Lower middle-market acquisitions
Diligence infrastructure for buying a business
BuyScope AI turns a folder of seller financials into normalized EBITDA, defensible valuation ranges, a quantified risk register, and an investor-ready diligence report — built for entrepreneurs, searchers, investors, lenders, and advisors.
Decision support only. BuyScope AI does not provide legal, tax, accounting, investment, or financial advice.
Ridgeline Mechanical Services
HVAC & mechanical contracting
74
Deal Score
- Purchase price
- $8.2M
- Revenue
- $14.2M
- Reported EBITDA
- $1.95M
- Normalized EBITDA
- $2.31M
- Purchase multiple
- 3.5x
- DSCR
- 1.68x
Illustrative sample deal shown in every new workspace.
- Target deal size
- $500K–$20M
- Workspace sections per deal
- 12
- Weighted score categories
- 7
- Documents leaving private storage
- 0
Capabilities
Everything an acquisition file needs, in one workspace
Purpose-built for deals too small for a full quality-of-earnings engagement and too large to underwrite in a spreadsheet.
EBITDA normalization
Track every add-back from owner compensation to related-party rent with seller vs. buyer-accepted amounts, supporting documents, and a full bridge to normalized earnings.
Financial analysis
Annual and monthly statements with margin, seasonality, and year-over-year trends — plus variance flags when tax returns, P&Ls, and bank statements do not reconcile.
Deal Score, 0–100
A weighted score across financial performance, earnings quality, concentration, recurring revenue, operational dependence, legal risk, and structure. Assumptions stay visible and editable.
Valuation scenarios
Low, base, and high cases across EBITDA multiple, revenue multiple, DCF, and comparables — with equity required, debt service, DSCR, and cash-on-cash return.
Risk register & seller questions
Categorized risks with severity, likelihood, evidence, owner, and status, wired to a working diligence question list you can send, answer, and resolve.
Investor-ready report
Executive summary, transaction overview, score, normalization, valuation, risks, structure, and recommendation — exportable for lenders and investors.
Process
From data room to decision in four steps
01
Create the deal
Company profile, transaction terms, and financing assumptions captured in a guided four-step intake.
02
Load the data room
Upload CIMs, P&Ls, balance sheets, tax returns, bank statements, payroll, contracts, and debt schedules into private storage.
03
Run the analysis
Suggested add-backs, risks, and seller questions are generated, and the Deal Score is recomputed with a visible breakdown.
04
Decide and document
Tune valuation scenarios, agree LOI terms, and export a diligence report your lender and partners can read.
Controls
Built for sensitive seller financials
Deal data is scoped to your organization and enforced at the database layer, not just in the interface.
Private document storage
Uploads live in a private bucket and are retrieved through short-lived signed links only for authorized members.
Organization-scoped access
Row-level security ties every deal, adjustment, risk, and document to your organization. Public sharing is disabled.
Role-based deal teams
Invite analysts, advisors, investors, and read-only reviewers, assign diligence tasks, and keep an activity audit trail.
Underwrite your next acquisition with a defensible file
Create an account and start with three fully worked sample deals.