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The sale-readiness checklist for AI-built apps
A checklist for founders of AI-built apps who may sell one day: what buyers check, and the evidence to start keeping now.
A checklist of what buyers look at when they diligence a small AI app, from revenue and customers through code, security, operations, legal structure and the sale itself. Every item tells you what to do, why a buyer cares, and the exact evidence to have ready, and links to the AXIS Launch page or community thread it comes from.
Much of that evidence can only be built as time passes. A reconciled payment record, a separate business account and an honest log of your hours cost little to keep from today and are painful to reconstruct on a buyer's deadline. The same records help with your own bookkeeping even if you never sell.
Read it once, then work through it over time. The exit-ready thread in the AXIS Launch community spreads this kind of work across 12 months, starting with the habits that gain value the longer they run, and the diligence checklist thread describes a one-week version for very small apps. Nothing here is legal, tax or investment advice; where an item touches those areas, it points you to a lawyer or an accountant.
What is in it
- Revenue you can prove, 6 items. A buyer's first question is less about how large your revenue is and more about whether it actually reached your bank. Settle that and every later conversation gets shorter.
- Customers and concentration, 7 items. Buyers care about who pays you, how long they stay, and how much of the business rests on a single customer or channel. These items turn those questions into charts and documents you can hand over.
- The code and the stack, 6 items. Many apps listed on AXIS Launch are largely AI-written, and buyers have learned what to ask about that. Have written answers ready before the technical questions arrive.
- Security and user data, 6 items. AXIS Launch reviews whether a submitted app is real and honestly described; it does not security-audit it, and buyers eventually check everything. These items cover the risks that are quickest to spot and hardest to explain away.
- Operations a buyer can take over, 6 items. A buyer is paying for a business they can run without you. Show how the work gets done, how long it takes, and that nothing hangs on your personal accounts.
- Legal and structure, 6 items. None of this is legal or tax advice. It is the groundwork that makes the time you spend with a lawyer and an accountant shorter and cheaper.
- Choosing how to sell, 7 items. How you sell shapes how long it takes and who you meet. At the time of writing, the AXIS Launch acquire page says there are no live auctions yet and that bidder applications are handled manually, so read the auction details below as the published plan.