The agenda is the coverage specification. Every line names the dimension it evidences, so a question the meeting never reached becomes a gap against that dimension rather than a silence nobody notices.
The diligence review, run weekly for as long as a candidate is live. The agenda is built so that a question nobody got to reads as an open gap rather than as a quiet green tick — which is the failure mode of every diligence checklist that gets marked complete on the last day.
Also called: Diligence stand-up · Workstream review · Technical deep dive · Reference call debrief · IC pre-read
8 lines in the full specification, 3 of them scoped to a stage — so any one candidate is measured against 6–7 of them. Run every 7 days. The order is the running order.
3 of these 8 lines are stage-scoped. A flat agenda asks every row the same questions regardless of where it has got to, which manufactures gaps that are not gaps — and false gaps drown the real ones, which is the whole reason an uncovered question is allowed to mean something here.
Lines shown are the stage-scoped ones. The rest are in force at every diligence phase.
Each carries a weight in the roll-up. A dimension with no evidence behind it is not scored at a middle value — it renders as unknown, and below the coverage floor the row reads never covered rather than green.
Whether the market claim survived contact with people outside the company.
What the technology actually is, what it depends on, and what it would cost to scale.
Whether the numbers reconcile to source and the model rests on stated assumptions.
Cap table, IP ownership, contracts and anything that binds after closing.
What customers and partners say when the company is not in the room.
What is open, who owns closing it, and what would change the recommendation.
Because each line names a dimension, the gap scanner can say which one went uncovered and for how long. These are the four states it raises, and each one is a different problem with a different fix.
The line has never been reached in this room. The dimension has no evidence at all.
It was raised and the room moved on without landing an answer.
It was covered, but not within the 7-day cadence this room type expects.
There is an answer and an action, and nobody's name is against it.
Due Diligence Rooms is one of eleven configurations of the same engine. The demo runs on fictitious candidates and sample data — every number traces back to something somebody said in the room.