Run DealGauge on your own client files for 14 days, at no cost.
Revenue declined 34.2% in a single year. Candidate drivers: churn, competitive loss, market contraction, pricing pressure, service suspension.
Suggested question: what was the root cause, and what share of this revenue has been recovered since?
Pull the financials, spread them by hand, and sit with the numbers until I could tell you what happened to the business. Then figure out what to ask the owner next. That part never got faster with experience. It just got more expensive to keep doing myself.
DealGauge is that process, built into software. Run it on your own files for 14 days, at no cost, with nothing to cancel afterwards, and judge the output the way you would judge an analyst's.
Send the work out and a share of every engagement goes to the provider who produces it. Keep it in and the production lands on you or your analyst, at 20 to 40 hours an engagement, which is also the ceiling on how many deals you can carry at once. Neither is a mistake. They have been the only two options. In-house valuation production is the third. You produce the engagement yourself, without the hours, and the share you send out today stays in the practice. You already know what that share was on your last five engagements. Run the arithmetic against one of them rather than against a year of software.
No setup call, no onboarding queue. You upload, it runs, and you read the output yourself.
Give it whatever the valuation would be built from: tax returns, QuickBooks exports, bank statements.
The insight reveal flags what moved in the business and the likely driver, and Smart Questions surfaces the follow-ups worth asking before you build anything further.
Market, income and asset approaches run together, the same three lenses you'd build by hand.
Report, executive summary, Excel model and deck, all pulled from the same run.
Illustrative examples of the class of read DealGauge is built to catch on your file: a number that moved, a likely reason why, and the question worth asking next.
A single-year revenue drop on a sub-$1.5M firm, with candidate drivers ranked automatically: churn, competitive loss, market contraction, pricing pressure, service suspension.
What was the root cause, and what share of this revenue has been recovered since?
Earnings jumped the same year depreciation fell 95%, a pattern that can hide flat cash generation behind a strong-looking multiple.
Is this real operating improvement, or lower non-cash charges masking flat performance?
Salaries moved from zero to six figures in a year, read as a likely shift from owner draw to a payroll structure.
Confirm which it was before this becomes part of the valuation.
The read is directional, and it points at the question worth asking. You review every output.
I've personally valued businesses representing approximately $1.9 billion in enterprise value across 450+ engagements. DealGauge is that methodology, encoded into every analysis it runs.
Each one keeps the trial honest for you and safe for the deal.
Your 14 days start when you sign up, and there's no cap on valuations in that time. Put several real files through it, not a demo sample, and judge the work across all of them.
Sign up with no card on file, so nothing bills on its own. The reports you download carry no watermark.
The output is a defensible draft, not a signed opinion. Nothing leaves your desk until you've reviewed it and put your name on it.
One valuation engagement bills $5,000 to $25,000. What share of that goes to your outside valuator today?
Unused valuations carry forward one month, capped at one month's allotment.
Unused valuations carry forward one month, capped at one month's allotment.
Unused valuations carry forward one month, capped at one month's allotment.
Unused valuations carry forward one month, capped at one month's allotment.
Yes. DealGauge uses AI models to extract line items, spot anomalies, and draft the narrative around them. It runs the same method used by hand across 450+ engagements, just faster.
No. It replaces the slow, mechanical parts of the job: spreading statements, hunting for what changed. The judgment, the client relationship, and the signature on the report stay yours.
Usually directionally correct, not infallible. That's the same caveat worth giving about any first-pass read of a file, which is why every output still needs your review before it reaches a client.
Nothing is billed automatically, because there's no card on file. Before your 14 days end you'll see the plan and pricing for your firm, and you decide whether to continue.
Yes. Same extraction, same analysis, same valuation engine, and no watermark on what you download. A paid seat also lets you put your own branding on the output.
Use a deal you've already closed, or a redacted set of financials. It runs exactly the same way. Your 14 days start at signup, so it helps to have one or two files ready when you begin.
No call, no deck, no waiting on a calendar. Just a file, and the same read run across 450 engagements.