Advisory · London
We find what diligence finds — before it does.
Avant Partners prepares companies for the moments when someone else does the checking: an investment committee, a listing sponsor, a rating agency, a security review. We do that work as advisers — and we publish the tools we use.
The estate
Five terminals, free at the entry point.
Our method is not a description on a page — it runs in public, and you can put your own company through it before you talk to us. Nobody should buy a diligence process they have not tested.
Diligence terminals
The three that answer the same question the practice answers — will this file stand up when someone else does the checking?
Pre-IPO Terminal
preipo.uk
The FPPP diagnostic — 73 criteria across the nine areas, each mapped to the UK Listing Rules and ICAEW TECH 14/14CFF.
Issuers and their advisers, ahead of a London listing.
vc-scan.com
vc-scan.com
Valuation and pre-diligence — five methods blended by stage, with a Companies House cross-check against the story being told.
Founders raising, investors triaging inbound.
grc-scan.com
grc-scan.com
Security and compliance readiness in plain English — posture scanned and explained, not just scored.
Small businesses facing a security or procurement review.
Reference terminals
The same measurement engine pointed at public records, in two markets that move the assets our clients are trying to price.
The Order Paper
top-news.uk
Multi-source synthesis, a poll-of-polls on a 14-day half-life, and the parliamentary day as it happens.
Anyone who has to read the UK political day quickly.
Datum
thedatum.uk
AI models, prices and incidents — every measurement published with its method, its components and its full history.
Anyone pricing an asset that AI capability moves.
Preparation is the work. The event is the receipt.
A listing, a round, a rating, a contract award — each is decided long before the day it happens, by whether the file stands up. We build the file: the equity story and the model beneath it, the board and its committees, the controls, the records a sponsor or an investment committee will ask to see. Then we check it the way they will.
The software is not a side business. It is the proof that the method exists outside one person's head — a process a stranger can run is a process that can be audited.
The practice
Partner-led. Fixed scope. The deliverable named up front.
Capital markets and listing readiness
FPPP and sponsor readiness, IR function design, GDR and ADR routes, the equity story and the model beneath it.
An FPPP gap report against 73 criteria, with the remediation sequenced.
Diligence and valuation
Venture and investment due diligence at volume, DCF and comparables, cap table and instrument review.
A valuation with every method, weight and assumption shown.
Platform advisory
Bulk and white-label use of the terminals for funds, advisers and corporate development teams.
Your own deal flow run through the same engine, on your own terms.
The partners
Andrei Syropiatov
Founder and Managing Partner
Twenty-five years in risk, investment analysis and investor relations: institutional due diligence and valuation at a multilateral development bank, corporate credit risk at a French corporate and investment bank, rating advisory at a Russian commercial bank, and ten years running investor relations for a consumer lender through repeated rating cycles and Eurobond issuance.
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