SpringBoard: the eight-strand diligence platform for education sector transactions.
Built on the DD-88 research engine and DEEP DIVE, SpringBoard turns a school or education group's public record and data room into a structured, sourced appraisal, in the time it used to take to book the first site visit.
An enormous amount of education sector data lives in the public domain.
We do a deep dive to seek it out, organise it, analyse it and present snapshot findings.
Comprehensive insights. Instantly.
Eight strands, the full shape of a data room
SpringBoard organises every appraisal around eight fixed strands. The order does not change between deals, so nothing gets skipped and nothing gets double-counted.
Due diligence, brought to life.
Dive in, model, compare.
The dashboard: every school under appraisal tracked as one pipeline, so you can run multiple deals at the same time and see the whole EBITDA target at a glance.
DD-88 eleven questions, asked of every strand
DD-88 is the prompt bank underneath SpringBoard: eleven deep research questions for each of the eight strands, eighty-eight in total, run against the target's data room and the public record.
Point it at a target
Name the school or group. SpringBoard locates it in the national schools register and pulls what is already on file.
DD-88 runs the eighty-eight
Eleven prompts per strand, run consistently, whether the answer is present, absent, or contradicted between sources.
Findings, sourced
Every observation, next step and caution carries the instrument and retrieval date it came from, ready to hand to your own DD workstream.
Example research chain
One answer leads to the next question. This is how a single Financial-strand observation moves through DD-88 towards a critical caution, each step sourced as it goes.
Public accounts submissions, latest filing, retrieved 12 Aug 2026.
Public accounts submissions show three consecutive years of revenue growth against a flat cost base.
Confirm freehold versus leasehold status directly with the land registry before modelling occupancy cost.
Ownership structure changed twice in the last eighteen months. Reason for the second change is not stated in the public record.
No evidence of current public liability cover could be located in the public record. Verify directly before proceeding.
One engine, five ways to use it
SpringBoard Lite is the pre-launch model, open now by invitation only. The rest of the platform is rolling out module by module, each one adding a further layer on top of the same DD-88 engine.
SpringBoard Lite01
Invitation onlyThe Deep Dive Research Engine on its own: desk-based appraisal against the public record, all eighty-eight prompts, no data room required to begin.
SpringBoard Drive02
Coming soonFeeds the engine an uploaded data room alongside the public record, so findings are checked against the target's own documents, not just what is filed.
SpringBoard Diligence03
Coming soonThe eight-strand value read, priced: valuation ranges, offer structuring and a findings-weighted view of what the record actually supports.
SpringBoard Pro04
Coming soonModelling and forecasting on top of the findings: fee benchmarking, enrolment projection and scenario work. Share your adjusted models directly with a Big Four firm for sign off, so you pay for the sign off, not the diligence underneath it.
SpringBoard Infinity05
Coming soonThe whole platform end to end, for teams running a continuous pipeline of targets rather than a single appraisal.
Modules are greyed, not hidden, until they ship. What SpringBoard finds this month is limited to Lite; the roadmap above is what it becomes.
The research power behind the engine
DD-88 is the structure: eight strands, eleven prompts each. DEEP DIVE is what runs through it, trained on the national institutional record for each context it covers: the schools register, filed company accounts, planning and licensing records, and inspection history for that market.
That specificity is deliberate. A general model guesses at how a market works. DEEP DIVE has read the record for each context it operates in, which is why SpringBoard's findings can be sourced rather than inferred. Every further national context gets the same treatment: its own read of its own institutional record, not a translation of another market's.
Tracking the fastest growing markets and serving private equity partners with up to date research methodologies to respond to the DD-88 prompt engine.
Beat the competition. Win the data race.
Private education is one of the fastest growing markets there is, and in a market moving that fast, the advantage goes to whoever reads the record first. Knowledge is the power in that race, and SpringBoard was built to put it in your hands before your competitors get there, appraising a school or education group before or alongside paid diligence, and it serves that workflow differently depending on where you sit.
Screen targets before you spend on advisers
- Run a desk-based appraisal on a target or a shortlist before committing to a full DD engagement.
- Hand your professional advisers a sourced starting point instead of a blank data room.
- Build vendor readiness packs for a sell-side process, strand by strand.
A structured second pass on financial DD
- Use the fixed eleven-prompt Financial strand as a consistent checklist across engagements and reviewers.
- Cross-check EBITDA quality and working capital claims against the filed record before fieldwork begins.
- Every figure carries its instrument and retrieval date, ready to sit in your own workpapers.
Market intelligence at platform speed
- Map enrolment, fees and ownership across a sector or a region without a manual register-by-register sweep.
- Triangulate findings across strands rather than relying on a single filed source.
- Every claim is traceable, so the output is usable in published research, not just internal notes.
Flip the power dynamic. Take the top seat.
- Be ahead of the buyers: dive into the same insights they will, before they have even made an offer.
- Know your own valuation range and the questions diligence will ask, well ahead of the first approach.
- Walk into M&A negotiations for your business holding the advantage, not waiting to react to someone else's findings.
Verify the record before you fund, license or approve
- Check ownership, enrolment and financial claims against the public record before a licensing or funding decision.
- Build a consistent evidence base across every application, using the same eleven prompts each time.
- Spot the outliers early: mismatched filings, undisclosed connections or funding gaps that warrant closer review.
SpringBoard Lite is the pre-launch model, open by invitation. Ask for a walkthrough on your own target.
Tell us the school, group or region you are looking at, and we will show you what DD-88 finds against the public record before you commit to a full engagement, or even get on a plane.
Currently available for Poland, Greece, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Spain and Portugal.