M&A Due Diligence · Finance Plan

Operational due diligence in 60 seconds, not two weeks.

Upload a target company's ERP or accounting export. YieldSentinel generates a structured operational DD memo — yield loss, inventory health, margin quality, procurement exposure — ranked by annual dollar impact. Get the quantitative baseline before hiring a consultant or conducting deeper diligence.

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Sample DD memo output — Target: AcmeMfg Inc
🔴 Yield loss — Line 2 calibration $142K/yr
🔴 Dead stock — 23 SKUs >180 days $86K
🔴 Procurement PPV — 3 suppliers $54K/yr
Total identified leakage $282K/yr
Generated from 3 CSV exports in under 60 seconds · faster than a traditional engagement
Who uses this module

Built for advisors who need fast operational answers

The M&A Due Diligence module is part of the Finance plan and Advisor plan. It's designed for three types of professionals.

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M&A Advisors & Business Brokers

Get a structured operational risk assessment from a target company's ERP or accounting exports before LOI. Surface the findings your buy-side client needs to know — yield loss, inventory quality, margin concentration, procurement risk — ranked by annual dollar impact.

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Fractional CFOs

Use it as a discovery tool on new client engagements. Upload whatever data the client can export in the first meeting and walk out with a qualified engagement scope backed by their own numbers — before writing a proposal.

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ERP Consultants

Prove the ROI of a recommended system before the prospect commits. Upload their current ERP export, show them exactly what they're losing today, and make the case for a new system with their own data rather than a vendor benchmark.

How a 60-second DD works

No software to install on the target's systems. No access to their ERP required. Just CSV exports that any operator can pull in minutes.

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Request 3–4 CSV exports from the target

Production log or scrap report (yield loss), inventory export (dead stock, days of cover), sales/COGS data (margin by SKU), and purchase history (procurement variance). All standard ERP exports — no custom reports required.

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Upload each file to the relevant module

Yield Loss, Inventory Intelligence, Margin by SKU, and Procurement — each takes a separate file. Upload runs in your browser. Data never leaves your device or the target's data room.

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Open Command Centre — ranked findings appear

All modules aggregate into a single ranked view. The Command Centre shows every finding sorted by annual dollar impact with root cause narrative for each. This is your operational risk register.

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Generate the Profit Recovery Brief™

One click generates a board-ready PDF — executive summary, top 5 findings ranked by dollar impact, root cause narrative, recommended actions, and 90-day recovery roadmap. White-labeled with your firm name on the Advisor plan.

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Deliver findings to your buy-side client

The PDF is generated locally in your browser and downloaded directly — no server, no cloud storage. Share it directly with your client or include it in your due diligence report. No YieldSentinel branding on Advisor plan outputs.

What the module surfaces

Operational risks that financial DD misses

Financial due diligence tells you what the P&L looks like. Operational DD tells you why — and what the real cost structure is behind the numbers.

Yield Loss & Scrap

Scrap rate by product, line, and shift. Annual dollar cost of current yield loss. Comparison to industry benchmark. Identification of whether the loss is structural or addressable — and what fixing it is worth.

Inventory Quality

Dead stock value (capital tied up 90+ days), days of cover per SKU, expiry risk, stockout exposure, and reorder position. Identifies whether inventory is a working capital problem or an operations problem.

Margin Concentration

Gross margin by SKU and channel. Identifies below-threshold products, customer concentration risk, and channel margin mix. Surfaces whether the business is more profitable than its P&L suggests — or less.

Procurement Risk

Purchase price variance by vendor, maverick spend, supplier concentration, tariff exposure, and on-time delivery performance. Identifies whether COGS is stable or quietly inflating — and by how much.

Recovery Opportunity

Total identified profit recovery potential across all modules, ranked by annual dollar impact. This is the post-acquisition upside number — the operational improvement case that justifies the purchase price or informs the negotiation.

Loss Fingerprint™

A one-line characterisation of the target's operational leakage pattern — high yield-loss, inventory-aging, purchasing-variance — generated from multi-module analysis. Fast briefing language for your deal team or investment committee.

From M&A advisors and brokers

Does the target company need to give us access to their ERP?
No. You need CSV exports that any ERP user can pull in 5 minutes — standard production, inventory, sales, and purchasing reports. No ERP credentials, no integration, no IT involvement from the target's side. Request the exports via the data room or by email.
What if the target's data is messy or inconsistent?
Messy data is the default for SMB companies. YieldSentinel is built around real-world ERP exports — inconsistent column names, missing fields, and mixed formats. The upload process identifies usable columns automatically and flags data quality issues before analysis so you know what the results are based on. A partial analysis is still better than no analysis.
Is the target's data secure when we upload it?
All analysis runs in your browser — the target's data never leaves your device and is never transmitted to any server. This is architecturally designed into the product, not just a policy. See the Trust & Security page for the full data flow breakdown. This is also an easy answer to give the target if they ask about confidentiality.
How does this compare to hiring a consultant for operational DD?
A traditional operational DD engagement costs $15,000–$50,000 and takes 2–4 weeks. YieldSentinel produces a structured operational risk assessment in 60 seconds from the same data a consultant would request. It's not a replacement for site visits or management interviews — but it gives you the quantitative baseline before you spend money on boots-on-the-ground work, and it often surfaces findings that a consultant would have missed or undervalued.
Can we white-label the output with our firm's name?
Yes — on the Advisor plan, the Profit Recovery Brief™ and Monthly Digest PDFs print with your firm's name in the header. No YieldSentinel branding on client deliverables. The Advisor plan also includes a multi-client workspace so you can keep each target's analysis separate.

M&A Due Diligence is included in Finance and Advisor plans

Finance plan ($299/month) includes the DD module plus all core analytics. Advisor plan ($499/month) adds multi-client workspace, white-label PDF outputs, and the portfolio dashboard for your full book of clients.

Finance Plan — $299/mo → See Advisor Plan

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