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Is this stone shop a smart buy?

A diligence-grade framework for buyers evaluating a stone fabrication acquisition. Valuation lenses, integration risk, expected turnover, deal-killer checklist, and a 30 · 90 · 365-day post-close plan. Honest about culture — brutal about turnover — respectful of how hard this work is.

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For buyers evaluating an existing stone fabrication shop. Valuation lenses, integration-risk math, brutally honest first-year turnover estimates, deal-killer checklist, and a 30 · 90 · 365-day post-close game plan. Built for the deal that doesn’t close, as much as the one that does.

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Is this stone shop a smart buy?

Pick a sample deal or walk through the 6-step evaluator. We’ll surface the verdict, the deal-killers, and what your first 12 months will actually look like.

The verdict
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6 steps · about 10 minutes · we’ll show you what your deal really is.
Asking vs. fair value
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midpoint comparison
Risk index
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5-dimension average
Integration difficulty
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post-close burden
Expected Y1 turnover
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crew you'll likely lose
How DealLens thinks Most acquisition tools tell you what a business is worth. DealLens tells you what you’re really buying — the team you’ll lose, the customers tied to one person, the operational change you’ll regret in month 4.
Readiness gate
First gate: are you ready to be a stone shop owner?
Four honest questions about you (not the target) decide whether the deal math is even the right math right now.
Market context · what the local economy looks like
Add the target shop’s zip to anchor the deal to its local market.
A $1M stone shop in Mississippi and a $1M stone shop in San Francisco are very different businesses. Local wages, cost-of-living, and sold-price bands shape revenue assumptions, EBITDA expectations, and the realistic exit picture.
Seller story plausibility · do the numbers fit the market?
Reality-check the seller’s revenue, margin, and asking-multiple against local economics.
A 14% EBITDA margin is healthy in Atlanta but suspicious in San Francisco. $185k revenue per employee is normal in rural Texas but signals a thin shop in the Bay Area. Once a zip is set, this section calibrates the seller’s claimed numbers against local-market bands so you can see what to push on in diligence.
The verdict
One-line answer with the reasoning.
Buy at asking, buy with conditions, walk unless restructure, or walk away. Once the 6 steps are filled, this section is your headline.
Valuation lens · 3 methods, 1 range
Asset floor · revenue multiple · EBITDA multiple.
A side-by-side range with the asking price marked. Tells you how far above or below midpoint the asking price sits, and which lens makes the deal look reasonable.
Risk dashboard · 5 dimensions
The 5 deal-makers and deal-breakers.
Customer concentration, owner dependency, equipment vintage, lease/location risk, working capital health. Each scored 0–100 with the worst flagged for your diligence list.
Integration difficulty · what you’re really buying
The most under-priced risk in any acquisition.
Combines culture change, distance, your experience, and how abrupt the owner exit is. Outputs expected first-year turnover — honestly, even when it’s ugly.
Strategic fit · your goals vs. the data
Where what you said you wanted doesn’t match what’s actually on offer.
If you said you’re buying the team and the team is owner’s family that walks at close, this section catches it.
Deal-killer checklist · due diligence
The 15 things to verify before you sign.
Free version shows the list on screen. The formatted, printable hand-to-your-lawyer PDF is part of DealLens Pro.
Negotiation levers
Specific things to push on.
Price, escrow, owner stay, earn-out, working capital adjustment, R&W insurance. Tailored to the risks we found in your deal.
Post-close game plan
30 / 90 / 365-day sequence.
Don’t change anything visible in the first 30 days. Build trust before you cut anything. The order matters more than the moves.
Incentives & credits
Incentives are real money — and hyper-local.
Veteran-owned, woman-owned, opportunity-zone, state hiring credits, SBA bonuses. We list categories here; the live database lives in DealLens Pro.
Run the supporting tools on the target
Operations diligence
ShopPulse AI
Run the 7-category health check on the target. The score is your operational diligence summary.
Labor market check
LaborLogic
Model labor cost in the target’s market. Real wages vs. what the seller is reporting.
Post-acquisition growth
NextMove AI
Once the deal closes: what’s the next growth lever — building, outsourcing, equipment, hires?
DealLens Pro · coming
Subscription · when you have a real target

Free framework + live data + LLM analysis + workspace.

The free version teaches you how to think about a deal. Pro does the work when you’re under LOI — pulls live comps, current state-by-state incentives, real labor data, and runs the analysis through an LLM that’s been trained on the diligence patterns of hundreds of stone shop deals.

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This is a decision-support framework, not a substitute for your accountant, attorney, or banker. Valuation math uses simplified industry-typical multiples; risk scoring is judgmental, not financial-grade. Treat the verdict as a starting conversation with your advisors, not a final answer.