For sellers

Free seller pre-check: see what a buyer's first pass will flag, before you list

Short answer: send us your name and email and we reply with the red flags a buyer's first pass would raise on your listing and the facts that would answer each one. It is free, there is no payment step, and nothing is published.

Updated 25 October 2026 · By Joan Murphy (pen name) · How we check · Corrections

What you get

• A reply by email, usually within two working days, asking for your draft listing or its link.
• The flags our 37 published rules raise on it, with severity, as a buyer would see them in the checker.
• For each flag, the question a buyer is likely to send you and the fact that would answer it (for example customer concentration, owner hours with a task list, or the last three months next to the 12-month average).
• Optional wording you may add to your listing (below). You decide whether to use it.

What you do not get: a valuation, a price recommendation, listing copywriting, or any promise that the listing will sell. We do not take money from sellers or brokers, and we never hide or soften a flag.

Request a pre-check

Prefer to do it yourself now? The self-serve pre-check runs the same rules in your browser.

Optional "Pre-checked" line for your listing

If you have reviewed our flags and answered them in your listing, you may add this line. It says what happened and no more:

Pre-checked by FirstPass Memo: the seller has reviewed the first-pass red flags on this listing and answered them below. This is not a certification, audit or verification of the business.

Short badge text, for places with little room:

Pre-checked by FirstPass Memo · seller reviewed the red flags · not a certification

What the badge means: the seller ran the first-pass check and reviewed its flags. What it does not mean: FirstPass Memo has not verified the figures, audited the business, or endorsed the listing or its price. Please do not reword it into a certification. Buyers should still run their own check.