Assess whether related-party sales should be backed out of valuation (6b79c5)

SITUATION Buy-side QoE lead received earnout metric definitions that invite dispute after a customer who just sent a non-renewal in a PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on. Proceed or Reprice must follow from that extract if the file can settle whether related-party sales should be backed out of valuation.

DECISION Buy-side QoE lead in a PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on must choose Proceed / Reprice / Walk / Hold using earnout metric definitions that invite dispute after a customer who just sent a non-renewal.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. A customer who just sent a non-renewal is noise around an already-controlled Earnings and Revenue Quality process in a PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on, given earnout metric definitions that invite dispute. 2. A customer who just sent a non-renewal is the event in earnout metric definitions that invite dispute that forces Proceed for buy-side QoE lead under M&A Due Diligence. 3. Earnout metric definitions that invite dispute shows a one-file miss after a customer who just sent a non-renewal, not a Earnings and Revenue Quality program failure. 4. Earnout metric definitions that invite dispute cannot decide related-party sales should be yet after a customer who just sent a non-renewal; hold is the only M&A Due Diligence close a PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on can defend.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Map reps, earnout mechanics, and integration risk a PE platform evaluating a founder-led SaaS add-on would inherit. 2. Tie quality-of-earnings, working-capital, and contingent items in earnout metric definitions that invite dispute to related-party sales should be. 3. Name the document buy-side QoE lead still needs before signing. 4. For this M&A Due Diligence Earnings and Revenue Quality file, read earnout metric definitions that invite dispute against a customer who just sent a non-renewal and write the one fact that would move related-party sales should be for buy-side QoE lead.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Proceed / Reprice / Walk / Hold on this M&A Due Diligence / Earnings and Revenue Quality packet (earnout metric definitions that invite dispute after a customer who just sent a non-renewal). The follow-on Earnings and Revenue Quality action is what buy-side QoE lead does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line M&A Due Diligence option on related-party sales should be, then the evidence in earnout metric definitions that invite dispute, then the action for buy-side QoE lead - Hypothesis scorecard against earnout metric definitions that invite dispute: supported / rejected / untestable - Regulatory or exam hook Earnings and Revenue Quality would cite - Earnings and Revenue Quality finding in earnout metric definitions that invite dispute that a second reviewer can re-perform