For first-time acquirers & searchers

Buy the business.
Keep the legacy.

Every year, thousands of profitable businesses close because the owner retires without a buyer. Buying Legacies teaches you how to find, screen, value and structure the acquisition of one — and gives you the documents and the model to actually do it.

Training & documents — one-time. Due Diligence Model — simple monthly plans.

The 60-second screenLIVE DEMO
Indicative value range$644,000 – $896,000Asking = 3.39× SDE
Priced above range
This is the teaser. The full Due Diligence Model normalizes CIM earnings, runs a 120-point check, and produces a risk-adjusted valuation. See what's inside →
Search processBuybox designSDE & EBITDA normalizationDeal structuringLOI to closeCIM due diligence
The system

Three tools. One path from “I want to buy a business” to a signed LOI.

Most buyers stall for the same reason: they can learn theory anywhere, but nobody hands them the working documents and the numbers. This does both.

01 · Learn

Acquisition Training

A structured course that takes you from zero to deal-ready — built for first-time buyers, not private equity analysts.

  • Design a buybox that fits your money, skills and risk
  • Proprietary + brokered search process, with outreach scripts
  • Read a CIM like an advisor (and spot what's hidden)
  • Valuation methods: multiples, DSCR-based, asset floor
  • Deal structures: seller notes, earnouts, vendor take-backs
  • LOI negotiation and the path to close
$297 · lifetime access
See curriculum ↓
02 · Screen & value

Due Diligence Model

Your account-based deal workspace: structured due diligence that feeds directly into an educational, risk-adjusted valuation.

  • Industry-driven inputs — the model asks what matters for that business
  • CIM normalization worksheet → defensible SDE line by line
  • 120-point due diligence checklist with red-flag tracking
  • Blended valuation: earnings, market and asset perspectives
  • Risk engine reads your diligence and shows a risk-adjusted value
  • Projects saved to your account · printable summary reports
From $19/mo · cancel anytime
See it working ↓
03 · Execute

Deal Document Kit

Every template you need from first contact to LOI — professionally structured, plain-English annotated, fully editable.

  • Mutual NDA (broker & direct-to-seller versions)
  • Indication of Interest (IOI) template
  • Letter of Intent — asset purchase, annotated
  • Due diligence request list (organized by phase)
  • Seller note term sheet + earnout language
  • Deal pipeline tracker & outreach scripts
$147 · Word format, editable
What's inside ↓
01 · Training

The curriculum

Six modules, in the order a real acquisition actually happens. Watch, then do — every module ends with an action that moves your search forward.

  • Why boomer retirements created the biggest ownership transfer in history
  • Personal audit: capital, skills, geography, risk tolerance
  • Building a written buybox: size, industry, margin and owner-dependency criteria
  • Action: your one-page buybox document
  • Brokered vs. proprietary search — economics of each channel
  • Working with brokers without getting deprioritized
  • Direct outreach: list building, letters and follow-up cadence
  • Action: launch your pipeline with 50 qualified targets
  • Anatomy of a Confidential Information Memorandum
  • What brokers emphasize — and what they bury
  • Customer concentration, owner dependency, revenue quality
  • Action: screen a real CIM with the 120-point checklist
  • SDE vs. EBITDA — which applies and when
  • Add-backs and normalization: legitimate vs. aggressive
  • Multiples, DSCR-based valuation, and the asset floor
  • Action: value two live listings with the model
  • Cash at close, seller notes, earnouts and equity rolls
  • Bank / SBA-style lending: what lenders actually underwrite
  • Working capital pegs and what they mean for your cheque
  • Action: build three structures for one target deal
  • Writing an LOI that wins without overpaying
  • Confirmatory due diligence: your advisor team and their scope
  • Common re-trades and how to handle them
  • Action: draft your LOI using the kit template
02 · Due Diligence Model

Do real due diligence yourself — and see what it does to the value.

Professional valuations and accountant reviews make sense once a deal is serious. This model is for everything before that: killing bad deals fast, and understanding what a fair, risk-adjusted price looks like when a good one appears. Educational and personal use — it informs your judgment, it never replaces professional advice.

  • Starts with your industryPick the industry and the model asks for the inputs that matter — technicians and service agreements for trades, capacity and backlog for manufacturing, payer mix for clinics.
  • CIM normalization worksheetOwner comp, market replacement salary, rent to market, family wages, one-time items — every field a reviewer looks for in a CIM.
  • Structured due diligenceBusiness facts (employees, concentration, lease, transition) plus a 120-point checklist with red-flag tracking.
  • Three-perspective valuationEarnings-based, market-based and asset-based views, blended by industry and grounded in recognized professional valuation practice.
  • Risk-adjusted valueThe engine reads your diligence answers, names each risk it finds — customer concentration, owner dependency, weak records — and shows exactly how it moves the value.
  • Your projects, your accountSign in anywhere, keep every deal saved, export project files, print summary reports. Calculations run in your browser — CIM figures aren't sent for processing.
03 · Deal document kit

Stop drafting from scratch. Start from documents that work.

Every template is fully editable Word format, annotated in plain English so you understand what each clause does before your lawyer polishes the final version.

Mutual NDA

Protects both sides in early conversations. Broker-process and direct-to-seller variants.

Indication of Interest

A one-page IOI to signal seriousness and secure access to detailed financials.

Letter of Intent

Asset-purchase LOI with price, structure, exclusivity and conditions — every clause annotated.

Due Diligence Request List

Phased document request list: what to ask for at LOI, and what waits for exclusivity.

Seller Note Term Sheet

Standard vendor take-back terms: rate, amortization, standby and offset language.

Scripts & Trackers

Broker intro scripts, direct-outreach letters and a pipeline tracker to run your search.

Pricing

One-time purchase. No subscriptions.

The Due Diligence Model is a monthly subscription — pick the depth you need. Training and the Document Kit stay one-time purchases below.

Checklist

$19/mo
  • 120-point CIM due diligence checklist
  • Structured business-facts capture
  • Red-flag tracking & progress by category
  • 3 active projects, saved to your account
  • Printable diligence summary
Start with Checklist

Analyst

$49/mo
  • Everything in Checklist
  • Industry-driven inputs & CIM normalization
  • Blended base valuation (earnings, market & asset views)
  • 5 active projects
  • Printable valuation summary
Choose Analyst

Need more room? +5 projects for $15/mo on any plan. Annual billing: 2 months free. Cancel anytime — your project exports are always yours.

Acquisition Training

$297 one-time
  • All 6 modules, lifetime access
  • Action steps that move a real search forward
  • All future updates included
Get the training

Deal Document Kit

$147 one-time
  • All 6 templates, editable Word format
  • Plain-English clause annotations
  • Outreach scripts & free updates
Buy the kit

30-day guarantee on one-time products. Subscriptions: cancel anytime, no questions.

FAQ

Questions buyers ask

Yes — for the final stretch. The model and training replace the money you'd burn getting professional opinions on deals that were never going to work. Once a deal survives your screen and a signed LOI, you bring in professionals for confirmatory diligence and legal drafting, focused and far cheaper.

No — and it says so on every output. The model follows recognized professional valuation practice as closely as a self-serve tool can, blending earnings, market and asset perspectives and adjusting for company-specific risk. But it's built for education and personal screening only: it cannot be used to justify a price, as an authority in negotiations, or for any legal, financing, tax or deal purpose. When a deal gets serious, engage a qualified valuation professional — you'll walk in understanding their report far better.

Calculations run in your browser — the figures you type aren't sent anywhere for processing. Your saved projects live in your account so you can pick them up on any device, and you can export any project as a file at any time. Cancel whenever you like; your exports remain yours.

It's built exactly for you. The training assumes no M&A background and every template is annotated in plain English. The order of the modules is the order of a real acquisition, so you always know what comes next.

Main-street and lower-mid-market deals — roughly $200k to $5M in purchase price, where SDE and simple multiple methods are the market standard and buyers do their own screening.

They're professional starting points, not legal advice. NDAs and IOIs are commonly used as-is; the LOI and note term sheet should get a pass from your lawyer before signing — which is fast and inexpensive when they're reviewing a solid draft instead of writing from zero.