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Deal Pipeline

Every deal, exactly where it stands.

DealStratum gives every acquisition search a single deal pipeline — a kanban board that moves each opportunity from Sourced to Closed, with the notes, files and activity attached to the deal, not buried in your inbox.

Sourced → ClosedNotes, files & activity per dealAdd straight from the Waterfall
DealStratum — Pipeline 11 ON THE BOARD
Sourced3
Coastal Logistics
3PL & warehousing · Savannah, GA
SDE $0.9MSBA elig.
JD2d ago
Riverbend Plumbing
Trades · Nashville, TN
SDE $0.7M
JD3d ago
Summit Pest Control
Home svcs · Denver, CO
SDE $0.6MRecurring
JD5d ago
NDA2
Midwest HVAC Co.
HVAC · Columbus, OH
SDE $1.4MSBA elig.
JDNDA sent 1d
Lakeside Dental Grp.
Healthcare · Madison, WI
SDE $1.1M
JDNDA sent 4d
CIM Review2
Brightline Mfg.
Precision mfg · Grand Rapids, MI
SDE $2.1MFit 86
JDCIM in review
Apex Electrical Svcs.
Trades · Dallas, TX
SDE $1.3M
JDQoE pending
Screened2
Cedar Ridge Veterinary
Healthcare · Boise, ID
SDE $1.2MFit 88 · Pursue
JDAI screened
Vista Car Wash
Auto svcs · Mesa, AZ
SDE $0.8MFit 64 · Review
JDAI screened
Engaged1
Granite Landscaping
Landscaping · Charlotte, NC
SDE $1.0MLOI out
JDLOI 6d
Closed1
Harbor Auto Group
Automotive · Tampa, FL
SDE $1.6MWon
JDClosed Q1
The problem

A spreadsheet can’t tell you what’s slipping.

A live search runs 30, 50, 80 deals at once. Track them in a spreadsheet and a notes app and your inbox, and the answer to “what’s next on Brightline?” is buried three tabs deep — if it’s written down at all.

  • ✕ You forget which broker is waiting on a signed NDA — and the deal goes cold.
  • ✕ The CIM, your notes, and the lender thread live in three different places.
  • ✕ No one — including you — can say at a glance which deals are actually moving.
The classic failure mode: a clean $1.4M SDE deal goes cold because the NDA sat unanswered for two weeks — not because the deal was wrong, but because nothing surfaced it.
— The scenario a pipeline exists to prevent
How it works

Your acquisition deal pipeline, in three moves.

From the moment a deal lands to the day it closes, every opportunity has a column, a card, and a clear next step.

1

Add a deal — or push one in

Create a card by hand, paste a listing URL and we scrape the details, or push a deal straight from the Waterfall. Asking price, SDE, broker and source come pre-filled so you’re not retyping anything.

2

Move it through the stages

Drag each deal across Sourced → NDA → CIM Review → Screened → Engaged → Closed. The board is the single source of truth for where every opportunity actually stands.

3

Keep everything on the card

Notes, the CIM, the lender thread, your screening read — all attached to the deal. Open one card and you have the full history, not a scavenger hunt.

Why it matters

More deals stay alive — and the right ones move faster.

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Nothing rots in your inbox

Every deal has a stage and an owner. The NDA you owe a broker is on the board, not lost — so good deals don’t go cold while you’re heads-down on another.

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Focus on the deals that count

Scan one board and instantly see what’s in review and engaged. You spend your hours on the three deals that can close — not the thirty that won’t; pass the dead ones to the graveyard (with a quick undo) and the board stays clean.

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A search you can actually report on

Investors and partners want a status. Read it straight off your board. Stage counts, SDE per deal, and momentum — without building a deck every month.

By the numbers

One board, the whole search.

The deal pipeline isn’t a parking lot. It’s the part of DealStratum that turns a pile of listings into a search with momentum.

6
stages, Sourced → NDA → CIM Review → Screened → Engaged → Closed
1
click to push a Waterfall listing onto the board
$0.9M–$2.1M
SDE deals tracked side by side, with fit scores
0
spreadsheets to maintain by hand

“A clean manufacturing deal goes from a Waterfall card to a signed LOI in nineteen days — not because it was the only good one, but because every morning the board showed exactly what it was waiting on.”

▸What a board with momentum looks likeThe deals that move are the ones you can see
FAQ

Questions searchers ask

How is this different from a generic CRM or Trello board?+

A deal pipeline in DealStratum is built for acquisitions, not generic tasks. Cards carry the fields that matter — asking price, SDE, revenue, broker, source, fit score — and the stages mirror a real buy-side process: Sourced, NDA, CIM review, Screened, Engaged, Closed. It also connects to the Waterfall, screening, and outreach, so the board isn’t a silo you have to keep up by hand.

Can I add deals I found outside DealStratum?+

Yes. Create a card manually for any deal — an off-market lead, a broker email, a referral — and work it through the same stages as listings you pushed in from the Waterfall.

Is my pipeline private, or shared with my team?+

It’s yours. Each member works their own board — you see only the deals you’ve added, not the whole team’s. When a partner or investor asks where things stand, you read the status straight off the board — stage counts, SDE per deal, what’s moving — instead of rebuilding a deck every month.

Stop losing deals in the cracks.

Put your whole search on one board and always know what’s next. Start your 14-day free trial.