Source to exit

Buy a company off the public record.

It finds the company, reads what every register holds on it, prices it, and carries the deal to the wire — then through the years you own it, to the sale.

The Brief on a worked example: the verdict first, then five judgments, each with its confidence, what it rests on and what would change it; two are shaded because they rest on something that is not a record

The Brief answers its own question first, then shows every judgment with what it rests on. The two it cannot prove are shaded — the only place the product admits an inference.

152,557companies on record
194,789sites on the map
4sector datasets read in full — aggregates, defense, funeral and manufacturing
24 Sep 2026newest register read
The product

It reads a company the way a careful buyer would. Then it shows its working.

01 · The record

Every fact carries its source. What is not on record says so.

The Dossier is the company as the registers hold it — the site, the people, the permits, the liens — each figure with the register it came from and the date it was read.

  • Not yet searched and none on record are different facts, and the product never confuses them.
  • What the record cannot tell you is listed, with what settles it.
The Dossier: the reasons on record, each with its source, what the record cannot tell you, and the owner on record

Dossier. The reasons on record, and the two things only a conversation settles.

02 · The price

One model. The number a lender will actually finance.

Underwrite opens with the verdict and the four figures that carry it. Risks prices what it finds, and the price that survives the register becomes the default price on the letter of intent.

  • The return, the three statements and every capital stack run off one set of inputs.
  • The ceiling is where coverage meets the lender’s minimum — a counter above it is a walk.
Underwrite: bought as asked it does not finance — asking price, coverage, cash at close and the five-year return
Risks: the price bridge from the asking price to the defensible price, with the lender ceiling marked

Underwrite and Risks. The verdict in one line; the bridge from asking to defensible on a real axis.

03 · Close

Every offer against your ceiling. Every date against the clock.

The offers ledger keeps each number, the seller’s answer and how far it sits from what finances. Once the letter is signed, the Clock holds exclusivity, diligence, financing and the close date — and re-flows everything when one moves.

  • The letter-of-intent ledger seeds the Close ledger; nothing is re-keyed at the handoff.
  • Risks become findings; the model becomes the budget.
Offers: asking, defensible and ceiling, and a counter shown above the ceiling

Act. The counter, and how far above the ceiling it sits.

The Clock: diligence, exclusivity, financing and close dates with days remaining

Clock. Four dates, one record.

What it will not do

The software does not make things up. That is the product.

It will not

Guess

A number the record does not hold is shown as not on record. An estimate is labelled an estimate and carries its method. An inference is shaded and says so.

It will not

Decide for you

The screen recommends at your threshold; the verdict is yours and is recorded as yours. A deal does not move a stage until you move it.

It will not

Send anything

No email leaves the product on its own. The script, the letter and the offer are written for you to send, and every draft says attorney review required.

Coverage

Every site on record, on one map.

A thesis is a saved set of rules — sector, flags, score, size. Watch one, and each time the map recounts it the companies that have entered since are a line in Today. The sector datasets read in full today: Aggregates, Defense & federal contracting, funeral and Manufacturing.

The Source map: every site on record across the United States, clustered by density
194,789sites · 152,557 companies · newest read 24 Sep 2026
AggregatesDefense & federal contractingfuneralManufacturing
The line

One line, source to exit. Each room answers one question.

A deal is a company moving along a line of rooms. The rooms ahead read as previews; the rooms behind stay readable as the record. Each phase writes its own paper from the deal as it stands.

01

Source

Find it, read it, price it, get to the letter of intent
Rooms
BriefShould I care?
DossierWhat's the proof?
UnderwriteWhat's it worth?
RisksWhat could kill it?
ActWhat do I do?
It writes
  • Phone script
  • Email draft
  • Letter — follow-up
  • Information request + NDA
  • Mutual NDA
  • Indication of interest
  • Letter of intent
  • Seller-note term sheet
  • Brief — the read
  • IC screening memo
  • Royalty and lease outline
  • Consulting and transition — outline
  • Permit transfer checklist
  • Phase I — request for proposal
  • Market and thesis report
  • Offer of employment
02

Close

From the countersigned letter to the wire
Rooms
ClockHow long do I have?
DiligenceWhat did we find?
The roomWhere does it all land?
TermsWhat are we agreeing to?
FinancingDoes the money close?
ClosingCan we close?
It writes
  • Purchase agreement — counsel-ready draft
  • Term sheet — from the ledger
  • Day-one request list — to the seller
  • Diligence report
  • Gate memo
  • Disclosure schedules — from the risk thread
  • Funds-flow memorandum
  • Closing binder — index
  • Closing checklist — to the agreement
  • The room — index
  • IC final memorandum
  • Quality of earnings — summary
  • Capital partner — the deal in nine pages
  • Status report — by workstream
  • Weekly call — agenda
  • Investor two-pager
03

Operate

The first day, the first hundred, the years after
Rooms
Day 1 & 100 daysWhat must be true on day 1?
CadenceHow is it running?
Model vs actualsIs it what we underwrote?
ObligationsWhat is owed, and when?
Add-onsWhat do we buy next?
It writes
  • The first hundred days
  • The budget book
  • Valuation mark — memorandum
  • Schedule K-1 pack
  • Weekly flash
  • Board pack
  • Covenant compliance certificate
  • Investor letter — this company
  • Investor letter — the holdings
04

Exit

Would a buyer buy it — and then, the sale
Rooms
ReadinessWould a buyer buy it?
Data roomIs the record ready?
ProcessWho is buying, and where are we?
TailWhat is still owed after the wire?
It writes
  • Exit-readiness report
  • Teaser — the company unnamed
  • Process update — memorandum
  • Notice of distribution
  • Term sheet — the seller’s side
  • Confidential information memorandum
  • Management presentation — outline
  • Final returns

A field the record cannot fill is written as not on record, never invented. Paper that goes to an owner never names the software.

Plans

Every plan is the whole product.

This copy of DealSTE takes new organizations by invitation. If somebody has invited you, use the link they sent. Plans differ in who can sign in, never in which rooms open.

PlanWho it is for
TrialThe whole product for thirty days. Nothing is switched off and nothing is asked for up front.
SoloOne person, one book. The buyer who is doing this themselves.
FirmA small team on one book, with counsel and the lender given their own scoped view.
PlatformNo seat limit, no guest limit. A holding company running several books at once.

Buy a company off the public record.

Built for the buyer doing this themselves — the owner-operator on an SBA loan, the self-funded searcher, the independent sponsor, the small holding company.