Acquisition Engine

Platform · Valuation

Fees or profit, earnout, clawback, downside

A model that reflects how practices are actually bought — staged consideration, retention risk, and a downside you have looked at before you sign.

Basis

Priced off the right base

Fee blocks on a multiple of gross recurring fees; share purchases on adjusted profit where there is a reliable figure, falling back to fees where there is not.

Structure

Staged consideration

Completion payment, earnout instalments, and a schedule that always sums to the headline price — with the rounding on the last instalment, not spread as a fudge.

Risk

Clawback modelled

What comes back if fees walk, capped at the amount genuinely at risk rather than at a number that flatters the buyer.

Downside

A downside table

What the deal looks like at 90, 80 and 70 per cent retention, before you agree the multiple rather than after.

The other side

Seller net

Run-off cover and deal costs off the top, so the conversation with the seller is about a number they recognise.

Honesty

Marked as an estimate

Where a figure is derived rather than researched it says so, on screen and in the pack. An estimate that looks like a fact is worse than no figure.

See it on your own mandate

The most useful demo is against a real brief — what you are buying, where, and at what size. You will see your own long list, not a demo account.

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