How the number is built.

If the number here disagrees with a number somewhere else, you should be able to see why. Every output names its sources, its confidence band, and its vintage. Nothing about the model is a secret.

The three steps

A base multiple, by revenue band. Drawn from published transaction research rather than from any single deal. Larger books clear higher multiples, and the bands reflect that — a $3–6M business and a $10–25M business are not priced on the same curve.

Driver adjustments for the things buyers actually reprice. Retention, client concentration, margin quality, and owner dependence. These are not weighted by opinion; they are the four things that come up in diligence on nearly every deal, and each one moves the multiple in a direction a buyer can defend.

A waterfall from enterprise value to cash at close. Debt and working capital, rollover equity, escrow and holdback, fees and tax. This is the step most tools skip, and it is the difference between the number brokers quote and the number that reaches your account.

What every output carries

A confidence band rather than a point. The market-state vintage the base curve was drawn from. The methodology version. And a plain statement of which inputs were verified against a system and which were self-reported — because those two things deserve different levels of trust, and a tool that blends them silently is hiding the part that matters.

Where the numbers come from

Public transaction research and published industry profitability benchmarks — including Aventis Advisors, M&A Signal, and the Service Leadership Index. Sources are cited on every output, so any figure can be traced back to what it rests on.

What it is not

It is not a quality of earnings, and it is not financial, investment, tax, or legal advice. It is directionally honest about what it can and cannot know, and it says so when a value is not computable rather than estimating one. Before acting on anything here, talk to your CPA, attorney, or M&A advisor.