BONUS 01
The 40-Point Acquisition Readiness Score
An 8-category, 1-to-5 self-assessment that grades you across capital, timeline, buy box, motivation, time, risk tolerance, experience, and decision authority. Walk away with a 40-point score, the gap categories holding you back, and a 30 to 60 day plan to fix them before you start writing offers.
BONUS 02
The Capital Stack Decoder
A 10-section structural teardown of how SBA deals actually get financed: the 7(a) program, full-standby seller notes, the real 5% equity injection, post-close liquidity, DSCR thresholds, the meet-on-price-win-on-terms playbook, and 3 anonymized partner deals broken down line by line.
BONUS 03
The Walk-Away Filter
The internal and external red-flag list our analysts run on every deal that comes through the pipeline, organized by financial, addback, structural, seller-behavior, operational, and market categories, each tagged Yellow Flag, Red Flag, or Walk-Away.
BONUS 04
The First 90 Days Operator's Guide
A pre-takeover, week-1, month-2, and month-3 framework with checklists for every phase, the exact words to use on Day 1 with employees, what to extract from the seller before they check out, and the 8 mistakes new owners make in the first 90 days.