Due Diligence Decoded: The First-Time Buyer’s Guide to Vetting a Business Before You Buy
About Course
Buying a business is the fastest path to ownership — but the deal is only as good as the homework you do before you sign. Due diligence is where great-looking deals fall apart and where smart buyers protect themselves from costly mistakes. For a first-time buyer, it can also feel like the most confusing, overwhelming part of the whole process.
This course fixes that. Due Diligence Decoded walks you through the entire investigation — financial, legal, operational, commercial, and people — in plain English, step by step, with checklists, diagrams, and real examples. You’ll learn exactly what to ask for, how to read it, what the red flags look like, and when to renegotiate or walk away.
You’ll also get a modern edge most courses ignore: a full module on using AI and agentic tools (Claude, Cowork, and automated agents) to analyze financials, contracts, and CIMs faster and more thoroughly than you could alone.
By the end, you’ll have a repeatable due-diligence game plan and a downloadable checklist you can use on a real deal — so you can buy with confidence instead of crossed fingers.
Course Content
Module 1 — Due Diligence Foundations
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What Due Diligence Really Is (and Why Deals Die Here)
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The Due Diligence Timeline & Building Your Team
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Module 1 Quiz: Due Diligence Foundations
Module 2 — Financial Due Diligence
Module 3 — Legal & Corporate Due Diligence
Module 4 — Operational Due Diligence
Module 5 — Commercial & Customer Due Diligence
Module 6 — People & Culture Due Diligence
Module 7 — Using AI & Agentic Tools for Due Diligence
Module 8 — Red Flags, Deal-Breakers & Your DD Game Plan
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