Deal Day is a 48-hour independent analysis of a specific business you're evaluating. You submit the listing and financials. We rebuild the numbers from source documents, evaluate SBA viability, identify every risk worth flagging, and deliver a written findings report with a direct go/no-go recommendation.
The purpose is to tell you whether a business is worth buying before you commit capital, sign a LOI, and spend months in due diligence. Most acquisition mistakes are made before the offer. Deal Day exists to prevent them.
Colton Mortag personally conducts every Deal Day analysis. You're not getting a junior analyst or a templated report.
No scope adjustments. Every Deal Day at $3,500 includes the full engagement.
Every Deal Day follows the same process. Submit the listing. Receive your analysis. Know whether to proceed.
Book your Deal Day and submit the business listing, asking price, and any available listing documents including the CIM.
3 years of business tax returns and the most recent P&L. The 48-hour clock starts when the financials are received.
Financials rebuilt from source documents — not from seller projections. Revenue normalized, add-backs evaluated, owner compensation separated.
Lease review, owner dependency, customer concentration, SBA eligibility. Deal-killers flagged separately from negotiating points.
Delivered within 48 hours. Every finding covered — rebuilt financials, add-back analysis, risk flags, offer structure recommendation, and the go/no-go.
Recorded 90-minute call. Walk through every finding. Ask every question. Leave with a direct direction and the specific reasoning behind it.
Proceed independently using the written findings and offer structure guidance — or continue into Deal Through, where MorCapital guides you from LOI through closing. Your Deal Day fee is credited in full.
Learn about Deal Through →The engagement is complete. You have a written record of exactly why this deal doesn't work — the most valuable thing you can have when evaluating the next opportunity.
A No-Go is not a failure. It's the best possible outcome if the deal was bad.
At minimum: 3 years of business tax returns and the most recent P&L. Balance sheets, interim statements, payroll records, and lease documents improve the analysis but aren't required to start.
Book the Deal Day and note that financials are pending. The 48-hour clock starts when the documents are received — not when the Deal Day is booked.
Yes — each business requires a separate Deal Day. If you're evaluating multiple listings, a brief call can help prioritize which to analyze first.
Some deals are neither clean Goes nor No-Gos. The report specifies exactly what conditions — price reduction, earnout, lease negotiation — need to be met for the deal to make sense.
Yes, for standard engagements with complete financials received. If documents are incomplete, the timeline is communicated immediately.
Yes — SBA viability review is a core component of every Deal Day. We evaluate whether the business and deal structure are likely to qualify before you invest time and money with lenders and attorneys.
Submit the listing and financials. Written analysis in 48 hours. A direct recommendation before you commit.
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