# Guardian Due Diligence Alternatives

Guardian publishes exact tiers and names $1M to $10M purchase prices on its front door rather than fitting a searcher in around larger clients. Buyers look at other shops when they want a cheap pre-LOI read before committing to a full engagement, when they want the legal diligence in the same package, or when the deal is an online business rather than a main-street one.

The Guardian Due Diligence review itself: https://searchspheresource.com/resources/guardian-due-diligence

## What Searchers Use Instead

- Rapid Diligence (One-Time, https://searchspheresource.com/resources/rapid-diligence): A full QoE from $16.5k against Guardian's $25k, plus a $750 pre-LOI screen that can kill a bad deal before the money goes in.
- Bedrock Quality of Earnings (One-Time, https://searchspheresource.com/resources/bedrock-qoe): The whole fee agreed before any work starts, and a focused Cash Proof and Red Flag Review short of a full report.
- SMB Diligence (Custom Pricing, https://searchspheresource.com/resources/smb-diligence): Quality of earnings and legal diligence from one provider, as two fixed-rate packages, for a self-funded searcher on a budget.
- Centurica (Custom Pricing, https://searchspheresource.com/resources/centurica): For an online or digitally native business, from a firm that lives in that deal type.
- Midwest CPA (One-Time, https://searchspheresource.com/resources/midwest-cpa): Diligence and the post-close bookkeeping from one firm that already knows the deal.

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/alternatives/guardian-due-diligence
Last checked: 2026-09-04

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