# Buy Scale Sell vs Guardian Due Diligence

A fixed-price report, or the shop that lives in deals this size?

## Choose Buy Scale Sell

Choose Buy Scale Sell when you want the bill before the conversation: a quality of earnings report at $4,500, a valuation report at $1,499 and a diligence bundle at $9,500, each priced on its homepage. The first and the third apply only to businesses grossing under $500,000 a year, and anything larger is quoted custom. What a list price cannot cover is a messy set of books, which its own row names as the case a fixed product handles least well.

## Choose Guardian Due Diligence

Choose Guardian when the deal size is the whole practice: a quality of earnings shop whose front door names $1M to $10M purchase prices, publishing exact tiers at $20k for the light version, $25k for the full report and $40k with founder hours. Read the caveat beside those numbers. They hold under $2 million of purchase price, and a larger deal is quoted higher without the page saying how much.

## Side by side

| | Buy Scale Sell | Guardian Due Diligence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What It Is | A paid valuation and diligence shop selling fixed-price products rather than engagements: a valuation report, a quality of earnings report, a diligence bundle, a key-person risk audit and an exit readiness audit, each with its price on its own page. | A quality-of-earnings boutique for searcher-sized deals, naming $1M to $10M purchase prices on its front door. It offers a full QoE, a QoE Light delivered in Excel without the report, Cash Proof, and an Advised QoE with founder hours, plus a Deal Closer's Society membership for part-time searchers and Guardian Grow, a post-close program priced with an equity earn-in. Founded in 2017 by Elliott Holland, with $600M+ in transactions and 1,500+ deals evaluated. |
| Category | Diligence & Earnings Review | Diligence & Earnings Review |
| Pricing Model | One-Time | One-Time |
| What It Costs | Published per product on its own pages: a valuation report at $1,499, a quality of earnings report at $4,500, a diligence bundle at $9,500, a key-person risk audit at $3,500 and a portfolio valuation at $2,499, with advisory quoted separately. | Publishes exact tiers on its services page: QoE Light $20k, full QoE $25k, Advised QoE $40k, with the caveat that pricing is for deals under $2 million in purchase price and larger deals are slightly more. Deal Closer's Society runs $24k one time or $3k per month for up to 18 months; Guardian Grow is $1k per month plus a 1 to 5 percent equity earn-in on a 3 year vesting schedule. |
| Best For | A buyer who wants to know the price of a second opinion before asking for one | Self-funded searchers who want a QoE shop that lives in sub-$5M deals rather than a regional CPA firm fitting them in |
| Where It Fits | Source & Screen Deals, Diligence & Close the Deal | Diligence & Close the Deal |
| Our Verdict | The published price is the reason to look; read which side each product was written for. | Shortlist them for QoE on searcher-sized deals; with the tiers published, the first call is a scoping call rather than a pricing discovery. |

Full review of Buy Scale Sell: https://searchspheresource.com/resources/buy-scale-sell
Full review of Guardian Due Diligence: https://searchspheresource.com/resources/guardian-due-diligence

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Last checked: 2026-09-04

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