Acquisition Desk1
Bring in the business
Paste a listing, use the Acquisition Desk Clipper, or enter the deal manually.
For the business you’re evaluating now
Is this business actually worth pursuing?
Analyze the asking price, SDE, SBA debt service, cash required, buyer take-home, and deal risks before you spend hours chasing the opportunity.
Financial Analysis on up to 2 lifetime deals · No credit card required
Illustrative sample deal
Summit Property Services
Restoration services · Northern California
Asking price
$2.4M
SDE
$620K
Asking multiple
3.87×
Modeled DSCR
2.12×
Modeled buyer take-home
$327K
Cash required
$315K
Fictional example for product demonstration only. Financing terms are modeled assumptions and require lender confirmation.
Know the numbers that actually matter.
One fictional sample deal. Your results depend on the information and assumptions you enter.
Modeled buyer take-home
$327K
Illustrative sample
Modeled DSCR
2.12×
Illustrative sample
Cash required
$315K
Illustrative sample
Asking multiple
3.87×
Illustrative sample
Acquisition Desk doesn’t just calculate a valuation multiple. It models whether the acquisition could work for you—based on your assumptions, financing scenario, and buyer criteria.
From listing to a clearer decision, faster
Start with the opportunity in front of you. Keep your next questions attached to the same deal.
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Understand the economics
Model SBA debt service, DSCR, buyer take-home, cash required, and Buy Box Fit.
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Know what to investigate
Review risks, missing information, broker questions, and assumptions to verify.
More than a business valuation calculator
A multiple is only one part of the decision.
A multiple can tell you what the seller is asking. It doesn’t tell you whether the debt works, what you may take home, how much cash you’ll have left, whether the deal fits your goals, or what still needs to be verified.
Keep financial assumptions, risks, documents, questions, deal updates, and next steps connected to the same acquisition opportunity.
One deal workspace
Start with the listing. Keep going as the real information arrives.
- 01Listing
- 02Screening
- 03Broker
- 04LOI
- 05Diligence
- 06Lender
- 07Close
Your deal workspace can evolve from the original listing to broker updates, CIMs, financial statements, diligence findings, and financing assumptions.
Attach deal documents, choose Analyze PDF, review page-cited findings, and approve any supported changes. Financial Analysis recalculates; downstream outputs are marked for review rather than silently regenerated.
Keep the decision and the work behind it together.
Financial Analysis
See debt service, DSCR, buyer take-home, cash required, and retained cash.
Buy Box Fit
See how the deal lines up with the acquisition criteria you said matter.
Risk Review
Surface missing information, assumptions, and issues worth investigating.
Deal Copilot
Ask questions with the saved context of the deal available.
Deal Updates
Keep new information and diligence findings tied to the same opportunity.
Acquisition Memo
Create a structured deal summary to review with your advisers and lenders.
Your deal data stays tied to your private workspace.
Deal Update attachments use authenticated access controls. Uploading or viewing a PDF does not itself trigger AI processing. Text extracted from PDFs is sent for AI processing only when you choose Analyze PDF. Remove unnecessary highly sensitive information before uploading.
Built for buyers, not Wall Street.
Acquisition Desk is built for people evaluating small-business acquisitions where SDE, owner benefit, SBA financing, debt service, and personal take-home matter.
Use it to screen opportunities quickly and keep your analysis organized as a deal gets serious—whether you’re buying for the first time, self-funding a search, using SBA financing, or moving from a professional career into ownership.
Have a business you’re considering?
Put the actual deal through Acquisition Desk before you spend more time pursuing it.
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Financial Analysis on up to 2 lifetime deals · No credit card required
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