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Springer Industries · 4 buyers · matrix locked

Springer Industries · 14 prefs

Round 1 · matrix locked

Preference
A. Rivera
leading
J. Lee
 
M. Webb
 
T. Singh
 
Purchase priceHard
Cash at close ≥ 70%Hard
Closing in 90 daysPref
Retain 4 of 5 key staffPref
Working capital targetPref
Earnout ≤ 15%Pref
Buyer financing verifiedHard
Composite
8.4
8.1
5.6
3.7

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§ III·Capture & compare

Capture every preference. Score every offer.

A seller's preferences come in three states: hard requirement, preferred, or blank. Brokers capture them once at the start of a deal, the platform routes them into the buyer LOI form, and every offer that comes back is mapped against them — the matrix at the top of this page is that mapping for a sample deal.

All 14 preference categories

Source · sellerPreferences.ts

  • 01Purchase price
  • 02Deal structure
  • 03Payment mix
  • 04Working capital target
  • 05Exclusivity window
  • 06Due-diligence window
  • 07Closing timeline
  • 08Transition support
  • 09Employee retention
  • 10Non-compete
  • 11Reps & warranties posture
  • 12Escrow
  • 13Financing certainty
  • 14Buyer experience

Every category carries a weight the seller sets. The composite score in the matrix reflects what matters most, not just what every buyer happens to mention.

Springer Industries · session in progress

PURCHASE PRICE · MIN ACCEPTABLEHARD REQUIREMENT$4.2MWEIGHT · DISQUALIFY ON MISSPAYMENT MIX · CASH AT CLOSEHARD REQUIREMENT≥ 70%WEIGHT · DISQUALIFY ON MISSEMPLOYEE RETENTION · KEY STAFFHARD REQUIREMENTPREFERREDNO PREFERENCEVALUERetain 4 of 5

What a brokerage on Evenhand sees · proof strip

66d
Deal velocity
Exclusive to closed
Median, trailing twelve months
78%
Close rate
Trailing twelve months
Buyer-side LOI conversion
8.2
Median fit score
Selected buyer
Weighted preference match
$1.42M
Commission run-rate
Annualized
Trailing twelve months realized

No spreadsheet copy-paste.
No two-paragraph explanations.
No hidden assumptions.


§ IV·Run the deal

Run the deal from LOI through close.

One workspace covers everything that happens after the LOI is accepted — and reaches into your existing toolchain where your firm already has one.

01 · CLOSING CONDITIONS

From a checklist to a workflow.

Every closing condition the purchase agreement names: who owes what, when it's due, when it cleared. Comment threads stay on the condition itself.

02 · PURCHASE AGREEMENT TRACKING

Drafts, redlines, and version history.

Track how the purchase agreement changes as drafts are exchanged. Every revision, comment, and accepted edit is recorded.

03 · TRANSITION PLANNING

The first 90 days, written down.

Customers, vendors, accounts, employees. A shared transition checklist with owners and dates so the handover is clean.

Bring your own VDR. Bring your own e-sig.

Connect Firmex, iDeals, Google Drive, or Dropbox for document storage; the bundled Dropbox Sign account or your firm's existing Dropbox Sign / DocuSign for signatures. Evenhand sends from your account with your audit trail.

Document storage

  • Firmexregulated
  • iDealstracked
  • Google Drivebasic
  • Dropbox Businessbasic

E-signature

  • Dropbox SignEvenhand-managed
  • Dropbox Signbring your own
  • DocuSignbring your own

Service providers — invite-only, per-deal

Either side of the deal can invite a CPA, attorney, banker, or lender into a workspace on a per-deal basis. The SP sees only the surfaces they were granted, only on the deals they were invited to, and only for as long as the engagement runs. Conflicts of interest are surfaced openly before any work begins.


§ V·Diligence & QoE

A QoE you can run before the LOI.

Evenhand carries the same QoE framework the buyer uses, on the broker side: five financial categories — revenue quality, expense normalization, working capital, customer concentration, proof of cash — plus seven expanded diligence categories: commercial, operational, legal, HR, IP/IT, real estate, regulatory. Either side can start it.

Uploads are append-only with a supersede chain — the platform does not permit a silent edit. Bank-statement re-uploads carry extra confirmation friction. The conclusions stay with the human reading them.


§ VI·Your buyers, your contacts

The contact relationship is yours.

Every business broker keeps a contact database somewhere. Evenhand keeps it with you, in the workflow. Contacts and companies, with notes, tags, and lead sources. A pipeline view from target through closed with the stages your firm uses. Activity logs that link to the deals they preceded.

When a contact becomes a deal participant, the CRM record and the deal record stay linked, so the contact's history is one click away from the deal page and the deal's outcome flows back into the contact's record.

Brokerage pipeline

Target

Active

Dormant

Aspen Cabinetry

$3.2M rev

Lyle & Sons

$1.8M rev

Sumner Dist.

$6.4M rev

Northshore

$2.9M rev

Burroughs

$1.2M rev

NDAs and what's behind them.

Every brokerage has its NDA. Every signed NDA gates access to the materials it was meant to protect. Documents on a deal carry one of three confidentiality levels — public, NDA-gated, selected-buyer-only — visible only to the right parties. NDAs expire after the term you set, defaulting to 24 months. The platform reminds you and the buyer 14 days before expiry.

Confidentiality tiers

Confidentiality tiers

  • publicTeaser, redacted summary, photos. Anyone on the deal can read.
  • nda_gatedFull CIM, customer narrative, unredacted financials. Buyers with an active NDA only.
  • selected_buyer_onlyPost-LOI diligence stack. Exclusive buyer and their service providers.

Know which buyers are real.

Evenhand surfaces what the platform has seen about every buyer on your deals: NDA history, financing pre-qualification (verified by your team against an issuer document and refreshed every 90 days), prior submitted offers, prior exclusivity grants, and closed deals. The signals show up on the buyer's row in the matrix — visible at the moment you're about to spend an hour on a pitch. Pre-qualification is verified by you, not self-attested.

Buyer readiness · Apex Industrial Holdings

Buyer

Apex Industrial Holdings

NDA
Signed · 11 mo. remaining
Financing
$4.2M verified · 2 sources
Prior engagement
7 offers · 3 exclusive1exclusivity broken
Closed in your firm
2 deals

Your sellers, your buyers, your comparables: never reused, never resold, never on someone else's marketplace.


§ VII·The record

Show the work, in order.

Every offer, every LOI revision, every earnout milestone, every seller-note payment, every Q&A thread, every diligence finding — each entry is hash-chained against the one before it. The chain itself is the audit.

Every buyer offer also lands on this chain as an attested submission. The attestation text, the timestamp, and the buyer are part of the entry; the entry's hash freezes all three together.

Audit log · Springer Industries · offers

  1. 2026-04-28 · 14:02 · Meridian Capital

    LOI revision 03 — cash at close raised 65% to 72%

    9f3c…a71d·prev e2b1…0f6c·verified

  2. 2026-04-28 · 14:01 · Meridian Capital

    Offer attested — independence affirmed

    e2b1…0f6c·prev b7d4…2911·verified

  3. 2026-04-26 · 09:41 · Keystone Partners

    LOI revision 02 — working capital target $420k

    b7d4…2911·prev 7c92…48a3·verified

  4. 2026-04-25 · 16:18 · seller

    Preference updated — earnout ceiling 12% to 15%

    7c92…48a3·prev 4b18…d201·verified

  5. 2026-04-22 · 11:05 · broker

    Round 1 offers locked — 4 buyers, matrix published

    4b18…d201·prev 1a07…e9bb·verified

  6. 2026-04-15 · 08:33 · Ashford Holdings

    LOI revision 01 submitted

    1a07…e9bb·prev a8f2…3c44·verified

  7. 2026-04-10 · 10:14 · broker

    QoE published — 5 categories, 18 findings

    a8f2…3c44·prev — genesis·verified


§ VIII·Beyond the LOI

The months and years after close.

Most deal management software stops at closing. Most deals don't. A deal with an earnout isn't really finished for a year, three years, or five. A deal with a seller note runs as long as the note.

Evenhand keeps the deal alive on the right surfaces, and only the right surfaces. The seller is retained as a post-close observer with read-only access to the earnout and seller-note tracker — they see every metric report the buyer files and every payment recorded, and nothing else. Every entry is hash-chained.

Earnout milestones · seller-note payments

Earnout milestone · Y1

disputed

Period
2025-Q4
Target
$5,200,000 revenue
Reported
$5,180,000seller disputed
Payment due
$420,000
Payment recorded
not yet

Seller note · Payment 7 of 60

Scheduled
2026-04-30
Scheduled amount
$18,400
Paid
2026-04-28
Actual amount
$18,400

The deals that came before this one.

Every deal your firm closes leaves behind a record. Evenhand reads it back to you in three places: a brokerage performance dashboard, a per-broker comparison (for managing partners), and a comparable-deals engine any broker can query from any active deal — same industry, same revenue band, same geography. None of this leaves your brokerage.

Brokerage performance · trailing 12 mo.

Deal velocity

64 d

exclusive → closed

Close rate

78%

trailing 12 months

Median fit-score

8.2

selected buyer

Comparable deals · 7 matches

Purchase price

Payment mix

Time to close

$3.8M

65 / 20 / 15

118 d

$4.2M

55 / 25 / 20

142 d

$5.1M

70 / 15 / 15

96 d

$4.5M

60 / 30 / 10

124 d


§ IX·Beyond a deal room

More than a deal room.

The marketplace deal room
Evenhand
File storage
Structured comparison of every offer against seller preferences
Replaces your VDR; locks you into theirs
Connects to Firmex, iDeals, Google Drive, or Dropbox — your choice per brokerage and per deal
One e-signature provider you didn't choose
Use the Dropbox Sign account included in your subscription, or connect your existing Dropbox Sign or DocuSign account
Milestone checklist
Structured process tracking with notifications to all parties
AI summarization on uploaded docs
Opinionated QoE framework with proof-of-cash reconciliation
Generic role-based access
Audit log, hash-chained offer history, immediate revocation on non-selection
Reuses seller data across their marketplace
Seller data stays inside your firm

Built for transparency and speed for everyone at the table: seller, buyer, and broker.


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