Frame the evidence
Deal context
Fix the target, location, asking price and likely structure so every later finding stays attached to the same transaction.
How Aquerim works
Nine stages from deal files to a report you can challenge.
Aquerim is an evidence-led acquisition-screening platform for UK SME buyers and advisers. Its AI-assisted workflow organises early-stage deal documents into a traceable first-pass screen without treating automation as verification.
The working sequence
Evidence goes in. Judgement and uncertainty stay visible.
The stages separate intake, analysis and challenge so a buyer can see what was supplied, what was inferred and what still needs professional review.
Frame the evidence
Document intake
Extract the supplied accounts, tax records, leases, contracts and supporting files without treating absence as evidence.
Frame the evidence
Quality gate
Structure the material, surface contradictions and stop when the evidence is not safe enough to analyse.
Run the analysis
AI-assisted review
AI assists parallel financial, legal and public-record review, constrained to supplied evidence, explicit rules and stated limits.
Run the analysis
Market sense-check
Test the valuation basis, implied multiple and commercial position against relevant external context.
Run the analysis
Risk scorecard
Bring evidence quality and the analysis together into an explicit view of confidence, exposure and priority.
Challenge the output
Synthesis
Turn the separate findings into strengths, risks, next steps and clearly stated verification gaps.
Challenge the output
QA challenge
Test contradictions, completeness and calibration before anything is released to the buyer.
Challenge the output
Report render
Produce a traceable screening report that keeps evidence, inference and adviser questions visibly separate.
Inputs
Early-stage documents, not a claim of completeness.
A screen can start from the accounts, tax records, leases, contracts, seller adjustments and supporting deal material available at that point.
Missing documents stay missing. The workflow does not quietly convert an absent source into a clean answer or imply that a complete diligence file has been reviewed.
Evidence-led report
A source-aware screen that keeps findings tied to the material reviewed.
Defensible earnings view
A visible bridge between presented earnings and adjustments the evidence supports.
Questions for review
Risks, gaps and focused questions for accounting, legal and commercial advisers.
Test the method against the output