Acquisition QuestTerms, in plain English
← Back to calculatorPlease read this before purchasing or relying on an Acquisition Quest result. The short version: Acquisition Quest helps you organize an early investigation. It does not verify the deal or make the decision for you.
Acquisition Quest is a service operated by Catalyst Consulting Charleston LLC. References to “Acquisition Quest,” “we,” “us,” or “our” in these terms refer to that operator. Payments, support, reports, and customer communications may use the Acquisition Quest brand.
Acquisition Quest provides automated educational screening, calculations, explanations, research context, questions, and organizational tools for people considering a business purchase. Nothing on the website, in an email, report, Deal Brief, workspace, or support message is legal, tax, accounting, lending, appraisal, insurance, environmental, real-estate, or investment advice—or a recommendation to buy, sell, offer, borrow, or proceed.
Results may combine information entered by the user, seller- or broker-reported claims, editable assumptions, Acquisition Quest formulas, specifically identified outside sources, and constrained automated analysis. These categories should remain visibly separate. Acquisition Quest does not independently audit, inspect, appraise, underwrite, authenticate, or verify the information supplied.
A result can be incomplete or wrong when an input is incomplete, wrong, outdated, inconsistent, or misunderstood. Listings and seller statements are marketing claims until supported. Public records and demographic or industry sources can contain estimates, reporting delays, geographic limitations, small samples, or errors. Interest rates, program rules, property conditions, competition, operating performance, and other circumstances can change after a report is created.
An asking-price comparison is not a valuation. A modeled payment or debt-coverage result is not lender approval. Projected cash, profit, equity, net worth, or performance is not guaranteed and may not occur. Acquisition Quest does not determine whether a business is safe, suitable, affordable, financeable, compliant, or worth purchasing.
You are responsible for checking inputs, obtaining source documents, investigating the opportunity, protecting confidential information, and deciding whether to proceed. Before signing an offer, letter of intent, purchase agreement, lease, note, guaranty, or other commitment—or transferring money—use appropriately licensed or qualified attorneys, accountants, tax professionals, lenders, appraisers, inspectors, insurance professionals, environmental professionals, and industry specialists.
A paid report purchases an automated analysis of the information available at the time. It does not purchase a favorable conclusion, successful financing, professional opinion, or completed due-diligence review. If your report is not delivered, cannot be accessed, or is materially unusable because of an Acquisition Quest technical problem, contact us within 14 days. We will correct it, replace it, or provide a refund as appropriate. If you have another concern, contact us within 14 days and we will review it fairly. An unfavorable analysis is not, by itself, a product failure. Payment-provider receipts and Acquisition Quest fulfillment messages are separate records.
A qualifying paid $49 Decision Report may include one invitation for one new Acquisition Quest buyer. The invited person must use the assigned email address and complete the free Decision Report before the referrer earns a reward. The reward waives the $7 price of one eligible follow-up analysis but still consumes one of the seven follow-up slots in an active package. Invitations and rewards are single-use, have no cash value, cannot be sold, and may expire or be withheld, reversed, or reviewed after duplication, self-referral, inaccurate information, refund, chargeback, dispute, suspected abuse, or technical error. Acquisition Quest may pause or end the pilot while preserving properly earned rewards when reasonably possible.
Automated analysis is instructed to use only the supplied report packet and approved, cited research. Safeguards reduce unsupported claims but cannot eliminate every error. Outside context must be dated and attributed; it should never be treated as business-specific proof, a comparable-sales appraisal, a customer forecast, or a substitute for parcel-level and professional review.
Features may be delayed, modified, suspended, or discontinued. We may correct errors and update these terms as the service develops. A material paid-service change should be presented before a new purchase or renewal. Your report should preserve the assumptions, sources, date, and disclosure version used when it was generated.
Contact support@acquisitionquest.com with questions about a purchase, report delivery, privacy request, refund request, or these disclosures. These terms are intended for a U.S. educational software service and may be revised after professional legal review.
Updated August 31, 2026 · Disclosure version 2026-08-31-v3