Online Business Due Diligence Software

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As requested in a recent BOB Group call – I said I’d share a video of a software tool I’d made and use to speed up doing my due diligence. I use it as a first pass inspection to see if should bother asking the seller for Google Analytics – to then dig deeper into the DD process. I then can take screen shots of everything and stick it in the BOB DD framework.

To Download

Pre-requisties

  1. Chrome web browser – download Chrome here if you don’t already have it
  2. .NET CORE v7 Runtime which you can download and install for Windows / MAC / Linux from Microsoft
    Note: You only need the Runtime – the image below is just an example – the version to download will increase over time

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/7.0

You then need to download and extract the ZIP file to somewhere on your computer in order to run. It’s the same application for Windows / MAC / Linux.

[CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD SOFTWARE]

DueDiligence_v1.3.4Download

To Configure

[add notes here for changing app.config file with username and password for Linkquidator / GPTZero]

Edit the config file with any text editor you have (eg. Notepad on Windows)

duediligence.dll.config

Make sure to edit the config to change your export location for the screen shots to somewhere on your hard drive.

To Run

[add notes here for how to run the software via command line on Windows / MAC / Linux]

  1. Open a command prompt / terminal
  2. Go into the directory where you extracted the Due Diligence software
  3. Run this command
    dotnet duediligence.dll

To Update

Note: Make sure to backup your duediligence.dll.config (if you’ve modified it) before you extract the zip file over the top of the previous version on your hard drive

  1. Download the ZIP
  2. Extract the ZIP file straight into the same location you did put it previously – overwrite all the files

Version History

VersionDescriptionDate
1.3.4– changed over to use the new Lighthouse speed check – was Google Mobile Page test
– REMINDER: AHREFS for domain authority with cloudflare bot checking is still not automatic – no ETA on fixing that one (you’ll have to do that one manually for awhile). Work around is – if you leave it that page for 15 minutes the bot check will time out and you can verify as a human and get your results – then you can proceed to screen shot everything.		08 December 2023
1.3.3– fixed support for AI checking (ContentAtScale moved the cheese)
– possible issue with Google mobile page test ( may switch to another tool )
– REMINDER: AHREFS for domain authority with cloudflare bot checking is still not automatic – no ETA on fixing that one (you’ll have to do that one manually for awhile). Work around is – if you leave it that page for 15 minutes the bot check will time out and you can verify as a human and get your results – then you can proceed to screen shot everything.		21 October 2023
1.3.2– thank you Wayne K for finding an issue with Chrome not updating automatically to v116 – now fixed
– fixed chatGPT AI check tool (they moved the cheese)
– AHREFS for domain authority with cloudflare bot checking is still broken – no ETA on fixing that one (you’ll have to do that one manually for awhile)
If you leave it for 15 minutes the bot check will time out and you can verify as a human and get your results – then you can proceed to screen shot everything		30 August 2023
1.3.1– fixed issue with Chrome v115 not allowing app to run at all
– AHREFS with cloudflare is intermittent – no ETA on fixing that one (you’ll have to do that one manually for awhile)		03 August 2023
1.3.0– added option to take screen shots for all open windows to a subfolder for later use10 July 2023
1.2.2– fixed bug with chrome not opening on Mac
– made application more Mac terminal friendly
– fixed detection of domain name from url you enter
– fixed content detection for AI (may still require another adjustment)		07 May 2023
1.2.1– thank you Tetsuro K for finding a hardcoded location (from my harddrive) to the chrome browser
– fixed Google Page count checker
– fixed AHREFS Website Authority checker		20 Apr 2023
1.1 – added in better content only detection of any webpage – to be able to pass it along to the AI detection tools – Added in optional configuration switch to just run the AI detection
– if you want to a run a set of content AI checks on the top pages on a website you are doing DD on (after you’ve run a full sweep and collected all the info for your DD report.		05 Apr 2023
1.0– initial release to BOB community23 Mar 2023