Due Diligence Report — the full file on a site you're serious about

Deliverables

What you walk away with

A clear go/no-go verdict

A scored risk assessment with explicit reasoning. You know whether to proceed, with what conditions, and why.

A stakeholder map scored for persuadability

Every key decision-maker profiled: voting history, stated concerns, political cycle, and who influences them.

The opposition file

Named groups, leadership, tactics, activation status, and whether their playbook transfers to your site.

The threshold conditions, before politics starts

Water rights, noise standards, visual impact mandates, power rates: the non-negotiables independent of political goodwill.

The precedent playbook

Every comparable project in the jurisdiction: what approval required, what failed, what the opposition argued.

A messaging strategy built for this community

What framing lands, what to avoid, and how to position you as a partner.

Inside the Due Diligence Report

Fifty-plus pages that read like a briefing, not a file dump

Page one of a real Due Diligence Report — the executive summary, anonymized, exactly as it reads on your desk.

Due Diligence Sample ReportCedar Vale County, KY

Cedar Vale County will say yes — and make the buyer pay for it, in public, under pressure, at a price it has already written down.

There is no zoning here and no land-use vote to lose, so nothing stands between the project and construction except the tax deal — and the county has never voted against it. What the county wants in exchange is already itemized, down to fire trucks and ballfields: roughly $61 million up front and $13.1 million a year, in return for cutting the tax bill. Local officials distrust developers on the record and have built the bargain accordingly, with penalties, inspections, and a letter of credit. Nobody needs to like the buyer for this to close.

3.0/5Friction (Moderate Risk)

What to expect

Everything filed becomes public. Residents have spent a year suing officials and demanding their emails. Assume anything handed to the county will be obtained and republished.

Opposition that loses but never stops. It has lost in court, lost an ethics complaint, and lost at the ballot box — and it still packs every meeting.

Rumors and conspiracies. Since press named the likely buyer, residents have been investigating it and circulating theories about foreign control. That conversation is happening with or without the buyer in it.

A hostile room at the first public appearance. This audience has been rehearsing for a year. A single evasive answer will do damage no benefits package can undo.

A court challenge after the agreement is signed. One resident can appeal it and slow the timetable. Expect it, and price the delay rather than the denial.

What to watch

The one real uncertainty is who holds the pen. Under a 2024 state opinion, this entire decision belongs to a single official, the county judge/executive — and the official who built this bargain leaves office December 31. The successor takes over January 1 having promised only an informed decision. The buyer should arrive with everything checkable and enforceable from day one, and close before the transition if it can.

FlypowerCedar Vale County, KentuckyExecutive summary · 3

Anonymized from an actual Due Diligence Report. Place names, people, and organizations are fictional equivalents; findings are as delivered. Officials are described by role.

When to use it

For decisions that move serious capital

Before you commit

Ahead of an interconnection deposit, land close, or board approval — when the cost of being wrong is measured in years.

Before the first filing

The report tells you what to resolve, who to brief, and what to offer before the application makes your plans public.

After a workable Flyover

Most clients screen with the Flyover first, then commission the full report on sites that clear the screen.

Every consequential claim links to the public record. Analysts review every finding; an independent editor reviews every report.

The full file on a site you're serious about.