Observed arrival · 2026-09-06
Quality of Deal: A Diligence Layer for the Decision Itself
Decision Signal presents a review framework for testing whether the reasoning beneath a business acquisition is sound—not just whether its earnings and legal facts check out.
Field notes
Quality of Deal treats an acquisition as a connected decision rather than a stack of separate diligence outputs. Its stated review covers assumptions about price, structure, people, and the first hundred days, then distinguishes tested beliefs from assumptions that have simply survived unchallenged. The page places a boundary around the work: it does not replace Quality of Earnings or legal diligence, and it says the review ends at roughly one hundred days after close, when the problem becomes organizational rather than decisional.
Observed signals
Read the marks
Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.
One card from the complete issue