Evidence-Based · Legally Defensible · Independently Reviewed

Your Business Is Worth More When Every Asset Is Proven.

DataVaultResults.com delivers a legally defensible Certified Asset Record — built through disciplined, evidence-based fieldwork by senior auditors, stored in your secure vault, and structured for buyers, lenders, and attorneys.

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Legally Defensible
Every asset backed by evidence and independent review — not estimates.
Evidence-Based
Photographed, verified, and sealed with a tamper-evident chain of custody.
Private & Isolated
Each engagement lives in its own encrypted, access-controlled vault.
Built for the Close
One record buyers, lenders, and attorneys can rely on with confidence.

Our Process

How It Works

Three steps to a legally defensible asset record that protects your transaction.

01

Engage & Scope

You brief us on your business. We scope the engagement and assign your Certified Asset Auditor.

02

Audit & Certify

Your auditor arrives on-site. Every asset is inventoried, photographed, and validated over 6–12 weeks.

03

Access Your Vault

Your Certified Asset Record is published to your secure DataVault. Share access with buyers, lenders, and attorneys.

Built For

Who It's For

Business Owners

Preparing for sale? Your Certified Asset Record proves every asset's condition, value, and legal status — eliminating buyer objections and accelerating close.

Buyers & Private Equity

Acquisition due diligence on a timeline? Access a pre-certified, auditor-validated asset record with chain-of-custody documentation.

Lenders & SBA Offices

Require asset verification for financing? Our audit-grade certified records are structured to align with SBA and commercial lending documentation standards.

Comprehensive Coverage

7 Due Diligence Domains

We don't just count equipment. We document and certify every operational domain of your business.

Equipment & Rolling Stock
Facilities & Real Property
Customer Contracts
Vendor Relationships
Human Capital
Financial Performance
Operating Systems & IP

Engagement Tiers

Investment & Pricing

Every engagement is scoped to your business. Pricing reflects the full cost of a defensible certification — senior auditor time, independent QA, lien/title verification, E&O-backed liability, secure vault hosting — and the value it protects at the closing table.

Starter

Equipment Only

$18,000–$35,000

Single-location, equipment-heavy businesses under ~$3M.

  • Physical inventory & condition report
  • Lien & title verification
  • Certified Asset Record
  • Photo evidence package
  • E&O-backed certification
  • 6-month vault access
Most Popular

Professional

Full Company

$55,000–$95,000

All 7 domains. Full audit, QA review, certification + DataVault.

  • All 7 due diligence domains
  • Full audit + independent QA sign-off
  • E&O / liability-backed certification
  • DataVault secure access (12 mo.)
  • Deal room for buyers/lenders
  • Chain-of-custody + tamper-evident record

Enterprise

Multi-Location / PE Portfolio

$95,000–$175,000+

Complex capital structures, or value-based % of transaction.

  • Everything in Professional
  • Multi-location coordination
  • PE portfolio management
  • Multi-party deal room access
  • Priority auditor assignment
  • Value-based pricing option (% of deal value)

Why the investment is priced this way

A certified record is not a labor-and-equipment line item. Each engagement carries the full cost stack of a professional certification — senior auditor and field time, independent QA sign-off, lien/UCC and title verification, licensing and compliance, technology and secure vault hosting, sales and onboarding, and the E&O / professional-liability coverage that stands behind a legally defensible record. On a typical transaction, our fee represents a fraction of one percent of enterprise value while protecting the whole of it — reducing retrades, shortening diligence, and de-risking lender and buyer approval. For larger or complex deals we also offer value-based engagements priced as a percentage of transaction value.

Cost-loaded

Every quote includes overhead, QA, licensing, risk, and liability — not just field labor.

Value-anchored

Often <1% of enterprise value; anchored to the value it protects, not hours worked.

Scales with complexity

Asset volume, domains, locations, and capital structure drive the final scope.

Want to see exactly how a quote is built — line by line — for a specific deal?

Everyone at the transaction table is playing their own hand

Sellers fear leaving money behind. Buyers fear overpaying. Lenders fear collateral shortfall. Brokers fear the deal dying. Attorneys fear post-close litigation. CPAs fear audit exposure. Each party holds a different FOMO — and every unverified line item is invisible leverage for whoever discovers it first. A certified asset record doesn't level the playing field. It removes the field's hidden edges — and exposes everyone who was relying on shortcuts instead of evidence.

See the full cost-of-shortcuts analysis

Why It Matters

What a Certified Record Changes

The value of certification shows up as risk removed, time saved, and confidence earned at the closing table.

Every unverified asset is hidden leverage

In a transaction, whatever is not proven becomes a bargaining chip for the other side. A certified record closes those gaps before they can be used against you — so the value you built is the value you defend.

Certainty shortens the path to close

Redundant, back-and-forth diligence is where deals stall and momentum dies. A pre-verified, evidence-backed asset record gives every party one trusted source — removing rework and keeping the timeline moving.

Confidence at the table

When assets are documented, condition-scored, and lien-checked in advance, buyers, lenders, and attorneys can act with confidence instead of suspicion. Clarity replaces friction — and protects the relationship through close.

As engagements reach certification, we will publish client outcomes here — de-identified and shared only with permission — so the story is told with evidence, not claims.

Ready to Certify Your Assets?

Start your engagement today. Your dedicated auditor will contact you within 1 business day.