Profit starts with the purchase price.
Deal Cues helps business buyers turn listings, CIMs, and seller claims into a clear buyer-safe view of the deal — value, lender support, cash to close, evidence gaps, and negotiation next steps.
Your first verified deal includes one free Full Report — Stages 1, 2, and 3 — before you pay for another deal.
Built for buyers who need a defensible first read before spending time with brokers, lenders, and advisors.
- Recurring revenue 72% · service contracts validated to bank deposits.
- $48K owner travel add-back rejected — no business purpose documentation.
- Concentration risk: top customer 31% — hold-back structure recommended.
Offer at $1.58M with seller note structure; defensibility score 78/100.
Built for acquisition entrepreneurs, searchers, operators, and advisors evaluating small business acquisitions
A clearer way to evaluate a small business acquisition.
Most listings show the opportunity. Deal Cues helps you understand the support behind it. Import a listing, paste seller details, or upload a CIM. Deal Cues organizes the numbers into a buyer-first underwriting view so you can see what the business supports, what still needs proof, and what to do next.
Buyer-safe value
See a conservative value range based on normalized earnings, risk, confidence, and lender support — not just the asking price.
Evidence-backed underwriting
Organize seller claims, add-backs, and supporting documents into a structured view you can review with clearer assumptions.
Lender-aware view
Understand DSCR, cash to close, debt support, and financing pressure before you spend weeks on a deal that may not pencil.
Negotiation-ready outputs
Turn evidence gaps, add-back questions, and supportability issues into clear seller questions and offer strategy.
From first look to offer strategy.
Move forward with clearer assumptions at every stage of the deal.
Stage 1 — Initial Screening
Get a fast buyer-safe read: value range, DSCR, cash to close, confidence, red flags, and the biggest questions to answer next.
Stage 2 — Underwriting Review
Review documents, add-backs, seller answers, evidence gaps, normalized earnings, and lender support in one structured workspace.
Stage 3 — Offer Strategy
Translate the underwriting into opening offer, target settlement, walk-away point, seller scripts, terms, and LOI readiness.
Included with Full Report
Clear logic. No black box.
Every output is tied to visible assumptions. Review the earnings bridge, DSCR inputs, valuation constraints, evidence gaps, and confidence drivers before relying on the result.
See where support is concentrated over time
Understand how concentration and supporting evidence show up before you rely on the conclusion.
- Reported SDE$362K
- Add-backs challenged$48K rejected
- Working-capital normalizer−$11K
- Underwritten OCF$284K
Built for buyers who want to move carefully, not slowly.
Deal Cues does not replace your lender, CPA, attorney, or advisor. It helps you show up prepared — with organized numbers, clear assumptions, and a better list of questions.
Review the methodologyBuilt for searchers, operators, and buyer-side advisors.
"Deal Cues helped me screen several listings quickly and focus my time on the one that held up under a buyer-safe view."
"The lender-facing output made it much easier to explain the deal, the assumptions, and the questions we still needed answered."
"I liked being able to separate seller adjustments from what the business could actually support and share that view with my advisor."
Start small. Go deeper when the deal earns it.
Screen a deal first. If it still looks worth pursuing, move into deeper underwriting and offer strategy.
Screening
Quick buyer-safe read.
- Buyer-safe value
- Suggested offer range
- DSCR and lender support
- Cash to close
Full Report
Evidence, add-backs, DSCR, and seller questions.
- Everything in Screening
- Normalized earnings bridge
- Add-back review
- Evidence gaps
- Seller question list
Pro
For active buyers and advisors.
- 50 Screenings / month
- 5 Full Reports / month
- Negotiation posture
- Offer strategy
- Priority support
Everything you need to get started.
No. Deal Cues produces buyer-side estimates and underwriting support — not certified appraisals, USPAP-compliant reports, or appraiser-signed valuations. Review outputs with qualified advisors.
Buyer-Safe Value range, DSCR at ask and offer, cash to close estimate, top add-back challenges, concentration flags, and a 1-page lender brief preview.
Extraction is automated and may miss fields. You can review and correct all extracted values before the screening runs. Results depend on the data supplied.
Yes. Report exports are designed to be shareable with lenders, brokers, and advisors as a buyer-prepared underwriting summary — not as a certified appraisal or official lender document.
Deal Cues provides buyer-side estimates and underwriting support for informational purposes only. Valuations are estimates — not certified appraisals, legal advice, tax advice, investment advice, or lender approval. Review all outputs with qualified advisors (attorney, CPA, lender, broker) before making acquisition decisions. Terms · Privacy · Refund Policy
Know what the business supports before you make the offer.
It takes about 30 seconds to start. Your first verified deal gets one free Full Report with Buyer-Safe Value, lender support, evidence gaps, and offer strategy.