They are skilled at helping investors and business buyers understand the strengths, theyaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of a given business. Their due diligence process is designed to identify and understand all attributes of a particular company and business.

They will conduct their own due diligence leading to a comprehensive SWOT analysis. The SWOT analysis will create the foundation for a sound strategic integration plan that leverages strengths, shores-up theyaknesses, capitalizes on opportunities and steers the business clear of threats.

Their proprietary due diligence methodology ensures a thorough analysis of the target business. They focus on all of the key elements of business infrastructure including:

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• Technology
  Finance & Administration
  Operations
  Sales & Marketing
  People, Culture & Organization
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Who They Serve
They exist to facilitate the informed strategic decision-making of their clients. They provide pertinent information and analysis to delineate the risks, exposures, opportunities, strengths and theyaknesses associated with a particular investment, acquisition, joint venture, key hire or under-performing asset.

They get dirty and look under the hood. Though they have a structured due diligence approach (to ensure quality), it is their vast and diversified experience that allows us to identify problems and opportunities quickly and, more importantly, to understand the impact of such issues on the business ability to execute.

They serve the investment community; those that place a significant financial stake in the success of an enterprise. Their customers include: venture capitalists, angel investors, companies that acquire other companies, banks and attorneys. They customize their services for each type of customer and for each customer.

 
Venture Capitalists
They have been executives of venture-funded companies, both successful and troubled. They have raised money from venture capital groups. They understand the process, including the distinction bettheyen management motivations and techniques and those of the financing party. They also understand why apparently good deals go bad!

For the venture capitalist, they offer their traditional verification services tailored to compliment your own due diligence process. They also offer subject matter expertise in the areas of sales and marketing, particularly management and tactics, as theyll as product development. They identify and diagnose key operational deficiencies to prepare you to be an effective board member of the enterprise upon funding. They can help you help the management to correct infrastructure problems before they compromise the window of opportunity.
 
Support for Mergers & Acquisitions and Sales of Businesses
For the business buying another, they provide training and structured due diligence to complement your due diligence efforts. Their process includes training your management team on due diligence procedures, then working with you to design the due diligence project appropriate for your acquisition. They integrate their personnel with yours to form the due diligence team, ensuring meaningful exposure to areas of operational interest for your team, while they ensure that all bases are covered.
 
Bankers
For the banker, their main objective is preserving the bank's position with regard to the credit. They seek to help the bank maximize the likelihood of the ultimate full collection of the loan.

For loans in trouble or workout, they assess both the viability of the credit and the condition of the collateral. Their standard assessment approach is customized to provide a more thorough analysis of the safeguarding, condition and realization likelihood of collateral, and a verification of the borrowing base. They can also help the bank understand the nature of any intangible assets, including mapping to a realization of the collateral, if necessary. They can also monitor ongoing business performance to agreed metrics, or will routinely prepare borrowing base reports during a workout period, if required.

For loans not yet in trouble, they can identify and diagnosis key operational deficiencies that threaten business viability. Their work can be used by the bank for a proper determination of loan administration or, alternatively, to assist management of the credit to improve business health.
 
Attorneys
Their assessment program can be used in a forensic audit to assess and document the demise of a business. They can also track flow of funds, documenting who got paid and how in the support of litigation efforts or bankruptcy claims. Their due diligence programs can also be subcontracted to law firms to complement due diligence services they might provide for their clients in acquisitions and divestitures.
 
Angel Investors
Their services to the Angel Investor are a more detailed and extensive version of the assessments they provide the Venture Capitalist. They find most Angels are not in the business to make investments and therefore lack much of the infrastructure and methodology of their Venture Capitalist counterparts. They provide those! In addition to verification, they can offer thorough business plan review and analysis, strategic market assessment and management team background checks. They will also monitor the investment on an on-going basis including obtaining and reviewing periodic management reports on your behalf. They can monitor trends to identify problems and giving time to address the problems while your investment still has value.
 
Executives and Business Owners
For business owners and executives, they offer a variety of advisory and due diligence services tailored to position your company to achieve maximum value at investment or exit. Their goal is to help you highlight business strengths and opportunities while identifying and addressing theyaknesses and threats. They want you to have command of all of your issues so that you can communicate them confidently and effectively. They believe it is dangerous to allow sellers or investors an opportunity to find issues for which management lacks anstheyrs. In such circumstance valuations could be discounted, management's integrity questioned and a deal could be comprised.

Their specific services include Business Plan Development; Market Research; strategic assessment (SWOT analysis;) Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance; and Review of Underperforming Business Units. Each of these services is designed to help you understand your business and marketplace while helping you to enhance the value of your business to the would-be investor or buyer.
 
Contact information

Axiomate, Inc.
6432 East Jamison Circle, Centennial, CO, 80112
Email:	info@axiomate.com
Phone:	303-220-5380
Fax:	720-294-9740

 

Eric Edwards - Principal			Trent Hampton - Principal
Email:	eedwards@axiomate.com		Email:	thampton@axiomate.com
Phone:	303-220-5380		Phone:	303-886-2831