The valuation stays in your brokerage, and so does the fee
A seller wants a number before they sign the listing, and they may be talking to another broker while you wait for one. Today you have two ways to get it. Send the financials to an outside valuator, wait on the report and hand over part of the fee, or have someone in your office spend 20 to 40 hours spreading the returns and building the model. DealGauge is the third way, in-house valuation production for business brokers.
The listing doesn't wait on a valuator
Upload the seller's tax returns, financial statements or QuickBooks export. DealGauge extracts the numbers and shows what changed in the business, the likely driver behind each change, and the questions worth asking the seller before the valuation is built. Clean returns need the least of your review and messier files need more, but either way you go back to the seller already knowing where to push.
A number you can defend across the table
The market approach drives the valuation. The report shows the sector's observed multiple range, the sources behind it and where the selected multiple sits, with the reasoning for that placement. When a buyer's advisor asks why the number is where it is, the answer is already on the page.
See how DealGauge values a businessYour name, your signature
What comes back is the Valuation Report, the Snapshot Valuation Report and the One Pager, plus the editable model. It's a defensible draft. You review it, change what your judgment says should change, and sign. The signature block stays empty until you fill it.
The fee math runs on one engagement
Look at your last valuation engagement and the share of the fee that went to the outside valuator. That share stays in the brokerage. Valuation engagements in this market typically bill $5,000 to $25,000, and the subscription is recovered against the fee you keep on a single one.
Approximately $1.9 billion in enterprise value across 450+ engagements.
Hensay Qualah, founder