Would you pay for a smarter way to model SMB deals?

June 04, 2025
by a professional from University of Toronto in Toronto, ON, Canada
Searchers: curious if this is actually a big enough problem.
When you’re doing a first-pass on a deal:
Are you building models from scratch?
Using templates?
Or just back-of-the-envelope math?
And more importantly — is this painful enough that you'd pay for a tool that helps you build a cleaner, faster, more defensible model?
I’m a former searcher, now building something in this space — but before going further, I want to validate if the pain is real and urgent enough to spend on.
Would love to hear what you're using today and whether the current process actually works for you.
Open to quick chats — redacted
from Mount Allison University in Calgary, AB, Canada