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Overview

WHIZDOM provides Clients highly-focused expertise on conducting perhaps the most important type of due diligence in the company acquisition process:

Customer Due Diligence.

 

Conducting all types of due diligence enables a Buyer to manage risk. And since Customers are the lifeblood of a company having an in-depth understanding of them can be extremely important.

 

By reaching out directly to a target Company's Customers WHIZDOM is able to obtain important information and key insights.

 

To learn more about WHIZDOM’s Customer Due Diligence services, contact Ivy Millman, CEO at 650-388-8343 or ivy.millman@gmail.com

 

Benefits

  • Peace of mind
  • Reduce risk of making unwise purchase decisions
  • Risk reduction
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    Who WHIZDOM Works With

    • Private Equity (PE) Firms
    • Search Fund Investors
    • Search Fund Entrepreneurs
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      Why Clients Retain WHIZDOM To Conduct Customer Due Diligence

      • We have a unique approach and a proven methodology
      • We are independent, objective, unbiased and have no skin-in-the-game
      • We verify key target Company’s customer information (e.g., customer satisfaction, loyalty, competitive threats, price sensitivity and more)
      • We are often able to obtain confidential contact information directly from Sellers (even when they might not share the same needed info with a potential Buyer)
      • We are experts at building rapport with business customers (including executives, decision makers, and product end-users)
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        When Do Clients Retain WHIZDOM

      • WHIZDOM recommends our Clients contact us as early as possible in the due diligence stage of the acquisition process. It can take longer than expected to:
      • Obtain Customer contact information
      • Schedule and conduct interviews; and
      • Develop a comprehensive findings report from the interviews conducted
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        Resources

      • Searchfunder
      • Booth-Kellogg Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (ETA) Conference on November 19, 2025 at Chicago’s Navy Pier (WHIZDOM plans to attend this conference)
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