Is there any appetite for affordable commercial due diligence services?

CDD generally should be done by searchers themselves, as they need to really understand the industry they're getting into. Having said that, reality is that during deal you are time constrained talking to multiple investors, lawyers, accountants, etc. On our last deal attempt we have used CDD help for time consuming part, i.e. our friend ex-Bain did interviews with employees, management and did shadow visits with sales reps - it was also much better from comms perspective as we didn't have to lie that we are "consultants" and few weeks later go as new CEOs (owners didn't tell employees about the deal).

The services of a big firm like yours should be too expensive for a searcher, and in my opinion the CDD is one of the searchers’ responsibilities