CEO of Acquiry. Digital-business and software acquisitions, buy-side origination and acquisition research.

Joash Boyton • Peerlist

A worksheet for acquisition buyers to define their criteria before contacting owners. It separates must-haves from preferences, records the evidence behind each answer, and applies simple screening rules so a target is marked eligible, outside the brief, or awaiting evidence.Includes hypothetical worked examples and the screening logic in plain Python. Published by Acquiry for educational use.

Business Buyer Criteria Worksheet

A practical checklist for buyers assessing a small SaaS business before completion. It covers architecture and hosting ownership, code delivery, access control, backups and restore testing, data obligations, key-person dependencies and third-party platform risk.Each item lists the evidence to request, a bounded test and the failure signals that should change price, structure or warranties. Published by Acquiry for educational use.