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  "slug": "run-your-own-due-diligence-with-claude-before-you-buy-a-small-business",
  "title": "Run your own due diligence with Claude before you buy a small business",
  "date": "2026-06-08",
  "featuredClaim": "Run professional-grade acquisition diligence yourself with eight Claude prompts on your own data room.",
  "description": "This article explains how small business buyers can use Claude and eight AI prompts to conduct their own due diligence on market, customer, and revenue analysis using the data room. It argues that professional diligence firms cost around $50,000, which small deals can't justify, leading buyers to skip diligence and buy half-blind. The result is often discovering too late that key customers were leaving or growth wasn't sustainable.",
  "keyPoints": [
    "Professional commercial diligence costs ~$50,000, which small acquisitions can't justify, so most buyers skip it",
    "Buyers can use eight AI prompts with Claude to build market, customer, and revenue analysis from their own data room",
    "Skipping diligence often leads to discovering in month four that top customers were leaving and growth was a one-quarter anomaly",
    "AI-assisted diligence lets buyers pressure-test market growth, customer retention, and revenue plans without a firm"
  ],
  "topics": [
    {
      "id": "business",
      "slug": "ai-business-applications",
      "label": "Business Applications",
      "description": "Real-world business use cases and applications"
    },
    {
      "id": "tools",
      "slug": "ai-tools",
      "label": "AI Tools",
      "description": "Practical tools and platforms for AI implementation"
    },
    {
      "id": "strategy",
      "slug": "ai-strategy",
      "label": "AI Strategy",
      "description": "Strategic planning and implementation approaches for AI adoption"
    }
  ],
  "claims": [
    "A boutique firm charges around $50,000 to run commercial diligence on a small acquisition target.",
    "Most small business buyers skip professional diligence because its cost exceeds what the deal justifies.",
    "Buyers can use eight AI prompts with Claude to analyze market, customer, and revenue data.",
    "Skipping diligence often reveals in month four that top customers were already halfway out the door.",
    "AI-assisted diligence lets buyers pressure-test market growth, customer retention, and revenue plans without hiring a firm."
  ],
  "claimTitles": [
    "Boutique Diligence Pricing",
    "Why Buyers Skip Diligence",
    "Eight Claude Prompts",
    "Month-Four Discovery Risk",
    "DIY Diligence Alternative"
  ],
  "originalUrl": "https://aiadopters.club/p/run-your-own-due-diligence-with-claude",
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  "quote": "Then you learn in month four that the top two customers were already halfway out the door and the growth story was one good quarter, not a trend.",
  "keyStatistics": [
    {
      "stat": "$50,000",
      "context": "Approximate cost for a boutique firm to run the analytical build for commercial diligence on a small acquisition target."
    },
    {
      "stat": "8 prompts",
      "context": "Number of AI prompts the author says build the market, customer, and revenue analysis from a buyer's own data room."
    },
    {
      "stat": "Month four",
      "context": "Typical point when buyers who skipped diligence discover top customers were leaving and growth was a one-quarter anomaly."
    },
    {
      "stat": "$2M-$6M",
      "context": "Example deal sizes referenced, including a $2M agency and a $6M ecommerce brand, where full diligence is hard to justify."
    }
  ],
  "supportingContext": "The article addresses the gap between professional commercial diligence and what small acquisitions can economically justify, noting that boutique firms charge roughly $50,000 for analytical work that may not change the buyer's decision on a small target. Kamil Banc, writing from a practitioner perspective, proposes a do-it-yourself methodology using eight AI prompts run against the buyer's own data room in Claude. The approach targets the three core diligence questions: whether the market is growing, whether customers are staying, and whether the revenue plan is credible. For acquirers of small businesses, this offers a middle path between buying half-blind and paying for institutional-grade diligence. The practitioner application is a Saturday-scale workflow that replaces spreadsheet-and-gut-feeling analysis with structured AI-assisted pressure-testing.",
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  "source": {
    "publisher": "AI Adopters Club",
    "title": "Run your own due diligence with Claude before you buy a small business",
    "url": "https://aiadopters.club/p/run-your-own-due-diligence-with-claude"
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