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AI Deal Screening

Paste a deal. Get a fast, plain-English read on any business.

AI deal screening reads any listing or CIM and hands you a fit score, the real strengths, the flags worth worrying about, and the exact questions to ask — before you burn a weekend on a deal that was never going to work.

Screen your first deal in under two minutes.

DealStratum — Screen Deal
Pasted from broker email · 11 pagesAtlas Pest Control — North GA. Asking $1.5M (4.2× EBITDA). Revenue $1.4M, SDE $480K. ~70% recurring route contracts, residential + light commercial. Owner-operated 14 yrs…
Done · 86 fit
86
Fit Score
Strong fit — worth a real look
Recurring revenueOwner key accounts3 questions
The problem

You’re reading CIMs at midnight. Most of them go nowhere.

  • A broker sends an 11-page CIM. You skim it, can’t tell if it’s real, and either pass on something good or chase something that was never financeable.
  • You don’t have an associate. There’s no one to hand the deal to and say “give me the read by morning.”
  • By the time you’ve spotted the one fatal flaw — customer concentration, owner-dependence, fake add-backs — you’ve already lost three nights to it.
~6 hrs

Time a careful searcher loses reading a single CIM that ends in a pass. Run that across the 40+ deals you’ll see this quarter and screening is the bottleneck — not sourcing. AI deal screening gives you back the nights and points you at the deals that deserve them.

How it works

Three steps from “no idea” to “ask the seller these questions.”

Paste the deal — or send the whole CIM. The screen reads it the way a sharp associate would, and answers in plain English.

1

Paste it or drop the CIM

Paste a broker email, a teaser, or upload the full CIM PDF. No formatting, no template — the screen handles messy, real-world deal docs.

2

Get a fit score + the read

A 0–100 fit score against your Buy Box, the genuine strengths, the flags that should worry you, and an honest take on the multiple and the structure.

3

Walk in with the right questions

The exact questions to ask before diligence — the ones that confirm the thesis or kill the deal in one call. Then push it straight to your pipeline.

The read

Not a summary. A judgment — with the one question that matters.

Other tools hand you a tidy recap of what you already pasted. DealStratum tells you whether to pursue it, why, and the single thing to confirm first. Here’s a real screen on Atlas Pest Control.

Fit score 86·added to Reviewing
dealstratum · screen
> Is Atlas Pest worth pursuing at 4.2× EBITDA?
Short answer: yes, with one question.
~70% of revenue is recurring route contracts — that’s the asset, and it makes 4.2× reasonable and the deal financeable on SBA terms. The margins hold and there are no add-backs that smell invented.
But the owner personally services the top 5 accounts. Confirm those contracts transfer — and survive his exit — before you fall in love. That single answer moves this from an 86 to a pass or a pursue.
Why it matters

Screen faster, pass smarter, close the right ones.

Kill bad deals in minutes

Spot the fatal flaw — concentration, owner-dependence, juiced add-backs — before it costs you three nights. Your “no” gets faster and your “yes” gets braver.

Walk in prepared

Every screen ends with the questions that confirm or kill the thesis. You show up to the broker call sounding like a buyer who’s done this before.

See more deals, not fewer

When screening takes minutes instead of hours, you can run every deal in the Waterfall through it — and stop letting good ones slip because you were buried in a bad one.

Proof

Built for the way searchers actually evaluate deals.

Scored against your Buy Box, grounded in the numbers in the doc, and honest about what it can’t see.

<2 min
From paste to a full read on a typical CIM
0–100
Fit score, mapped to your buy box
86
Atlas Pest fit score — added straight to Reviewing
3
Diligence questions surfaced per screen, on average

“It caught the customer concentration on a deal I’d already half-talked myself into. That one flag saved me a month of diligence — and probably a bad acquisition.”

RM
Self-funded searcherAcquiring a $2M home-services business
FAQ

AI deal screening, answered.

What can I screen — just listings, or a full CIM?

Both. Paste a broker email or teaser, or upload the full CIM PDF. The screen reads messy, real-world deal docs and pulls the numbers and terms it needs without any formatting on your end.

How is the fit score calculated?

It scores the deal 0–100 against your Buy Box — industry, geography, price, SDE/EBITDA and your qualifiers — then weighs the strengths and flags it found in the doc. Tighten your buy box and the scores get more useful.

Does it replace diligence?

No — it makes diligence smarter. Screening tells you which deals deserve diligence and hands you the questions to ask first. It’s the read you’d get from an associate, not a substitute for your own judgment or a Q of E.

Stop reading. Start screening.

Get a fast, plain-English read on any business.

Screen your next deal in under two minutes — and only spend your nights on the ones worth it.

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