Find out what’s really going on
before you risk $500,000.
Paste the listing. Upload whatever financials you have. DealLens returns the due-diligence report a $15,000 accountant would write — the normalized earnings, the honest valuation, and every red flag with the question that resolves it.
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The listing is an advertisement. Not a financial statement.
Every marketplace says the same thing in the fine print: the figures are supplied by the seller and are not independently verified. Buyers read them as facts anyway — and then discover the gap after the deposit is non-refundable.
Almost none come with verified financials attached.
You are competing with buyers who look at the same ad and see the same headline number.
Which is why almost nobody commissions one on a $400,000 main-street deal.
What a report actually finds
Not generic advice. Specific findings, quantified in dollars, each with the question that resolves it.
Documented SDE falls $65.8K short of the listing
The ad advertises $240,000 of cash flow. The add-backs traceable to a document support about $174,000 — the difference is a "consulting fee" and a family salary that both recur every year.
Asking price sits 18% above blended fair value
Five valuation methods, weighted, put fair value near $382,000 with a range of $282,000 to $470,000. The asking price is roughly $67,000 above the midpoint — a premium the seller has to justify with evidence rather than with the location.
Advertised cash flow was revised upward mid-listing
An archived version of this listing from March showed $198,000. The current version shows $240,000. Nothing in the materials explains a 21% improvement on a business already for sale.
Payroll is implausibly low for the revenue
Payroll runs 8.1% of revenue against 12–17% typical for this category. That usually means the owner is working unpaid hours that a buyer will have to pay someone to replace.
Six passes over one deal
This is not a chatbot reading a PDF. It is a pipeline where the arithmetic is deterministic and the model’s job is judgement.
Read everything
The listing, plus every P&L, tax return, lease, CIM, payroll register, bank statement and equipment list you can get your hands on.
Rebuild the numbers
Revenue, gross profit, EBITDA, SDE, add-back by add-back. Every figure is computed, not estimated by a language model.
Recover the listing history
Archived versions of the same ad are pulled and compared. Quiet price cuts and restated cash-flow figures surface immediately.
Investigate the outside world
Competitors, traffic counts, demographics, entity registrations, licences, inspections, liens and property records.
Price it honestly
Five valuation methods, including the ceiling a lender will actually finance — usually the most useful number in the report.
Tell you what to do
A ranked red-flag register with dollar impact, an offer range, negotiating leverage and the exact questions to send the broker.
Why this beats asking a chatbot
A general assistant will read your PDF and tell you what it says. It will also do the arithmetic in its head, believe the seller’s add-backs, and have no idea what the listing looked like six months ago.
- The maths is code, not inference
SDE, EBITDA, DSCR, break-even, working capital and every multiple are computed in a deterministic engine. The model interprets numbers it cannot change.
- It remembers what the listing used to say
Archived versions are recovered and diffed. A cash-flow figure that quietly grew is one of the most useful things you can walk into a negotiation holding.
- Claims are tiered, never blurred
Documented, seller claim, or hypothesis. Nothing the seller asserts is allowed to drift into being described as a fact.
- It knows what a lender will finance
The debt-capacity ceiling is often well below the asking price — and it is the hardest number in the room to argue with.
Inside every report
Twenty sections, structured the way an investment committee expects to read them.
Built for the person writing the cheque
First-time buyers
You are about to make the largest purchase of your life from someone who has done this before and you have not. This levels that.
Learn moreSearchers & investors
Screen ten listings for the cost of one accountant meeting, then go deep only on the ones that survive.
Learn moreBrokers & advisors
Pre-qualify what you take to market, and hand buyers a document that shortens diligence instead of prolonging it.
Learn moreOne report costs less than one bad afternoon with a lawyer.
And considerably less than discovering the add-backs were fiction after the deposit went non-refundable.