Your name on the report.
Our engine under it.
AcquisitionPad rebuilds a seller's earnings from the actual tax returns, grades every add-back against its evidence, shows the comparable sales, and hands you a finished opinion of value under your firm's brand in 72 hours from complete documents.
No credential required. Same opinion-of-value footing you work under today, built to a standard most shops cannot match by hand.
| Line | Evidence | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Net income, 2025 return | RETURN | $212,400 |
| Owner salary and payroll taxes | RETURN | +$118,900 |
| Depreciation and interest | RETURN | +$58,400 |
| Owner benefits and insurance | RETURN | +$30,800 |
| One-time legal and moving costs | INVOICES | +$31,200 |
| Owner vehicle, personal use portion | PARTIAL | +$9,600 |
| Discretionary travel, unsupported | REMOVED | $0 |
| Market rent adjustment, related party | LEASE | −$24,000 |
| Verified SDE | $437,300 |
The problem it replaces
You are doing $1,800 of free work
before you know if the listing pays.
That is the math on a hand-built valuation today: your hours, a spreadsheet recast, documents chased by phone, and a price a buyer's accountant picks apart in diligence. AcquisitionPad takes the whole job off your desk.
The way it works now
Per valuation, most of it given away free to win the listing. Outsourcing does not fix it either.
- ✕ Recast rebuilt by hand in a spreadsheet, line by line, from three years of returns
- ✕ One to three weeks of turnaround, and the delay is chasing documents, not math
- ✕ Outsourced reports at $499 to $5,000 still make you collect the docs and do the recast
- ✕ A multiple with no visible source, so the first hard question in diligence has no answer
The way it works here
From the moment the file is complete. The clock starts itself, and you can watch it run.
- ✓ Secure intake collects and chases the documents for you, with a completeness meter both sides can see
- ✓ Every add-back tied to the page of the return it came from, graded, with unsupported items removed and shown as removed
- ✓ Comparable sales shown in the report, thin data flagged in plain sight instead of hidden
- ✓ Asking price plus a financing check, so the number survives first contact with a lender
White label, for real
Try the report your seller would see.
Change the firm name and color. That is exactly what happens to every report on your plan: your brand on the cover, your name on the opinion, AcquisitionPad nowhere the client looks.
Nothing enters SDE without paperwork. Fully documented items count in full. Partly supported items count only for what is proven. Unsupported items are removed, and the removal is printed in the report, so a buyer's accountant follows the build instead of fighting it.
| A · DOCUMENTED | Tied to the tax return, a lease, or bank records |
| B · PARTIAL | Counted only up to the amount the evidence supports |
| X · REMOVED | Claimed by the seller, no support, excluded from SDE |
Related-party rent corrected to market. A spouse working unpaid gets charged at real wages. Owner replacement cost is stated, and if it is unproven, the price prints as provisional at the same size as the number itself.
Closed sale, 14 months ago. Size and margin close to subject.
Closed sale, 9 months ago. Higher recurring share supports the top of the range.
Closed sale, 22 months ago. Older and smaller, weighted lowest.
Sample comparables for illustration. In a live report each comp carries its source, its closing date, and its weight in the range, and a thin comp set is labeled thin on the page, not buried.
The seller walks into the pricing conversation holding a document with your name on it that reads like it came from a valuation department. That is the meeting this report is built for.
Logo upload, firm colors, broker name and license line, and your contact block are set once at onboarding and applied to every report and the live tracking page after that.
Move the sliders. Watch how the engine thinks.
A simplified look at the pricing step: verified SDE, a multiple set by the comps and the business's risk profile, and a range instead of false precision. Points round to the nearest $1,000, the way a person would price it.
ILLUSTRATIVE MODEL · A LIVE REPORT RUNS THE FULL STANDARD
How it works
Three steps. Your part takes about ten minutes.
Open the engagement, send your seller one link, and get a branded report back. The chasing, the rebuild, and the write-up happen inside AcquisitionPad.
Open and send the link
Name the business, click send. Your seller gets a branded upload page with a plain checklist: three years of returns, year-to-date financials, the lease, and a short questionnaire.
The engine rebuilds the earnings
SDE is rebuilt line by line from the returns. Add-backs are graded, unsupported items come out, related-party items are corrected to market, and the comps set the range.
You deliver it as yours
The full report plus a one-page summary, under your brand, with a recommended asking price and the financing check. Seller produces a missing document later? The number updates, with the change shown.
Pricing
Priced against your time,
not against software.
One hand-built valuation costs you $300 to $1,800 of your own hours. One outsourced letter costs $499 and still leaves you the prep work. Every plan below costs less than a single one of either.
Starter
For the solo broker pricing a steady flow of listings
PER MONTH, BILLED MONTHLY · 3 VALUATIONS INCLUDED
- ✓ 3 valuations per month included
- ✓ Extra reports at $199 each
- ✓ Full report + 1-page summary, your brand
- ✓ Document collection and chasing included
- ✓ 72-hour turnaround
Practice
For the working broker or two-person office
PER MONTH, BILLED MONTHLY · 8 VALUATIONS INCLUDED
- ✓ 8 valuations per month included
- ✓ Extra reports at $175 each
- ✓ Everything in Starter
- ✓ Live branded tracking page for every engagement
- ✓ Revision runs when new documents land
- ✓ Priority queue, 48-hour target
Firm
For offices running several brokers off one standard
PER MONTH, BILLED MONTHLY · 20 VALUATIONS INCLUDED
- ✓ 20 valuations per month included
- ✓ Extra reports at $150 each
- ✓ Everything in Practice
- ✓ Seats for your whole office, one house standard
- ✓ Firm-level pipeline and volume reporting
Volumes line up with how shops actually work: a solo broker runs roughly 10 to 25 valuation workups a year, a small office 40 to 100. Certified, signed reports for SBA and lender files are a separate tier in development, priced per report.
Start with AcquisitionPad
Selected plan: Practice, $499/mo, billed monthly. Pick any plan above to change it.
Next step after reserving: a short onboarding call to set your logo, colors, and license line, then your first engagement link goes live the same day.
One company, two divisions
Valuations now.
The marketplace they feed, next.
Every valuation run through AcquisitionPad is a business priced off documents, not seller claims. That is the inventory a serious marketplace needs, and it is being built right now, one broker report at a time.
The engine brokers already pay for.
Subscriptions, white-label reports, and a growing dataset of real earnings and real asking prices by trade and town, built from tax returns at the moment of pricing.
Deals a buyer can actually underwrite.
Not deals nobody can see. Deals with verified numbers, a defensible price, and documents ready. Buyers get the live data feed: asking and paid multiples by trade and region, what is sitting, what is moving, and alerts when a business in their buy box gets priced.
Broker early members get first listing rights when the shelf opens.
Inside the buyer membership: the live pricing feed
SAMPLE CHART · ILLUSTRATIVE DATABuilt from valuations as they are run, not from listing forms or last year's survey. What multiples are being asked and paid, by trade and region, this month.
Built for other people's clients
A broker's license rides on your data handling. Ours is built like it.
Licensing a tool that touches client tax returns is a different bar than running one shop. These are in place before the first outside engagement, not promised for later.
Straight answers
What brokers ask first.
Is this a certified appraisal?
No, and it does not pretend to be. It is a broker opinion of value, the same class of document you produce today for pricing a listing, built to a tighter standard. Certified, signed reports for SBA files, tax, and court belong to credentialed appraisers. A signed tier, with a credentialed valuator reviewing and signing on top of the same workpapers, is in development as a per-report add-on.
Will my franchise or office let me use it?
Independent brokers and independent offices decide for themselves, and that is most of the market. Franchise agreements vary by brand on outside tools and client-facing branding, so franchise brokers should check theirs. Corporate arrangements for franchise systems are a separate conversation we handle at that level.
Where does the multiple come from?
From comparable closed sales, shown in the report with sources, dates, and weights, adjusted by a risk profile built from documented inputs only. Seller claims that are not documented do not move the price. Where the data behind a trade is thin, the report says so on the page.
Does AcquisitionPad ever contact my seller or use my listings?
No. Documents are collected under your brand at your direction. Your listings stay your listings, your commissions stay yours, and that protection is written into the agreement. If the marketplace opens a listing of yours, buyers route through you.
What do I actually have to do per valuation?
Open the engagement and send one link. The system collects and chases the documents, shows you a completeness meter, and starts the 72-hour clock when the file is genuinely complete. You deliver the finished report.
Stop giving the valuation away.
Start putting your name on a better one.
Plans start at $299 a month, less than the hours in a single hand-built report. First reports out in days, not a quarter.
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