A growth assessment built for independent sponsors
You're selling a thesis twice: once to yourself, then to capital partners who've seen a hundred decks this quarter. The Meridian Value Report gives the growth half of your thesis a backbone — five specific opportunities inside the target, each priced, stress-tested, and traceable — for $15,000 flat, in five days. Sized for the stage where every dollar is yours.
The gap in the sponsor process
Between first look and letter of intent (LOI), you have conviction, a confidential information memorandum (CIM), and limited budget. The full diligence apparatus — quality of earnings, legal, confirmatory commercial work — comes later, and published guides price mid-market commercial diligence from $50,000 into the low six figures. What's missing at your stage is cheaper and earlier: a defensible answer to "how does this business grow beyond the base case?" That answer is what capital partners actually buy, and what most sponsor decks assert rather than price.
Where the Report fits
Pre-LOI, or early in exclusivity. It's discovery, not confirmation: it doesn't replace quality of earnings, legal, or confirmatory diligence — it answers the question none of them ask. Five growth opportunities in the target, each sized in dollars with assumptions shown, scoped to what a management team could run in four to six quarters.
The deal clock
First look
LOI
Exclusivity
Close
Meridian Value Report · $15,000
QoE
Legal
Confirmatory
Post-LOI diligence: $50,000+
Built from public and provided data at this stage — so it's explicitly a forecast: a priced view of what could be built, for you and your partners to underwrite, challenge, or discount.
What you take to your capital partners
Not "meaningful upside potential." Five named concepts with numbers that show their work. A growth story your equity partners can push on line by line — which is precisely what makes it credible in a room where everyone discounts adjectives. If the Report changes your bid, it paid for itself before the LOI. If it kills your conviction, it paid for itself twice.
Sponsor-sized economics
$15,000, flat. One payment. No success fee, no tail. At the stage where sponsors typically carry every cost personally, the fee is deliberately sized to be an easy yes against the $50,000+ engagements that come after the LOI. Full cost context →
After the LOI
The same Report seeds the value-creation conversation post-close: the five opportunities become the growth half of the plan you build with management, already priced. Nothing is wasted — discovery done at the thesis stage compounds through the hold.