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AI buy-side underwriting · Restaurants, franchises & laundromats

Every listing. Underwritten by AI. Stamped before you sign.

DealStamp screens every restaurant, franchise, and laundromat listing against institutional underwriting rules — verified cash flow, real financing terms, lease runway, brand health — and stamps it PURSUE, INVESTIGATE, or PASS, with the reasons and the broker questions written for you.

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Cookie Franchise — 2 Units, Conejo Valley
SCREENING MEMO · RULESET v1.2 · SBA 7(a) PROFILE
Asking price$650,000
Revenue trend (2 yrs)−24%
SDE (seller estimate)$310,000
DSCR at SBA terms0.91x
R-1.1SDE below verified floor; seller estimate gets no benefit of the doubt.
R-1.4Two consecutive down years, cumulative −24%.
R-2.2Brand on Red watchlist: system-wide cohort deterioration.
R-2.6A bundle of two bad stores is not one good deal.
Screened in 40 seconds. Broker call not required.
Pass
The broker works for the seller. The AI works for you.
Most business brokers are dual agents paid on close. Every number in a CIM is a claim, not a fact. DealStamp is the buyer's machine: deterministic rules, every verdict traceable, no commission bias.
How it works

Listings go in. Verdicts come out.

STEP 1

Listings flow in

Marketplace alerts, broker blasts, and the open web — including the 200 brokerage sites nobody monitors. Every listing normalized into one underwriting schema.

STEP 2

The AI parses. The rules decide.

AI reads the CIM. A deterministic ruleset renders the verdict — every stamp traces to a published rule ID. No black box, no vibes, no model judgment on your money.

STEP 3

You get the digest

Pursue-grade deals with the economics. Investigate deals reduced to the one question that decides them. And the declined pile with reasons — so you learn the market while you search.

Not ChatGPT for listings

AI reads. Rules decide.

Every verdict traces to a versioned, auditable underwriting rule. Ask any other AI deal tool to show you its rulebook.

R-1.1 Verified SDE floor R-1.2 DSCR at real SBA terms R-1.2b −10% revenue stress test R-1.3 Lease runway vs. loan term R-1.6 Tenant of record match I-1.1 Add-back forensics I-1.3 Store-level vs. above-store NOI R-2.1 Occupancy cost caps R-2.2 Franchise brand watchlist R-2.6 Zero synergy credit R-2.8 Key-person concentration L-1.3 20-year lease floor L-1.4 Water-bill revenue verification
"If a deal only works with synergies, it doesn't work."

The ruleset is versioned like software and updated quarterly as market conditions shift. Subscribers see the changelog.

Where the rules come from

Built by an operator who's actually run these businesses.

"The restaurant rules came from real deals: the collapsing two-unit cookie bundle, the lease that expired before the loan did, the NOI that quietly included corporate overhead. The laundromat rules came from owning one myself — and from the water-bill math that caught a seller overstating revenue by 25%. Now the machine catches all of it in seconds, and it never gets tired, rushed, or charmed by a broker."
SCOTT GLADSTONE · FOUNDING UNDERWRITER · Former Chief Development Officer & President, International — NYSE-listed restaurant group spanning 3,500+ locations across Applebee's, IHOP, and Fuzzy's Taco Shop. Also a former laundromat owner-operator and author of a published guide to laundromat acquisition.
Pricing

Cheaper than one bad LOI.

Not sure what you'd get? See a real sample digest before you pick a tier.

Scout
$295
per month

For a searcher running one geography and one financing profile.

  • Weekly stamped digest for your chosen geography and vertical (restaurant or laundromat)
  • Standard SBA-searcher underwriting profile, pre-configured
  • Every PURSUE deal shows the economics and the specific rule that cleared it
  • The full declined pile, with the exact reason each one failed
Start with Scout
Desk
$495
per month

For a serious buyer ready to act on PURSUE deals, not just read about them.

  • Everything in Scout, plus:
  • Custom underwriting profile — your own SDE/income floor, financing type, and buyer model (absentee or owner-operator)
  • Full screening memo per deal: DSCR or cash-coverage model, stress test, every flag with its rule ID
  • Broker diligence questions pre-drafted and ready to send, not just listed
  • Price-drop watch — near-miss deals get re-flagged automatically if the ask comes down
Start with Desk
Institutional
$1,500
per month

For family offices and sponsors screening multiple markets or buyer profiles at once.

  • Everything in Desk, plus:
  • Multiple financing profiles screened in parallel (SBA, all-cash, conventional) — one deal, routed to whichever profile actually fits
  • Coverage across multiple markets/geographies in a single subscription
  • Draft non-binding IOIs generated automatically on every PURSUE deal
  • Analyst-grade memo on every PURSUE deal, written to LOI-prep standard
Start with Institutional
Single Memo
$750
one deal, one verdict

For anyone about to sign an LOI on a deal they found themselves.

  • Full underwriting of one deal, no subscription required
  • DSCR or cash-coverage model with a -10% revenue stress test
  • Lease-runway and add-back red flags, itemized
  • The exact broker question list, ready to send
  • Turnaround: same day for deals with financials already in hand
Request a memo
Founder pricing — the first 10 subscribers get 40% off for life (code FOUNDER10 at checkout), in exchange for a testimonial and telling us every time you disagree with a stamp. Your disagreements train Ruleset v1.3.
Questions buyers ask

Fair questions.

Is DealStamp a broker?
No — and that's the point. DealStamp doesn't list businesses, doesn't represent sellers, and doesn't get paid when you close. It's screening software on the buyer's side of the table. We don't touch the transaction.
Isn't this just AI guessing about my money?
The AI never renders a verdict. It reads listings and CIMs and extracts the numbers; a deterministic ruleset — the same one every time, versioned like software — renders the stamp. Every verdict shows the exact rules that fired. If you disagree with a rule, you can see it, argue with it, and watch the changelog when it's updated.
Where do the listings come from?
Marketplace alerts, broker distribution lists, and continuous hunts across the open web — including hundreds of individual brokerage sites that never make the big aggregators. Coverage compounds as broker relationships grow.
What happens when I find the deal?
You buy a business and stop needing us — which is the best outcome for both sides. Closed subscribers become case studies, and the digest is priced so a single avoided mistake pays for years of it.
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