INDEPENDENT BY DESIGN
Business value should not begin with a sales call.
businessvaluation.fyi is an independent valuation-data project for private-business owners. It turns reported transaction evidence into useful benchmarks, tools, and plain-language explanations before asking anyone to create an account.
A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER
Why I built this
I kept finding the same problem: owners had to choose between generic multiple tables, opaque calculators, expensive databases, and forms designed to turn curiosity into a brokerage lead.
I wanted a different starting point—one where the useful numbers come first, their sources remain attached, and a company's private details stay private. The goal is not to tell every owner that one multiple is “the answer.” It is to show how industry, earnings definition, company size, buyer universe, and deal terms change the evidence.
This project is not a brokerage lead form. It does not sell an owner's profile, expose an individual transaction, or use confidential submissions as public content. The product should earn trust by making its methods inspectable and getting more accurate as owners contribute safe context.
— Founder, businessvaluation.fyi
THE OPERATING STANDARD
Credibility is a product feature.
Source before story
Every public benchmark keeps its source, period, metric, and market scope attached. Conflicting sources stay separate instead of being blended into false precision.
Aggregate before publish
Protected transaction data is sanitized, cohort-thresholded, and shown as grouped evidence. Names, exact deal rows, identifiers, and confidential details remain hidden.
Corrections stay visible
When a source changes or a method improves, the page date and explanation should change with it. The standard is reproducible evidence, not an unchallengeable number.
START WITH THE MARKET
See how value changes from Main Street to the middle market.
Compare nine public size tiers, then use the matching earnings metric to build a private company-specific valuation.