Generic AI Summary ≠ a Signal
It reads the document. It doesn’t know you. We score it against your buy box, with a memory that carries into every deal after this one.
- Left alone, it summarizes what the CIM says, in the CIM’s own framing.
- Any consistency has to be your rubric, written and maintained by you, every time.
- No audit trail, no disclosure log, nothing to hand a broker if it is ever questioned.
- Your notes pile up in someone else’s chat history, unmanaged and unscrubbed.
- Same eight metrics, same breakpoints, every deal, without you maintaining anything.
- Scored by your buyer lens and a Buyer Fit multiplier, the same way every time.
- What you decide on one deal carries forward and shapes every deal after it.
- Zero Data Retention, with upload authority logged per deal.
Soon, you will be able to export a financial model and cross-reference the deal against 1,455 hours of SMB acquisition podcasts.
Get your Signal Report in 3 easy steps
- 01
Upload the deal
The CIM or exec summary, P&Ls, tax returns, equipment lists, or type the financials in. You confirm you are allowed to share it, and we keep a timestamped record.
- 02
See your Signal Report
A 0–100 score and letter grade from eight metrics, with the source page behind every risk flag.
- 03
Explore the deal
Edit the price, rate, or revenue and watch the score move. See what risks were flagged, and decide whether to move forward or not.
Who it’s for
Searchers & first-time buyers
Underwrite like you have an analyst on staff.
Independent sponsors
Give lenders and LPs a number with the math to back it up.
Private equity
Screen add-ons as fast as they hit your pipeline.
Family offices & small funds
Underwrite lower-middle-market deals without the spreadsheet marathon.
Corporate development
Size up a competitor or an adjacent business in minutes.
Buy-side advisors
Underwrite for every client the same way, every time.
The type of market data Main Street never had.
The real questions buyers actually ask:
- “What do landscaping companies actually pay for fertilizer?”
- “How many trucks does a $2M HVAC company run, and how old are they?”
- “What are other services companies my size spending on professional services?”
Anonymized and aggregate, from real deal flow. Never your documents, never identifiable.
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What we are building next
The harness keeps getting sharper. Nothing here changes how your documents are handled.
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ETA Knowledge
1,705 episodes of the biggest search and acquisition podcasts, indexed. The analysis reflects how experienced operators actually argue about these deals, not what a general model guessed about small business.
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Anti-Error
Every extracted figure is traced back to the page it came from and scored by our eval models for hallucination. Anything that cannot be verified is marked “Not Evaluated,” not misquoting a number we aren’t confident in.
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Export Model
Leave with a working financial model, not just a score. Sources and uses, debt schedule, and scenarios, exported ready to take to a lender or hand to your accountant.
Questions buyers ask first
Worth knowing before you hand anyone a confidential deal package.
For the full detail on data handling, sub-processors, and the NDA addendum, see Trust & Compliance. Anything else, email trust@thebuysignal.com.
The next deal in your inbox deserves a real answer.
NDA-compliant by default. No setup, no card to start.