About Granite Flat Partners

Why we run the diligence first

Granite Flat Partners was founded to get owners a better outcome rather than a faster one.

Our advisors had all run processes where the difficult findings surfaced in month four, under exclusivity, with the seller holding almost no leverage. Nothing had been concealed; nobody had gone looking either.

The incentive runs against looking. An advisor on a success fee benefits from a transaction closing, and adverse findings raised early can end a mandate before it produces anything.

Timing determines what a finding costs. Customer concentration identified two years out is a commercial problem with a solution. The same fact found under exclusivity is a price reduction.

So we look first and report unedited. Every finding quantified against its likely effect on price, so you decide knowingly rather than discovering it when your options have gone.

How we are paid

Fixed fees against scope. No success component, no completion bonus, no percentage of consideration. Our fee is identical whether a transaction closes, collapses, or never begins.

No commissions from anyone. Lenders, buyers and intermediaries pay us nothing, in any direction, on any engagement.

Models and findings transfer to you. Yours to use with any advisor, including instead of us.

We recommend postponing regularly. Where a business would be worth materially more after specific work, saying so costs us the mandate and is the entire point of being paid a fixed fee.