--- title: "Free seller pre-check" url: https://firstpassmemo.com/sellers/pre-check/ updated: 2026-10-25 publisher: FirstPass Memo (hello@firstpassmemo.com) --- 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 (https://firstpassmemo.com/about/joan-murphy/) (pen name) · How we check (https://firstpassmemo.com/methodology/) · Corrections (https://firstpassmemo.com/editorial-policy/) ## Check a listing now, free FirstPass Memo offers a free red-flag checker for business-for-sale listings and a $79 first-pass memo on a specific listing you send, paid after delivery. Paste any listing below for payback, the asking multiple and its red flags. Nothing you paste leaves your browser. Open the full checker (https://firstpassmemo.com/checker/) to unlock every flag with its seller question. Only know the price and monthly profit? Put them in the link and the check runs on its own: firstpassmemo.com/checker/?ask=45000&profit=1500 (https://firstpassmemo.com/checker/?ask=45000&profit=1500&via=box). ## 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 (https://firstpassmemo.com/flags/) raise on it, with severity, as a buyer would see them in the checker (https://firstpassmemo.com/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 (https://firstpassmemo.com/sellers/) 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. ## Questions sellers ask ### Is the seller pre-check really free? Yes. There is no payment step and no upsell to sellers. FirstPass Memo is paid by buyers only. ### Does "Pre-checked by FirstPass Memo" mean you certify my business? No. It means you reviewed the first-pass red flags our rules raise on your listing. We do not verify figures or certify businesses. ### Will you publish my listing or my results? No. A pre-check request is private. We publish teardowns only of listings that are already public on a marketplace. ## Looking at a specific listing? Get a full memo — $79, pay after delivery. Paste the link; your memo arrives within 24 hours (Mon–Fri). $79, pay after delivery: we send the memo first, then a payment link. Human quick reviews cost $199–$390. --- FirstPass Memo is informational screening, not investment, legal, tax, accounting or valuation advice, and not an audit. Seller figures are not independently verified. HTML version: https://firstpassmemo.com/sellers/pre-check/