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Using Buyer preparation

How to start, keep, reopen, and use your Buyer preparation work.

Prepare a personal brief before searching for a business.

Open Buyer preparation

Start with the work in front of you

  1. Open Your worksheet and describe the role you want, your experience, available time, and location.
  2. Write your boundaries and unanswered questions. Add a useful first step and review point.
  3. Use Download editable Buyer Brief (.json) above the worksheet, even if unfinished. Make your brief for a reading copy.

Keep it and pick it up again

The JSON file keeps all eight answers. Reopen it as a worksheet, revise what has changed, and make a fresh result.

  1. Check your browser’s Downloads for the actual file. Keep the .json extension; a meaningful name and date can help you recognize the copy.
  2. Choose Open saved work below, select that file, and check the tool and summary shown.
  3. Continue in the tool. If there is already work open there, review the replacement prompt. Cancel to keep editing or download the current work before replacing it.
Check and reopen a file

What to keep in view

This is your preparation, not an assessment of a business for sale. Keep questions that need independent evidence or specialist advice visible.

If it does not look right

If the file will not open, leave the original unchanged and read the error. A reading copy cannot substitute for the editable JSON. If you reopened an older copy, look for a later download; do not overwrite the current work while checking.

Find a safe next step

Where this can lead

These tools may help with the next task. A link alone does not transfer your information.

See the actual file connections

Keep your open draft?

Continuing will discard your unsaved changes. You can return to the draft and save or download it first.