About investDeal

A sell side M&A firm for owner operated businesses across Canada. We represent the seller. We do not act for buyers, and we are not paid by them.

The problem we were built around

An owner thinking about selling has one first move available to them, and it is a bad one: book a meeting with a broker or an accountant, which means telling somebody, and usually means paying a retainer before finding out anything worth knowing. So most owners wait. They wait until a health problem, a burnt out year or an unsolicited offer forces the question, and they end up selling from the weakest position available to them.

The preparation that raises a sale price takes roughly a year to show up in numbers a buyer will look at. The whole point of this firm is that you find out where you stand early enough for that year to still be available to you, without telling anyone and without paying to find out.

How we work

  1. Free and anonymous firstThe assessment, the report it produces and the workspace tools are free and stay free whether or not you engage us. The assessment asks for no name, no email and no phone number.
  2. AI organises, people judgeThe model reads documents, extracts terms and drafts explanations. Every judgment call, what an offer is worth, whether to take it, what to fix first, belongs to a licensed advisor. Any tool whose work is done by the model carries AI in its name, so you can always tell which you are reading.
  3. Paid only when you areFive percent of the sale price, on closing. No retainers, no hourly billing, nothing due up front. If the business does not sell, you owe us nothing.

Why the fee is structured that way

It is the one thing a new firm can prove without a track record. A retainer buys real work and we are not going to pretend otherwise, but it also means the firm has been paid whatever happens to you. Five percent on closing means we are wrong about your business at our own expense, and it is the reason we would rather tell an owner to wait a year than take on a sale that is not ready.

What we are not

We are not a listings site and we do not run auctions. We do not act for buyers, so nothing on this site is neutral about whose side we are on. We are not your accountant or your lawyer: you keep yours, and a sale needs both. And the valuation tools here are indicative, which means they are built to tell you which conversation you are having, not to be quoted to a buyer.

The firm

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Start where everyone starts

Ten minutes, anonymous, and you keep the report whether or not you ever speak to us.