Advisory · London
We find what diligence finds — before it does.
Avant Partners prepares companies for the moments when someone else does the checking: an investment committee, a listing sponsor, a rating agency, a security review. We do that work as advisers — and we publish the tools we use.
The estate
Eight terminals, free at the entry point.
Our method is not a description on a page — it runs in public, and you can put your own company through it before you talk to us. Nobody should buy a diligence process they have not tested.
Diligence terminals
The four that answer the question the practice answers — will this file stand up when a lender, a sponsor, an investor or a reviewer does the checking?
Fundladder
fundladder.uk
Every way a UK business can raise money, cheapest first — each with its fit, a readiness checklist and its true cost, every fact sourced and dated.
UK businesses raising money, from sole traders to companies preparing to list.
Pre-IPO Terminal
preipo.uk
The FPPP diagnostic — 73 criteria across the nine areas, each mapped to the UK Listing Rules and ICAEW TECH 14/14CFF.
Issuers and their advisers, ahead of a London listing.
vc-scan.com
vc-scan.com
Valuation and pre-diligence — five methods blended by stage, with a Companies House cross-check against the story being told.
Founders raising, investors triaging inbound.
grc-scan.com
grc-scan.com
Security and compliance readiness in plain English — posture scanned and explained, not just scored.
Small businesses facing a security or procurement review.
Reference terminals
The same measurement engine pointed at public records, in four markets that move the assets our clients are trying to price.
The Order Paper
top-news.uk
Multi-source synthesis, a poll-of-polls on a 14-day half-life, and the parliamentary day as it happens.
Anyone who has to read the UK political day quickly.
Datum
thedatum.uk
AI models, prices and incidents — every measurement published with its method, its components and its full history.
Anyone pricing an asset that AI capability moves.
Near Mint
nearmint.uk
The art market with the arithmetic shown — every price marked hammer or with fees, and the full bill worked out: premium, VAT and resale right.
Anyone bidding at auction, or pricing what already hangs on the wall.
Blockplain
blockplain.uk
Blockchain in plain English with a source on every fact — the day's news and regulators, live chain data explained, and Crypto Scan on a firm, an advert or a token.
Anyone in the UK trying to read blockchain and crypto without a sales pitch.
Preparation is the work. The event is the receipt.
A listing, a round, a rating, a contract award — each is decided long before the day it happens, by whether the file stands up. We build the file: the equity story and the model beneath it, the board and its committees, the controls, the records a sponsor or an investment committee will ask to see. Then we check it the way they will.
The software is not a side business. It is the proof that the method exists outside one person's head — a process a stranger can run is a process that can be audited.
The practice
Partner-led. Fixed scope. The deliverable named up front.
Capital markets and listing readiness
FPPP and sponsor readiness, IR function design, GDR and ADR routes, the equity story and the model beneath it.
An FPPP gap report against 73 criteria, with the remediation sequenced.
Diligence and valuation
Venture and investment due diligence at volume, DCF and comparables, cap table and instrument review.
A valuation with every method, weight and assumption shown.
Platform advisory
Bulk and white-label use of the terminals for funds, advisers and corporate development teams.
Your own deal flow run through the same engine, on your own terms.
The partners
Partner-led, and senior all the way down.
A partner-led practice, built on careers at a multilateral development bank, a development finance institution, a French corporate and investment bank and a European private-equity house. Every mandate is run by a partner, with specialists engaged for the work.
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