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Drop the document
Upload the APA, commercial lease, employment agreement, seller note, or other live-deal document in PDF, DOCX, or scan form. Inkvex is built for active diligence materials, not generic contract intake.
For Self-Funded Searchers
Your Diligence Partner, From LOI to Close.
Purpose-built for self-funded searchers reviewing APAs, leases, employment agreements, and seller paper. Risk score 1-10, quoted red flags, jurisdiction citations, and attorney-ready first-pass report.
Legal information, not legal advice. Inkvex is a first pass before attorney review.
Legal information, not legal advice
Clear boundary for high-stakes decisions
First-pass for your attorney
Clause quotes, risk score, and issue triage
Built for live diligence
APAs, FDDs, leases, notes, and employment docs
InkvexAttorney handoff previewCross-Reference Map
6compound risks
Section 8.4(b)-(c)Tax and title reps survive 24 months
Section 2.3Escrow releases at month 18
Compound exposureRecovery gap after escrow release
Buyer can win the indemnity claim and still lack a funded recovery source for late-discovered tax or title claims.
High riskCounsel ask ready
14-day money-back
Full refund within 14 days on one-time SKUs. Email support@inkvex.app.
Built for buyers, by buyers
Inkvex is built for self-funded ETA searchers, franchise candidates, and commercial tenants. Not enterprise legal teams.
First-pass for your attorney
Legal information, not legal advice. Inkvex surfaces issues so counsel starts on page 12, not page 1.
Pick the document lane
Built around the documents that move your deal.
Start with the document in front of you: acquisition diligence, franchise review, or commercial lease review. Each lane leads to the right first-pass report for your attorney.
Searcher lane
APA and seller-note diligence
Use Inkvex before the attorney call to surface indemnity caps, survival periods, escrow mechanics, customer consents, SBA seller-note standby issues, and cross-document interactions.
Open lane →Franchise laneFDD and franchise agreement review
Turn the 14-day review window into an issue list: Item 19 support, Item 20 turnover, territory limits, transfer friction, renewal economics, and personal-guarantee exposure.
Open lane →Lease laneCommercial lease risk review
Review CAM, assignment, personal guarantee, tenant improvement, renewal, escalation, and California SB 1103 issues before a long lease commitment becomes operating leverage.
Open lane →How It Works
Built to narrow the field before counsel starts a full first read.
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Analyze the risk
Inkvex reads every clause, assigns a risk score 1-10, quotes the red flags, cross-references compounding interactions, and drafts an executive verdict. The output is organized for triage, not generic summarization.
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Send the first pass to counsel
Export the structured PDF report and send it to your attorney as a starting point. Counsel begins with surfaced issues, not a blank page and a full first read.
Where Inkvex fits in your deal
First-pass diligence for the buyer, prep for the attorney handoff. Inkvex sits upstream of legal time, downstream of the document landing.
Brief your attorney faster
Counsel is still essential. Inkvex narrows the field before the first redline arrives: indemnity scope, consent requirements, survival periods, assignment limits, concentration exposure, and other issues that determine where legal time should start.
Catch the deal-breaker before it breaks
Dead deals still consume time and billable hours. Inkvex lets you triage incoming diligence the day it lands, before review costs compound and before a preventable issue survives deep enough to threaten the transaction.
Diligence, not a skim
A skim is not a diligence pass. Inkvex is built to surface the clauses, interactions, and remedy gaps that are easiest to miss when documents are reviewed one section at a time under time pressure.
What the Report Includes
Every Inkvex report is structured for the searcher’s lawyer: triage at the top, clause-level evidence underneath, and negotiation leverage where it matters.
Representative report system
Illustrative outputWhat the report includes
Three premium modules on one shared surface: decision posture, compound clause exposure, and counsel-ready negotiation asks.
Executive Deal Verdict
The posture counsel sees first, with the deal consequence above the evidence list.
8/10Negotiate
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HighIndemnity cap releases too early
Cap protection expires before the survival tail ends.
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MedCustomer consent concentration
Top account transfer risk can remain unresolved at close.
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MedSeller note offsets
Open claims need tighter offset mechanics.
Cross-Reference Map
Clause interactions shown as a system, not a list of disconnected snippets.
6Risks
Section 8.4(b)-(c) + Section 2.3Escrow and survival conflict
Compound exposureRecovery gap after escrow release
Buyer can win the claim and still lose practical recovery once the funded source is released.
Counsel askAlign escrow release with tax and title survival.
Negotiation Points
Priority asks tied to benchmark sources and written for the attorney call.
3Asks
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HighSurvival and escrow
Ask: 24-month survival with retained escrow coverage.
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HighNamed consents
Ask: written consent from top accounts before close.
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MedSeller note offsets
Ask: preserve offsets for unresolved indemnity claims.
Representative example.Legal information, not legal advice.First-pass for attorney review.
Updated May 2026
Current Statutory Framework
Inkvex tracks the law changes that affect ETA, franchise, lease, and acquisition diligence before they become expensive surprises.
SBA Acquisition Diligence
SBA SOP 50 10 8 (effective June 1, 2025)
Seller notes that count toward the buyer's required equity injection must be on full standby (no principal, no interest payments) for the entire life of the SBA loan. A seller note can satisfy at most 50% of the equity injection.
Federal Non-Compete Law
FTC Section 5 enforcement (Rollins consent order, April 15, 2026)
The FTC Non-Compete Rule was vacated by Ryan LLC v. FTC (N.D. Tex., August 20, 2024) and formally removed from the CFR effective February 12, 2026. Federal posture is now industry-by-industry FTC Section 5 enforcement.
State Non-Compete Law
Florida CHOICE Act; Washington ESHB 1155 (effective June 30, 2027)
Florida permits covered 4-year non-competes for higher-earning employees. Washington's near-total ban applies to proceedings commenced on or after June 30, 2027. California, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Oklahoma void most employee non-competes; seller non-competes in genuine business sales remain enforceable under CA Bus. & Prof. Code § 16601 and Minn. Stat. § 181.988(4).
California Commercial Leases
SB 1103 (effective January 1, 2025)
Qualified commercial tenants get two-tier rent-increase notice: 30 days for increases of 10% or less; 90 days for increases above 10%. Operating-cost recovery must meet Civil Code § 1950.9 documentation and allocation requirements.
FDD Item 20 Franchise Disclosure
FTC v. Xponential Fitness ($17M settlement, March 2026)
The FTC alleged Xponential misreported or omitted franchisees whose studios ceased operation, were terminated, cancelled, or not renewed during the previous year. Inkvex flags Item 20 turnover and departed-franchisee disclosure gaps against this enforcement posture.
Privacy in M&A Diligence
CCPA/CPRA Sept. 2025 regulations; CA AB 1824
AB 1824 requires an acquiring business to honor a seller's pre-closing opt-out directions after a merger or acquisition. CPPA regulations effective January 1, 2026 expand diligence questions around risk assessments, cybersecurity audits, and automated decision-making technology.
Hand your attorney a finished first pass.
Run the first pass before legal time starts. Send counsel a structured report with the risk score, quoted clauses, and the issues worth immediate attention.