The Acquirer: Every Target, Start to Signature.

One target list, four stages — source, screen, model, underwrite. Each stage feeds the next, so a company gets typed once and carries all the way through to the LOI. Then compare every target on the list side by side, because the real decision is which of these twelve, not scoring one in isolation. All offline, all on this page.

Your Deal Box

Standing criteria — the same for every target on the roster. Everything below this card is per target.

target industry target geography

acquisition budget ceiling ($) min business age (years) target sde multiple

what makes you the ideal acquirer

① Source — the target's operating facts

entered once, carried everywhere

The numbers you pull off the business itself. Every later stage reads from here.

business name asking price ($)

annual revenue ($) sde / owner cash flow ($) years established

owner involvement reason for sale

google rating (0–5) review count lease / asset notes

② Screen — pre-LOI quick-look

price + culture + budget fit

Valuation and budget fit compute from Stage ① and your deal box. Add the soft signals here — they are the ones that kill an integration.

target url est. monthly web traffic

glassdoor rating (0–5) customer nps (est. −100 to 100)

red / green flags observed in research

Leave Glassdoor and NPS blank if you have no read yet — the cultural axes are dropped from the score rather than counted as zero.

③ Model — capital allocation on the computed offer

not the asking price

The deal costs more than the purchase price. Model what it actually takes to own and integrate this business, against what it throws off.

hold horizon (months) integration labor hours fully-loaded $/hour

added annual overhead ($) annual capital reserve ($) cost of NOT buying — annual ($)

integration overrun buffer (%) discount rate (annual %) exit multiple at horizon execution probability (0–1)

You still own the business at the end of the horizon. Leave the exit multiple blank and it assumes you sell at the same multiple you bought at — no multiple expansion, which is the honest default.

④ Underwrite — the real property, if the deal carries any

optional stage

Most operating businesses come with a building — bought with it, or offered separately by the same owner. Underwrite it as its own deal.

does this deal carry property? property address

property type property price / allocation ($) rehab / deferred repair ($) arv — after repair value ($)

closing costs ($) monthly rent — market or actual ($) annual taxes ($) annual insurance ($)

monthly hoa / utilities ($) vacancy % (typical 5–8) maintenance % of rent mgmt fee % (0 = self-manage)

down payment % mortgage rate % mortgage term (years) property owner situation

Owner-occupied? Use the market rent the operating business would otherwise pay — that is the rent the building actually earns.

Every number is computed here, in this file. Nothing is sent anywhere.

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Set your deal box, add a target, and click Run Pipeline.

The Acquirer: Every Target, Start to Signature.

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