — score it live on this page, across seven diligence categories, before you pay a cent.
Existing shares plus your SAFE / note stack (cap, discount, MFN, pro-rata). Optional, but it's the piece that drives the dilution model a free checklist can't produce.
A scorecard, a gap work-order ordered by deal impact, and your exact post-round split — every figure re-derived from your inputs, ready to put in front of your team.
| Approach | Price | Speed | Scores your company + computes your dilution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free YC / NVCA / Cooley checklist | $0 | Instant | No — generic questions, no scoring, no dilution math |
| Flying blind into diligence | $0 upfront | — | No — the gaps surface mid-deal, when fixing them costs you price |
| Law-firm DD prep / QoE engagement | $10,000+ | 2–6 weeks | Yes — thorough, but slow and priced for later-stage deals |
| DiligenceKit | $79 flat | 24 hours | Yes — round-weighted score + deterministic dilution model from your cap table. A mechanical readiness check, not a review of your actual documents — it finds the gaps to close before counsel runs the authoritative list. |
Score yourself · free, on this page
These are the questions an investor's counsel or a buyer runs before wiring. Check the ones you can already prove today — your diligence-readiness grade scores live, weighted by how badly each open gap re-prices a deal. No signup, nothing sent anywhere until you choose to. What you tick here carries into your order, so the report scores your real situation — it's saved in this browser on this device (not an account), so finish on the same one, and you can re-tick anytime on the order page.
Tick an item only if you can prove it today with the document — this scores whether each item is prepared, not whether the document itself is correct. A clean grade means your room is assembled, not audited.
Grade uses the same weighted engine your report runs. It scores which items are prepared, not whether your documents are correct — the report maps each open gap to the proof document that clears it. Educational preparation, not legal advice.
What you receive
Your report, from your inputs
Nothing in your report is generic. Each thing you type on the 2-minute intake drives a specific section — here's the exact map, keyed to the fields you'll fill in and the pages they produce.
Every figure above is real output from the tested engine, computed from the fictional sample cap table. Your report re-derives all of it from your own numbers. See all 50 pages →
Pricing
No retainers, no success fees. Ordering is a short, white-glove intake: you send it, a person replies within one business day with a payment link and next steps — no card entered on this site. Flat fee, full refund if the report is unusable.
The product — generated from your intake
$79 one-time
An add-on to a RaiseReady report — not sold on its own
$79 $29 as an add-on only
Report + a live walkthrough
$1,200 one-time
Context: a QoE or diligence-readiness engagement from an advisory firm runs $10,000+; a fractional CFO's fundraise-window retainer is $5,000–$15,000/month. This is the flat-fee layer under all of it. Cross-border founders (Korea→US) welcome — bilingual notes on request.
Ranges below are methodology-derived from the model's own arithmetic on typical stage parameters — not survey data, not invented stats. Your report computes your exact figure.
| You are… | Typical raise | Ownership in play this round | Where the report pays |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-seed founder | $0.25M–$1.5M | ~28–38% of the company | Sizing your SAFE overhang before you stack another one |
| Seed founder | $1M–$4M | ~30–42% of the company | The pool-shuffle points you'd otherwise negotiate blind |
| Series A founder | $5M–$15M | ~20–30% of the company | MFN + cap interactions across a multi-SAFE stack |
| Small fund / angel | writing the check | your converted % | Modeling your pro-rata cost to hold through the next round |
| Early acquisition target | same $79 report | the seller-side fundamentals | Pick "Acquisition / buyer DD" and the kill-list expands to the full seller-side set (27 items) — cap table, IP, corporate, revenue and contract gaps a buyer opens first. Not a full M&A DD list — see the note below |
A note on acquisitions: this covers the founder-side fundamentals a buyer's team opens first — the same cap-table, IP, corporate, revenue and contract gaps that also drive a fundraise. It is not a full M&A due-diligence list: it doesn't cover antitrust/HSR, environmental, benefits/ERISA, deep tax structuring, or sector-specific regimes (FDA, export control, financial-services licensing). For those, your deal counsel runs the authoritative list — this gets the early fundamentals clean before they do.
Who's behind this
DiligenceKit is built and run by an investor-relations and corporate-development operator who took a deep-tech company public end to end — a full exchange-listing review, a diligence bar above any venture round — and led $50M+ across financings. DiligenceKit turns that hands-on diligence experience into a product.
DiligenceKit exists because the prep that closed those rounds — reconciling a cap table, papering the gaps, modeling dilution before the term sheet — is mostly mechanical. The kill-list rubric is written fresh in plain English, benchmarked against public, checkable sources — the NVCA model legal documents, Y Combinator's SAFE materials, and law-firm data-room request lists such as Cooley GO (cited, not copied); the methodology page names those sources and lists every one of the seven categories they inform. The dilution engine is deterministic, unit-tested arithmetic. No employer-confidential material is used or shipped.
We'd rather you check the work than take our word for it — the product is the credential. The full kill-list rubric and the exact dilution math are published, line by line, on the methodology page — read the whole engine before you buy. The 50-page sample report shows precisely what ships. Every order carries a full refund if it's unusable, so the downside is zero. Reach a real person at inha.journey@gmail.com — we reply within one business day and will walk through background, methodology, or your specific deal on request.
Rubric built on YC / NVCA / Cooley GO practice and the standard YC post-money SAFE — cited, not copied.
If the report is unusable for your situation, full refund — no argument.
A person replies to your intake within one business day; once you pay, the report is delivered within 24 hours.
We prepare — we don't broker. No introductions, no success fees, no securities activity.
Questions
A free checklist tells you the questions. It does not score your company, order the gaps by how badly each re-prices a deal, or compute your post-round dilution from your cap table. That dilution number — the one you negotiate against, and the one the calculator above only estimates — is the part a free PDF structurally can't give you. On a $2M seed round you're negotiating over roughly $2M of ownership; a $79 report that gets that number right is the cheapest leverage on the table.
It's deterministic and unit-tested against hand-derived scenarios: post-money SAFE conversion, cap vs discount, MFN inheritance, the pre-money option-pool shuffle and pro-rata. The full method is published on the methodology page. It's illustrative arithmetic from your inputs, not a valuation — verify with your counsel and accountant before relying on it.
The report is prep, not an opinion — it maps to standard US-market diligence expectations (YC / NVCA / Cooley GO practice) and hands your team a gap work-order with the exact proof document for each item. It's built by an operator who cleared a full public-listing exchange-review diligence bar. Your counsel runs the authoritative list; this makes sure you walk in already clean and already knowing your number.
For seed–Series B founders and small funds who want to fix gaps and know their dilution before a room goes live, plus early-stage sellers cleaning the founder-side fundamentals a buyer opens first. It's a fundraise-round readiness tool at heart — not a full M&A due-diligence list (no antitrust/HSR, environmental, benefits or sector-licensing coverage; your deal counsel runs that). Not for founders wanting investor introductions (we don't broker), and not for companies already deep in diligence with counsel running the list — trust your counsel there and keep your money.
The kill-list scores live on this page before you buy — tick the items you can prove and watch your grade move. The full generated report — the weighted scorecard, the gap work-order with a proof document for each item, and the dilution model from your cap table — is delivered within 24 hours of your payment. A person replies to your intake within one business day with the payment link.
$79 is a flat fee that sits deliberately under a $10,000+ advisory diligence-prep engagement and a $5,000–$15,000/month fractional-CFO retainer — the same work, systematized. We're a small early operation, so checkout is white-glove rather than a card form for now: you send a short intake, a person replies within one business day with a secure payment link, and the 24-hour clock starts once you pay. We never see your card, you pay in USD, and there's a full refund if the report is unusable. The $1,200 workshop is invoiced for bank wire. Want to skip the wait and pay right away? Say so at inha.journey@gmail.com and we'll get the link to you same day.