An analyst on every deal. Without the hire.
You found the target and you know your buy-box. Deal Studio turns each CIM and pile of financials into a clean, decision-ready screen, model, and lender package, built to your exact criteria. Set your screen up once, then send deals all month. No software to learn, no headcount to carry.
What screening deals yourself actually costs
A lean deal team’s scarcest asset is time, and every hour spent rebuilding a model is an hour not spent sourcing or closing. Move the sliders to your reality and see where Deal Studio lands against doing it yourself and against a full-time hire.
Your inputs
Illustrative only. “Value of your time” is opportunity cost, not cash out of pocket, and assumes reclaimed hours are redeployed to higher-value work. Analyst figure assumes roughly $80K base plus bonus, payroll taxes, benefits, software, and overhead. Deal Studio annual figure shown at standard monthly rate over 12 months; introductory pricing applies to your first 3 months and annual prepay saves 20%. Each plan includes a set monthly volume of deliverables.
The same work, three very different price tags
Most buyers default to doing it themselves because hiring an analyst feels like the only alternative. There is a third option built for deal teams of one or two.
Your own hours
- Every deal rebuilt from a blank page
- Inconsistent format deal to deal
- Time pulled straight from sourcing and closing
- No leverage when volume spikes
Full-time headcount
- Recruit, train, manage, and retain
- Fixed cost whether deal flow is hot or quiet
- You still QC every model
- Months before they are productive
A fractional analyst
- Finished, decision-ready work product
- Your screen, applied the same way every time
- Scale up or pause as deal flow moves
- No recruiting, no overhead, no management
*DIY figure: 8 deals/mo x 6 hrs x $250/hr x 12. Deal Studio “from” figure: Screener annual prepay at $1,430/yr. Your numbers will differ. Run them above.
Software hands you a login. We hand you the finished work.
The tools built for this assume you already have an analyst team, a deal history to load in, and the time to drive the software yourself. Most buyers do not. You found the business. You know roughly what you are looking for. What you do not have is the hours to turn a messy CIM and a pile of financials into a clean, consistent screen on every single target.
Deal Studio is the opposite of self-serve. You send the deal. We send back the finished analysis, formatted, complete, and measured against the exact criteria you set. No platform to learn. No seats to buy. No blank page.
Three steps, then repeat all month
Build your screen, once
Complete a detailed intake that captures how you evaluate a deal: industries, size, valuation ranges, margin floors, concentration limits, addback rules, deal-breakers, and how you weight each factor. We build one custom screening framework to your spec.
Send us deals
Found a target worth a look? Send the materials you have, the CIM, the seller financials, whatever the broker gave you. As often as your plan allows, all month long.
Get a decision-ready report
We run the deal through your screen and return a clean Deal Screening Report, typically within 1-2 business days, showing exactly how the target scores against your criteria, with everything inside or outside your parameters flagged. You make the call.
Finished work product, not another dashboard
Screening Reports
Your custom screen, applied to every target, in a consistent format you can put in front of a partner or a lender.
Operating Models
Fully dynamic, institutional-grade cash flow models built from your assumptions, on higher tiers.
Buyer Packages
Model, capital-raise summary, and SBA/lender deck, assembled to work together, on the top tier.
Your Stored Screen
Set it once. Every future deal runs through the same rigorous framework, and it sharpens over time.
Pick the tier that matches your deal flow
Introductory pricing for your first 3 months, then the standard rate. Annual prepay takes 20% off. All plans include up to 2 rounds of revisions per deliverable.
Screener
- 1 custom screening framework
- 5 Deal Screening Reports / mo
- 1-2 business day turnaround
- Valuation calculator access
Analyst
- Everything in Screener, plus:
- 5 additional Deal Screening Reports / mo
- 1 fully dynamic, institutional-grade cash flow model / mo
Buyer Package
- Everything in Analyst, plus:
- 5 additional Deal Screening Reports / mo
- 1 full Buyer Package / mo
- Guaranteed next business day turnaround
Bespoke
- Custom scope & volume
- Pooled or unlimited deliverables
- Dedicated production contact
Flat fees only. OneClose never charges a success fee or any compensation contingent on a transaction, financing, or capital raise.
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Are you M&A advisors, consultants, or brokers?
No. OneClose is a document and analysis production service. You define the criteria and make every decision. We build the materials to your specification. Nothing we produce is financial, investment, legal, tax, or valuation advice, or a recommendation to buy, sell, finance, or value any business.
Whose screening criteria do you use?
Yours, entirely. During onboarding you define your industries, size range, valuation parameters, deal-breakers, and weighting. We build your custom screen to that spec and apply it to every deal you send. The judgment is yours. We run it and format the result.
Do you tell me what a business is worth, or whether to buy it?
No. We apply your stated criteria to the documents you provide and show how the target scores against them. The conclusions and the decision are yours.
What do you need from me to screen a deal?
The target’s materials, such as the CIM and seller financials, plus your custom screen, which we set up once when you join.
Can I cancel?
Monthly plans can be cancelled anytime. Annual prepay plans run for the 12-month term.
OneClose provides marketing, presentation, and document production services only. OneClose is not a financial advisor, investment advisor, M&A advisor, broker, dealer, consultant, accountant, appraiser, or lender, and nothing OneClose produces constitutes financial, investment, legal, tax, valuation, or transactional advice or a recommendation to buy, sell, finance, or value any business or security. All criteria, assumptions, figures, and decisions are defined and provided by the client. OneClose applies the client’s stated criteria to client-supplied information and does not independently verify, audit, or opine on that information. Work product is provided for the client’s own internal use in their independent decision-making. All engagements are on a flat-fee basis; OneClose accepts no compensation contingent on any transaction, financing, or capital raise.