A 2-hour working session that turns your acquisition instincts into a written Buy-Box. The criteria you’ll actually use to filter every deal that lands on your desk.
One session. Thousands saved. Tens of thousands. Maybe even millions.
Owners and operators start looking at deals before they’ve actually defined what they’re looking for. That leads to time spent on the wrong opportunities, hesitation when a real one shows up, and no clear filter for what a broker or banker sends your way.
This session fixes that in one sitting, using the same diagnostic process built across 71 closed transactions.
WHAT WE COVER
Five working sessions in one.
Each area ends with a decision, not a discussion — the output is criteria you can hand to anyone screening deals on your behalf.
01
Financial Parameters
Valuation ceiling, financing capacity, deal-breakers on structure and terms.
02
Strategic Fit
Sector adjacency vs. expansion, geography, and whether you can actually integrate an acquisition right now. Your thesis. Why should someone sell to you?
03
Timing & Appetite
One deal this year, or building a pipeline, and what’s actually driving the urgency. Sourcing strategy.
04
Pass Criteria
The red flags that should make you walk away immediately, based on your real constraints.
05
Decision Process
Who else needs to sign off, and how fast you can move once something looks right. Your acquisition army.
Investment
Priced flat. No surprises.
FLAT FEE · PAID AT BOOKING
2-hour session with Andre Achtermeier. Includes the finished Buy-Box Brief within 24 hours. Full terms, including rescheduling policy, are sent with your booking confirmation and listed on the booking page.
Ready when you are
Bring your instincts.
Leave with a Buy-Box.
Limited sessions run each week. Availability shown on booking.
eightM Corporation, Austin, TX
Considering more than one deal a year? This workshop also serves as the entry point to embedded fractional Corporate Development. 1 to 5 days a week, no full-time headcount.