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Practical guides on valuing, buying, selling, and evaluating AI-powered businesses.
How to set up escrow for a SaaS earnout: when to fund it, how much to hold, release triggers, metric definitions, dispute steps and US tax points.
How buyers find private, off-market AI SaaS and micro-SaaS deals, vet them, and judge private buyer networks, with a plain look at fees, NDAs and escrow.
How seller identity verification works when you buy or sell an AI SaaS business: what to collect, what to check, and what an ID badge cannot prove.
A flat success fee charges one percentage only when a deal closes. See the math on AI SaaS deals, how it compares with sliding scales, and what to check.
How to set up a data room for an AI SaaS exit: folder index, AI-specific documents, permissions, staged access and a go-live checklist for founders.
How to Buy a Micro SaaS Business: Where to Look, What to Check and What It Costs
A buyer's guide to micro SaaS under about $100K: buy vs build, what a good target looks like, where to look, what it costs with a worked payback example, how to fund it, and the first 90 days.
Double blind bidding explained: how sealed-bid auctions work, how they differ from open and proxy bidding, and how to bid when you buy or sell an AI SaaS.
SaaS Exit Strategy: Your Options, Timeline and First Steps (for Founders Under $5M ARR)
The realistic exits for a small SaaS or AI product, compared in one table, plus when to sell, what to fix in the 12 to 24 months before, how earnouts and tax work, and the mistakes founders make.
A practical M&A closing checklist for AI SaaS acquisitions: documents, escrow, repo and credential handover, taxes and HSR, in the order they happen.
Selling an AI SaaS business without a broker is realistic. Here are the steps, costs, tax points and risks, and how a flat 10% success fee compares.
What reps and warranties mean in an AI SaaS acquisition, which ones buyers push on, how disclosure schedules protect sellers, and how to prepare before the APA.
AI SaaS Due Diligence: What to Verify Before You Buy (and the Documents to Ask For)
Diligence on an AI SaaS business is ordinary SaaS diligence plus five checks that decide whether the profit is real: margin after model costs, provider dependence, ownership, thin-wrapper risk and retention. With a worked margin example and a 15-item request list.
How to run technical due diligence on an AI SaaS business: code audit, quality metrics, AI-specific risks, costs and a red-flag checklist for buyers under $100k.
How to use an NDA when selling a business: one-way vs. mutual, clauses that matter, staged disclosure, and how it works when selling an AI SaaS.
How to Sell an AI App: What Buyers Check That They Don't for Regular Software
The sale steps match any software business, plus five checks buyers run on AI products: margin after model costs, provider dependence, who owns the prompts and data, retention, and how easy the app is to copy.
Business Acquisition Steps: From First Call to Close
The nine steps to buy a small software business, with the time each stage takes, what it costs, the red flags to stop on, an illustrative deal, and a free planner that turns it into dates.
Flippa Alternatives: Where to Sell a SaaS or App in 2026
Four ways to sell a SaaS or app compared on listing fees, success fees and fit, with what you keep on a $50K, $250K and $1M sale and how to choose.
Is Acquire.com Legit? Fees, Reviews and Alternatives
Acquire.com is legitimate. What it costs a seller on three sales, what Trustpilot reviewers say, who it fits, and when another route suits an AI or SaaS business better.
Empire Flippers Review (2026): Fees and Is It Legit?
Empire Flippers is legitimate but expensive on smaller sales. How its blended commission works, what you'd pay from $100K to $3M, who gets in, and what reviewers say.
How Much Does an App Sell For? App Valuation in 2026
A small app that makes money sells for about 2x to 5x its yearly profit. Ranges by size, three worked examples from users and downloads to price, how each revenue type is priced, and what moves the number.
AI Wrapper Business: What It's Worth and How to Sell One
What an AI wrapper business is, the difference between a thin wrapper and a sellable one, what each sells for with two worked examples, and how to prepare and sell one.
Rule of Thumb for Selling a Business (and When It Fails)
The usual rule of thumb for a small software or AI business is 2x to 5x seller's discretionary earnings. Five common rules on one business, the ranges by size, and why buyers move the number.
How to Prepare a Business for Sale: A 12-Month Checklist for SaaS, App and AI Owners
A month-by-month plan for the owner of a SaaS, app or AI business: clean books and add-backs, the metrics buyers check, contracts, code and accounts, extra steps for AI products, the data room, and a free checklist spreadsheet.
AI Company Valuation: How Small AI Businesses Are Valued (and Why the Headlines Don't Apply)
Headline AI valuations of 10x to 50x revenue come from venture rounds and large deals. How a small AI business that makes money is actually valued, a worked $10K MRR example priced three ways, and what moves the number.
Due Diligence Checklist for Buying a Business: What to Verify in a SaaS, App or AI Deal
A due diligence checklist for buyers of small SaaS, app and AI businesses: what to ask for, how to verify it, what a red flag looks like, and a free spreadsheet to download.
Letter of Intent for Selling a Business: What to Include, With a Free LOI Generator
What a letter of intent covers when you sell a SaaS, app or AI business, which clauses are binding, what to check before you sign one, and a free generator that builds an LOI as a Word document.
Asset Purchase Agreement: The Contract for Selling a SaaS Business
A seller's guide to the asset purchase agreement: what a SaaS or app sale actually transfers, the clauses worth negotiating, what's market for escrow, caps and survival, and a worked example on a $500k sale.
How to Sell an App (Where to Sell It and What It's Worth)
How to sell a live iOS, Android or web app that makes money: what buyers look for, what it's worth, where to sell it, how the App Store and Google Play transfer works, and a worked example of what the seller nets.
Net Revenue Retention (NRR): The SaaS Metric Buyers Pay For
The median small B2B SaaS keeps 82% of its revenue from existing customers, not 100%+. What NRR is, how to calculate it (with a calculator), the benchmarks that apply at your size, and what it does to your sale price.
What Is an Earnout? How Earnouts Work in SaaS Deals
Sellers collect about 21 cents of every earnout dollar. What an earnout is, how SaaS earnouts are structured and taxed, a $1M example of what a seller really collects, and what to put in the agreement.
Asset Sale vs Stock Sale: Which One Fits Your SaaS Sale?
Most small SaaS businesses sell as asset sales. What changes hands in each structure, who pays more tax, and a $1M example showing what an LLC and a C-corp seller each net.
SDE vs EBITDA: Which One Values Your SaaS Business?
Owner-run SaaS under about $1M in earnings sells on SDE; bigger, team-run businesses sell on EBITDA. One $600k ARR example worked through both numbers, the add-backs buyers accept and reject, and 2026 multiples.
How to Finance a SaaS Acquisition
Every guide to buying a SaaS business teaches you to evaluate churn. Almost none tell you where the money comes from. Real SBA terms, seller note structures, and the coverage ratio that decides whether a deal is financeable at all.
How to Sell a SaaS Business
Almost everything written about selling a SaaS business is aimed at companies fifty times larger. This is for bootstrapped SaaS between $20K and $1M — fees, timeline, deal-killers, and what actually lands in your account.
AI Businesses for Sale: What to Check Before You Buy
Most of what gets submitted to our marketplace gets turned away. Here's what we check, in the order we check it, and what the numbers really look like at the small end of the market.
SaaS Valuation Multiples in 2026
Public SaaS trades at 3.2x revenue, private M&A at 4.0x, and bootstrapped businesses under $1M ARR at 2.5x–4x SDE. Current multiples by ARR band, by segment, and by AI SaaS category — every figure dated and sourced.
SaaS Business Valuation: How Much Is Your SaaS Worth?
Most SaaS businesses under $1M ARR sell for 2.5x to 4x annual profit, not annual revenue. The two formulas buyers actually use, a fully worked $10K MRR example, and the eleven factors that move your multiple.
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Most AI SaaS acquisitions under $500K fail for the same handful of reasons, and almost none of them are about which marketplace you bought from. This is the actual process: sourcing, category-by-category due diligence, the AI-specific risks most guides skip, and your first 90 days.
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