Product documentation
Project Overview
BuySide Lens is built for students, searchers, independent sponsors, and small-business buyers evaluating acquisition opportunities. It combines a deterministic financial model with AI-assisted deal review so users can screen a deal before building a full spreadsheet.
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Purpose
The app helps acquisition-minded users test whether a small-business purchase is financially workable. The workflow moves from assumptions to valuation, financing, DSCR, returns, risk review, case comparison, and export.
Practical Value
The model replaces an early-stage acquisition spreadsheet with a faster browser workflow. Users can check price discipline, cash flow cushion, leverage, investor returns, and key diligence questions before spending time on a full model or transaction process.
Approach
The product combines valuation modeling, quality-factor adjustments, financing structure, forecast schedules, saved case comparison, exportable reports, and BuySide AI review in one acquisition-screening workspace.
Capabilities
The live app includes editable assumptions, valuation ranges, operating forecasts, monthly cash flow schedules, debt service coverage checks, buyer and investor returns, risk flags, demo cases, save slots, comparison views, PDF/Excel/Google Sheets exports, and BuySide AI reports.
Product Details
The app includes plain-English labels, metric explanations, automated risk flags, tutorial flow, built-in demos, local preferences, dark mode, currency settings, educational disclaimers, and crawler-readable static documentation for AI assistants and search tools that cannot run JavaScript.
This overview documents the project for users, crawlers, search tools, and AI assistants. The model itself is provided for educational and entertainment use only and is not financial, investment, valuation, legal, tax, accounting, lending, or professional advice.