Court and lien history
Searches federal and state court dockets, judgments, UCC filings, tax liens, licensing actions, and prior entities tied to the seller.
Seller firewall for SMB acquisitions
Find seller risk before your money moves.
CloseGuard screens seller history and deal documents for the fraud patterns ordinary diligence can miss—then turns each finding into protective terms you can negotiate before close.
Built for searchers, independent sponsors, and SBA-financed buyers.
What to expect
Evidence, not instinct.
Every flag is tied to a source, document, filing, or disclosed inconsistency so you can verify it and act on it.
No invented certainty
Clear distinctions between confirmed records, document signals, and questions requiring specialist review.
Built for pre-close action
Findings arrive with diligence requests and suggested deal protections—not a vague risk score.
A tighter diligence loop
From a name to defensible deal terms.
Start with the seller. Go deeper when the deal earns it. CloseGuard keeps the evidence and the response in one line of sight.
150-point deal scan
Tests financials and transaction documents for patterns such as related-party revenue, masked concentration, deferred capex, and working-capital games.
Terms you can negotiate
Converts findings into practical protections: escrow sizing, holdbacks, seller-note offsets, targeted representations, and indemnities.
Pricing by decision
Screen one seller or run your whole search.
Pay for the depth you need. Final scope is confirmed before any document-intensive review begins.
Seller Check
$149
One seller and associated entity
- Court and docket search
- Liens, judgments, and UCC filings
- Entity and licensing history
- Source-linked summary
Red Flag Report
Deep diligence$2,500–$4,000
Scoped to the deal and document set
- 150-point document scan
- Revenue and concentration tests
- Lease, license, and capex traps
- Working-capital risk review
- Protective term recommendations
- Prioritized diligence questions
Active Searcher
$299/month
For buyers reviewing deals continuously
- Unlimited seller checks
- Unlimited initial deal scans
- Deal-comparison dashboard
- Search history in one workspace
Before you rely on the report
Straight answers about scope.
The wire is final. Your diligence should not be casual.
Know who—and what—you are buying.
Run the seller first. If the deal advances, turn the documents into a focused pre-close defense.