Buying a Small Business?

Before investing hundreds of thousands of dollars into buying a business, let RunSmart automatically analyze its QuickBooks Online financial data to assess its financial health, identify potential risks, and generate forward-looking financial projections in just minutes.

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Key Questions Every Buyer Should Answer Before Purchasing a Business

Is the Business Financially Healthy?

RunSmart analyzes the business’s profitability, liquidity, solvency, efficiency, and capitalization across 13+ KPIs to help you understand its overall financial health.

Are Its Profits and Cash Flow Sustainable?

RunSmart evaluates historical performance and automatically generates forward-looking projections to help you understand how revenue, expenses, profitability, and cash flow are forecasted to change over time.

What Financial Risks Should I Investigate?

RunSmart automatically identifies concerning financial trends and potential risks in a business's financial data that may warrant closer investigation before you move forward with the acquisition.

How Could the Business Perform After I Buy It?

RunSmart allows you to model what-if changes in revenue, expenses, staffing, and other assumptions over time so you can explore how the business could perform under your ownership.

A Business Can Look Profitable and Still Carry Financial Risks

Financial statements can show what happened in the past. Buyers also need to understand what those numbers reveal about the true financial health and potential future performance of the business.

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Why Relying on Seller-Provided Financials Is Risky

Many buyers evaluate an acquisition using:

Profit and Loss statements
Tax returns
Seller-prepared summaries

Those documents are important, but they may not clearly reveal whether profitability is improving or declining, whether the business has sufficient liquidity, or whether its current performance is sustainable. Without deeper financial analysis, buyers may overlook risks that only become apparent after the acquisition.

Why Traditional Financial Review Falls Short

Evaluating a business before you buy it can be both time-consuming and expensive. Many buyers either spend thousands of dollars hiring financial professionals or attempt to analyze historical financial statements on their own, making it difficult to confidently determine whether a business is financially healthy and worth pursuing.

Traditional financial reviews often require buyers to:

Pay thousands of dollars for accountants, consultants, or valuation professionals before knowing whether the opportunity is worth pursuing.
Spend hours manually reviewing historical financial statements, spreadsheets, and financial ratios to understand the business's performance.
Interpret complex financial data without a clear understanding of potential risks, financial health, or future performance.
Make important acquisition decisions based primarily on historical results, without automated projections or forward-looking financial insights.
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How RunSmart Helps

RunSmart securely connects to the seller's QuickBooks Online account to automatically analyze historical financial data and transform it into financial health insights, risk analysis, KPIs, and forward-looking financial projections.

It helps you:

Assess the business’s overall financial health
Identify trends and potential financial risks
Generate projections for revenue, expenses, profitability, and cash flow
Explore how different assumptions could affect future performance

This gives you a clearer financial picture to support your due diligence and determine which areas deserve further investigation.

Before You Make an Offer

Before you:

Submit a letter of intent
Apply for acquisition financing
Enter formal due diligence
Commit your capital

Make sure you understand the financial health of the business and how it could perform after the acquisition. Once negotiations begin, decisions can move quickly. RunSmart helps you analyze the financial data early so you can approach the opportunity with greater clarity and confidence.

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Real buyers. Real clarity.

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"What impressed me most is how easy it is. I don't have to build complex models again."
Brad Kingsford
CPA
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"I can scan my entire client base and quickly spot where margins are projected to tighten without digging into each set of financials."
Ashley Chen
CPA
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"I’m not building models or digging through reports anymore—it’s already laid out for me."
Brian O’Connor
CFO
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"I don’t have to rebuild models just to answer basic ‘what happens if this changes’ questions."
Samantha Lee
Bookkeeper
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"I save a ton of time on monthly reviews now. Most of the work is already done when I log in."
Daniel Brooks
Accounting Firm Owner
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"It’s straightforward and easy to use. I didn’t have to spend time figuring things out."
Michael Patel
Small Business Owner
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Misty Callen
Senior Advisor
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"The forecasting alone is a game changer. I don't have to build or model anything manually and its so much more reliable then what I've seen from others."
Kassi Ramirez
Fractional CFO
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Make a More Informed Acquisition Decision

Automatically analyze a business’s financial health, identify potential risks, and generate forward-looking projections before you commit to buying it.

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