Who we act for, how we are paid, and the limits of every number on this site. Written before you need it rather than after.
Last updated: 15 August 2026
Our fee is five percent of the sale price on closing, with nothing up front. You should understand what that arrangement does to our incentives, because it cuts both ways.
In your favour: we carry the cost of the work, so we have no reason to keep you busy, no billable hours to fill, and no interest in a process that drags. What you should watch: a firm paid on closing has an interest in a sale happening. Not selling, or deciding the best offer is still not good enough, earns us nothing.
That is why the free part of this site is built to be useful even if you never sell, and why nothing here tells you to. If you ever feel pushed toward a transaction, the appropriate response is to ask us directly, and to ask your own accountant or lawyer, who are not paid on your closing.
In every engagement we represent the owner selling the business. We do not act for the buyer, and we are not paid by them.
We do keep a list of buyers and what they are looking for, so that a business we represent can be matched to them confidentially. Being on that list makes someone a contact, not a client. If you are a buyer reading this: we owe you accurate information and a fair process, and we owe our seller our advocacy.
Accountants, lawyers and other advisors can refer clients to us and are paid a share of our fee if that business sells. If you arrived through such a link, that is disclosed to you before an account exists, and it is recorded with your file.
Two things follow. Your referrer's payment comes out of our fee, not on top of it, so it costs you nothing. And a professional who refers you has a financial interest in your sale closing, which is worth knowing when you ask them what they think. What they can see about you is limited to a stage, for example preparing or in market. Never your valuation, your offers, your buyer or any document, and you can have the referral link to you removed on request. The full arrangement is on the referral partners page.
Typical multiple ranges shown in a snapshot describe what buyers generally pay for businesses in that industry. They are market context, not a statement about your business.
An indicative range produced in your workspace is an estimate built from the inputs you provide and from typical transaction multiples. It is not a formal valuation. A formal valuation is a separate paid engagement performed by a qualified business valuator, it examines your actual records, and it is the only kind of figure that carries weight with a court, a tax authority or a lender.
Timeframes and cost estimates anywhere on this site are typical ranges for transactions of this size, not predictions about yours. The transaction fee percentages shown in a snapshot are general estimates of what legal and accounting work tends to cost, and they are not quotes from anyone.
No figure on this site is a promise about what your business will sell for. Actual prices depend on your real earnings, your records, who is bidding, and what is negotiated.
The workspace assistant explains terms, organizes what you have and answers questions. It is deliberately limited in three ways, and the limits are design rather than caution.
Like any AI system, it can be wrong. Check anything that matters against the source document, and against a person.
The firm trading as investDeal is a sell-side mergers and acquisitions and private-market advisory firm serving owner-operated businesses across Canada.
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If something on this page is unclear, or if you think we have a conflict we have not named, ask us. A conflict you can see is manageable. One you find out about later is not.
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