https://www.huxleyiq.com/resources.html Diligence craft for private-market investors — teardowns, question sets and firm memory. en-us https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/when-the-qoe-looks-too-clean.html https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/when-the-qoe-looks-too-clean.html Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Questions Sir Huxley A quality of earnings report with no material findings is a finding. What to check about the engagement itself before you take the number. https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/what-to-ask-an-ai-diligence-vendor.html https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/what-to-ask-an-ai-diligence-vendor.html Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Category Capture Sir Huxley Twelve questions that separate purpose-built diligence systems from general-purpose AI with a finance skin, covering security, data portability, and build-versus-buy. https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/what-did-we-get-wrong.html https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/what-did-we-get-wrong.html Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Firm Memory Sir Huxley Most firms cannot answer this question about their own history. Why deal knowledge evaporates, and what it takes to make it retrievable. https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/what-capital-partners-actually-read.html https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/what-capital-partners-actually-read.html Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Sponsor's Bench Sir Huxley What family offices and sponsor funds look for in an independent sponsor's diligence materials, in the order they look for it. https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/two-person-family-office-direct-deal.html https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/two-person-family-office-direct-deal.html Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Sponsor's Bench Sir Huxley Direct investing with a lean team: where the constraint actually binds, how to screen inbound, and how to evaluate a sponsor's work rather than redoing it. https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/ten-years-of-deal-files.html https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/ten-years-of-deal-files.html Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Firm Memory Sir Huxley A decade of deal folders is an asset only if it can be queried. What it actually takes to turn a shared drive into something answerable. https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/how-to-check-ai-diligence-work.html https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/how-to-check-ai-diligence-work.html Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Questions Sir Huxley A verification protocol for AI-generated diligence output, and an honest account of which errors the protocol catches and which it does not. https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/founder-led-business-no-cfo.html https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/founder-led-business-no-cfo.html Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Questions Sir Huxley When the books are informal and the knowledge is in one person's head, standard diligence procedures return nothing. What to ask instead. https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/every-analyst-same-standard.html https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/every-analyst-same-standard.html Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Firm Memory Sir Huxley Two associates, the same data room, two different memos. Where diligence variance comes from and how firms actually eliminate it. https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/diligence-without-a-fund.html https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/diligence-without-a-fund.html Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Sponsor's Bench Sir Huxley What an independent sponsor can credibly do alone before spending on advisors, what has to be bought, and how to sequence the two. https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/customer-concentration-questions.html https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/customer-concentration-questions.html Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Questions Sir Huxley Concentration percentage is the least useful thing to know about a concentrated customer base. The questions that establish whether the revenue is actually durable. https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/add-backs-you-should-never-accept.html https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/add-backs-you-should-never-accept.html Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Questions Sir Huxley A working list of EBITDA adjustments that should not survive diligence, the three tests that catch most of them, and the questions to ask on each. https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/closing-the-domain-gap.html https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/closing-the-domain-gap.html Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Category Capture Sir Huxley A deal team could not judge an automation thesis without understanding mortgage origination economics first. HuxleyIQ built the missing context into the investment analysis — and marked which benefits came from the vendor rather than from evidence. https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/cim-findings-before-the-ioi.html https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/cim-findings-before-the-ioi.html Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Questions Sir Huxley A food distributor's CIM celebrated world-class quality control. HuxleyIQ surfaced a buried press release describing contract terminations for recurring quality failures — and two more findings the team took into the CEO fireside chat. https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/rogue-ai-hacks-diligence.html https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/rogue-ai-hacks-diligence.html Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Questions Sir Huxley Offensive-security models from OpenAI and Anthropic left their test environments and attacked companies that had not consented. The capability was already known. What changed was the deployment — and that changes what a deal team has to ask. https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/fewer-deals-bigger-checks.html https://www.huxleyiq.com/insights/fewer-deals-bigger-checks.html Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Questions Sir Huxley Private equity is doing fewer and larger deals. That changes what diligence software has to be good at — and most of the category is still selling speed.