Screening a Business Partner, Competitor or Investor Before You Sign
You are about to sign. A new business partner, an acquisition, an investment, a joint venture. The term sheet is ready. And then the question everyone suppresses because it slows the process down: do you actually know who is sitting across the table?
Most executives, lawyers and investors do not know the answer well enough. Not because they do not care, but because in their experience due diligence takes three weeks, costs tens of thousands of euros, and only starts once interest is already public.
That does not have to be the case.
What Due Diligence Misses in Practice
Classic due diligence, the kind run before a company acquisition, is thorough and necessary. It is also slow. It is built for the final stage of a deal, not for the moment you are still deciding whether to enter one at all.
Between "I have a concern" and "I want to launch a full legal due diligence process" sits a gap. Too often, nothing happens in that gap. A quick Google search, a glance at LinkedIn, and the deal proceeds on instinct.
That is where a quickscan adds value: not as a replacement for formal due diligence, but as a filter ahead of it. Know within 48 to 72 hours whether a competitor, business partner or investor holds up under scrutiny, before you commit time and budget to a full process.
What a Quickscan Is, and Is Not
An OSINT-based quickscan uses exclusively publicly accessible sources: trade registries, news archives, court publications, sanctions lists, social media and professional networks. No unauthorized access, no pretexting, no grey areas. Every finding is traceable to a source with a date.
The difference from a generic search is methodology. Source rating on the NATO Admiralty scale, estimative language per ICD-203 standards (the distinction between "almost certainly" and "possible, but unconfirmed"), and verification against multiple independent sources before a finding is treated as reliable. The same discipline used in professional threat and integrity analysis, applied to a business question.
No assumptions are presented as facts. If something is unconfirmed, the report says so.
Who This Is For
- Executives considering a new business partner, supplier or joint venture partner who want to know quickly whether red flags exist before the negotiation moves forward.
- Lawyers who need a fast, defensible picture of the counterparty ahead of a transaction or dispute.
- Investors who want to screen a target before a term sheet, without deploying the full due diligence apparatus on a deal that may not proceed.
The problem is the same in every case: the decision has to land faster than the classic research process allows.
How It Works
A quickscan delivers a two-layer report within 48 to 72 hours.
No slide decks full of assumptions. A defensible, sourced answer to one question: can you proceed, or do you need to look deeper first.
The Fixed Price for the First Scan
€450. Delivery in 48 to 72 hours. No subscription, no entry threshold. For executives, lawyers and investors who want to know who or what is on the other side before the deal becomes irreversible.
OF-PRO Intelligence applies the methodology of professional threat and due diligence analysis to competitive and market intelligence questions. Public sources, structured analysis, defensible conclusions.
See the other side before you sign.
Request a quickscan and get a verdict within 48 to 72 hours, not three weeks.
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