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PROMPTFORCE™ creates “Clarity Before the Close™” — a Proactive Reverse Due Diligence (PRDD) and transactional readiness process that equips leaders to think like buyers and prepare like sellers. PRDD is a readiness protocol for buyers, sellers, boards, and investors when blind spots are unacceptable.
Built for buyers, sellers, investment bankers, board members, institutional investors, and accredited investors who cannot afford avoidable surprises.
PRDD is a structured readiness protocol that organizes reality so owners, operators, buyers, boards, and stewards of capital can see what is really there before money, reputation, or opportunity are put at risk. Most organizations enter financing, sale, succession, recapitalization, or restructuring with fragmented information and undocumented practices. PRDD brings order to that chaos.
For sellers and operators, PRDD creates a defensible story, a stronger valuation narrative, and a smoother transaction by aligning what is presented with how the business actually runs. For boards and governance leaders, it is a disciplined way to surface operational and cultural realities that usually remain invisible until late in the process.
For buyers, investment committees, and institutional or accredited investors, PRDD sharpens due diligence by revealing the quality of earnings, the character of leadership, and the health of systems and culture before capital is committed. Instead of relying on urgency, optimism, or partial stories, decisions are grounded in what the organization can actually sustain.
PRDD helps when you are asking:
Strategy, capital, and legal work can only optimize what is visible, coherent, and trusted. PRDD™ makes the operational, cultural, and reputational realities of an organization legible to buyers, boards, investment bankers, and investors. When decision‑makers can trust what they are seeing, valuation conversations become more grounded, diligence becomes more efficient, and avoidable surprises are reduced.
Our clients typically face meaningful thresholds—sale, succession, recapitalization, or strategic partnership—and want fewer surprises, cleaner negotiations, and stronger valuation signals.
Common situations include:
For capital‑side leaders and deal teams:
Our work moves from internal clarity to external credibility. CLARITYENGINE™ and PROMPTFORCE™ structure how we diagnose, discover, translate, and communicate readiness so that what is presented to buyers, boards, and investors matches how the business actually operates.
DK KONCEPTS applies CLARITYENGINE™ to map where value is strong, hidden, or at risk across Identity, Leadership, and Culture. We surface how the organization truly operates today—processes, dependencies, workarounds, exposures, and strengths—moving from assumptions and anecdotes to observable, documented reality.
Using PROMPTFORCE™, DK KONCEPTS structures questioning to turn assumptions into decision‑ready operational clarity. We identify patterns, gaps, and leverage points, seeing where readiness is strong or fragile before approaching the market or inviting capital into the conversation.
Together, we organize findings into a clear internal value architecture—what must be fixed and what must be highlighted before the close. Operational realities are translated into investor‑grade narratives, readiness maps, and governance documents that boards and deal teams can use.
DOUGLAS USA converts architecture into external credibility—positioning, messaging, and buyer‑investor decks—and supports real conversations with buyers, banks, and investment committees. Decisions are supported with clear, documented evidence instead of urgency, pressure, or wishful thinking.
Different roles see risk and opportunity from different angles. PRDD is built to serve all of them in one coherent view of readiness.
Clarify what you really have before you go to market or invite capital into the business.
Gain a structured view of operational reality, not just reported numbers or pitch‑ready narratives.
Strengthen oversight with a readiness lens on strategy, governance, and risk.
Enhance the quality of pre‑deal and post‑deal assessment across portfolios.
Work with sellers whose internal realities have been reconciled with the story going to market.
PRDD is designed as a working asset for diligence and planning—frameworks, checklists, prompts, and examples that belong inside real deals, boardrooms, and strategy reviews, not on a shelf.
The PRDD Briefing Document is a concise, two‑page summary for boards, investment committees, owners, and deal teams who need a fast, reliable overview of readiness.
The PRDD book is a practical guide to readiness in high‑stakes environments, built from work with leaders, boards, and investors who needed more than theory.
The people behind PRDD bring decades of operational, governance, and investor‑facing experience. Each bio reflects a commitment to clarity, accountability, and readiness in high‑stakes environments.
Doug Kilarski is a veteran corporate strategist and senior operational analyst with over 30 years of experience engineering organizations for high‑stakes scrutiny. As the architect behind the Proactive Reverse Due‑Diligence™ (PRDD) framework, Doug brings a forensic, reputation‑driven lens to organizational assessment, exposing the operational truths that determine valuation, credibility, and deal viability.
While traditional consultants chase theoretical upside, Doug disassembles the operational, financial, and cultural mechanics of a business to reveal the gaps that erode trust and the strengths that elevate reputational value. He serves as the primary interpreter between a seller’s narrative and a buyer’s risk model, ensuring that what a company claims and what a company is are fully aligned.
Core Focus: Reputational Value, Operational Fidelity, Risk Quantification, Financial Leverage
30+ Years Exp · Senior Analyst, Author, Editor
Marion Lott‑Kilarski is a creative auteur with over 30 years of shaping how organizations express themselves at the intersection of art, culture, and commerce. She directs the firm’s creative strategy, ensuring that the analytical precision of the PRDD process is transformed into authored narratives that are visually coherent, culturally resonant, and investor‑ready.
Grounded in luxury‑brand discipline, Marion understands that organizations rarely fail diligence because of missing data—they fail because their cultural identity and business story are misaligned. She brings a curator’s eye to corporate truth, designing identity systems that reveal not just what a company does, but who it is and why it matters, ensuring PRDD outputs move beyond compliance into persuasion.
Core Focus: Creative Strategy, Cultural Identity Vision, World‑Class Narrative Design
30+ Years Exp · The Creator
PRDD was built for people who carry the weight of decisions that cannot be undone easily—owners, leaders, board members, investment bankers, and investors whose choices shape livelihoods, reputations, and futures. Many deals and transitions struggle not because the idea is wrong, but because the realities inside the organization are not surfaced early enough, honestly enough, or in a form that decision‑makers can act on.
PRDD is our response to that pattern. It does not promise certainty; it offers clarity. If PRDD helps you make even one better decision, protect even one stakeholder from an avoidable surprise, or strengthen one important transition, it has done its job.
A Readiness Briefing is the first step. In a focused session, we clarify where you are, what is at stake, and how PRDD can support the decisions ahead for you, your board, your deal team, or your investors.
Understand how buyers, bankers, and boards will see your business before they arrive. Identify the gaps and strengths that will shape valuation, timing, and negotiating leverage.
Use PRDD to sharpen due diligence, improve decision quality, and align your investment thesis with what the organization can actually sustain post‑close or post‑decision.
DOUGLAS USA LLC and DK KONCEPTS work with a limited number of engagements each year to preserve focus and confidentiality.