Free tools for acquisition entrepreneurs
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Business Broker Directory
The only SMB broker directory ranked by actual deal activity.
Hundreds of US small-business brokers, ranked by listings posted in the last 90 days — not by marketing spend or membership tier. Filter by state and industry. Data refreshed daily from each broker’s own website and the major marketplaces.
SBA Lender Directory
Find the right SBA 7(a) lender for your acquisition.
~450 active SBA 7(a) lenders from the public FOIA dataset. Every metric a searcher cares about is its own sortable column — speed to fund, secondary-market resale share, M&A focus, industry/geo concentration, charge-off rate. Filter by state, industry, loan size.
Weekly Prospect
The best SMB deals of the week — delivered Sunday morning.
Curated listings from brokers and marketplaces across the country, filtered for searcher-relevant deals ($500K–$30M, real SDE, real brokers). One email per week, no spam, unsubscribe any time. Free.
Calculators
Run the deal math before you make an offer. Every input is overridable, and nothing is saved unless you create an account.
SBA Loan Calculator
Model an SBA 7(a) deal in under a minute.
Enter purchase price, down payment, interest rate, and term. Get monthly payment, total interest, debt service coverage, and a full amortization schedule. Defaults to typical SBA structures (10-year term, ~9.75% as of June 2026) but every input is overridable.
DSCR Calculator
See if a deal's cash flow covers its debt against the 1.25x SBA floor.
Enter SDE, your SBA loan, and an optional seller note to get the debt service coverage ratio, total annual debt service, and a pass/fail status badge. Seller notes on standby are counted, just like a lender does.
SDE Calculator
Find a small business's true owner earnings before you make an offer.
Sum net income plus owner comp, interest, depreciation, amortization, taxes, and one-time addbacks to normalize SDE, then sanity-check it against an SBA loan’s DSCR.
Business Valuation Calculator
Estimate what an SMB is worth from its SDE or EBITDA and industry multiple.
Enter earnings, pick an industry, and get a low/mid/high valuation range from typical SMB market multiples. Directional, not an appraisal.
Max Purchase Price Calculator
Solve for the highest price you can pay and still clear your DSCR gate.
Enter SDE, a target DSCR, and your financing structure to get your price ceiling, implied multiple, and the SBA/seller-note/down-payment breakdown. Closed-form, no guessing.
Want all of these, plus the rest of the platform?
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