Five listings, free
The register, the filings, the web address, the email and the website, checked for each business.
Who we serve
For business brokers and M&A advisers. Listings that don't stall on who holds the keys.
Send us the web addresses of your next five listings and we check each one free, the way a buyer's side will: the register, the filings, the web address, the email and the website. You get a page per business for the data room, with who fixes each item and the dates.
To talk it through, ring Mal Murphy on 07830 879318, weekdays, 9am to 5pm.
- Precision engineering, West YorkshireTwo could hold up completionDirectors not yet identity-verified; a 2014 charge never satisfied
- Dental practice, Greater ManchesterRegulator deadlinesCQC registration: plan a share sale
- IT services, LondonWorth fixing before the saleFake emails in the business's name aren't blocked
- Wholesale distributor, West MidlandsOne could hold up completionConfirmation statement overdue
- Logistics, the HumberCleanNothing a buyer would raise today
- 6 to 12 monthsfor most business sales to complete.1
- 4 to 10 weeksfrom the initial request list to agreed due diligence findings.2
- £3,500 to £6,500plus VAT: what a buyer pays for its own IT review of a single-site business with 10 to 30 staff, at one IT firm's published price.3
- 149 daysto Monday 5 April 2027, the last completion day under the £1 million limit. 101 of them are working days.4
Where deals stall
What holds completion up, and what the check shows
| What holds it up | What the check shows | |
|---|---|---|
| The lender | “The legal charge will need to be paid off on completion”, and buyers' banks often set requirements “late on in the transaction”.5 | Every charge registered as outstanding, with the lender and the date it was created. |
| Names | “Domain names or software registered in personal names.”6 | Who runs the web address and the email today; the review confirms in whose name, and moves it. |
| The registers | “Deals get delayed while rectification work is carried out.”7 | The officers, the people with significant control and their identity verification, looked up live. |
| Timing | “Leaving IT diligence until the final fortnight forfeits the negotiating leverage that findings create.”3 | All of it checked before the buyer's first list arrives, not in the final fortnight. |
What you get
For each listing
A page for the data room
What the first request list will raise, who fixes it and the dates, as a page and an A4 PDF.
The review for the keys
Booked by the seller: one call on a shared screen, then the handover report.
Confidential by design
Web addresses only, never a seller's name. Your message is kept with your enquiry so Mal can send the pages, and is used for nothing else.
How you are paid
Paid at completion, as you are.
For each review a seller books through you, your introduction fee is paid when the sale completes. Mal agrees the rate with you in writing before your first listing.
- No minimum and no term.
- We never approach your sellers or your buyers.
- The seller pays £2,500 for the review, at a published price.
Send five listings
Your next five, checked free.
Web addresses only, one per line. Mal sends a page for each within two working days, and rings if anything needs explaining.
To talk it through, ring Mal Murphy on 07830 879318, weekdays, 9am to 5pm.
Questions
Does a seller's name ever reach you?
Not from you. You send web addresses only. Each page carries the company's registered name from Companies House, and your message stays with your enquiry so Mal can send the pages.
What if a listing is clean?
Its page says so, with the company record, who holds the keys and the dates still shown. A clean page is a good thing to put in front of a buyer.
Who pays for the review?
The seller, £2,500 by card. Your introduction fee is paid at completion.
Can you check more than five?
Yes. The check is free for any business at bondstone.app/ready; Mal makes the pages by hand for your first five, so ring him about the rest of your book.
Sources
- Kreston Reeves, Selling a business. accessed 6 November 2026, krestonreeves.com
- KBS Corporate, Due diligence when buying or selling a business. 4 November 2026, kbscorporate.com
- CloudSwitched, IT due diligence for a business acquisition (one firm's published price). 3 July 2026, cloudswitched.com
- HMRC, Capital Gains Tax: new Business Asset Disposal Relief lifetime limit, policy paper. 29 October 2026, gov.uk
- Hempsons, On completing a sale: the lender's charge, the landlord's consent. 2019, hempsons.co.uk
- Hunters Law, in Legal 500, Preparing for sale: legal health checks companies should do before a transaction. 30 July 2025, legal500.com
- Beyond Corporate, Is your share capital in order? The due diligence red flags. accessed 6 November 2026, beyondcorporate.co.uk
Every figure on this page is from the source beside it, with its date. Where we give a date to start by, it is counted back from Monday 5 April 2027: the FCA's in UK working days, the others in calendar days.
Send your next five listings.
Free, from public records, a page for each business. Or ring Mal on 07830 879318.