How it works

DealScanner turns 236 scattered broker websites into one short morning briefing of businesses worth buying — filtered to your investment thesis. Here is the whole pipeline, end to end.

BrokersA curated list of 236 business-for-sale brokers is the raw supply. You manage it on the Brokers page — add, archive, or fix a source.

Daily scrapeEvery morning the engine visits each live broker, reads the new listings, and stores them once (deduped by URL) with their full text and financials.

Thesis filterYour thesis — keywords, size band, geography, exclusions — decides what qualifies. A cheap global filter drops the obvious misses (salons, restaurants) before any AI runs.

AI scoringWhere wording is fuzzy, a cheap model reads the listing and judges fit, with a reason. Answers are cached, so the same listing is never paid for twice.

Morning briefingYou get one email: the new deals that cleared your thesis in the last 24 hours, linked straight to the board. That email is also the engine's heartbeat.

You actOpen the Deals board, skim the qualifying deals, and shortlist the ones worth a call. Everything older is a keyword away on Search.

From noise to a shortlist

Most listings are not for you. Each stage narrows the pile so you only ever read the deals that fit — the rest stay searchable but out of your way.

236 brokers scanned

Thousands of listings stored

Global filter drops obvious misses

Your thesis: keywords · size · geography

A handful qualify each day

Coming soon: your votes sharpen it

Today a deal either clears the thesis or it doesn't — a binary keyword-and-size gate. Every yes / maybe / no you cast is saved with the deal's full context. That becomes the training set for an instinct model that learns the judgment calls behind your votes — ranking deals the way you would, not just matching words.

Two principles that keep it cheap and honest

The database is the brain. Every listing is stored once, thesis-neutrally. Your settings are a lens applied when you read — so changing a keyword re-ranks the whole board instantly and for free, with no re-scrape.

Spend is capped and visible. Only the cheapest model is used, every AI call is metered against a daily cap, and the Spend page shows exactly what each day cost versus what it found.