Deal Scout

A financial model can be internally consistent and still be wrong.

The formulas add up. The logic holds. The projections flow from the assumptions. The question is whether the assumptions have any basis in what the market actually does.

Deal Scout takes the growth assumptions inside your acquisition model and tests them against real sector data — not against what the management team believes, but against what comparable businesses in the same market have actually delivered.

The Problem With Internal Validation

Every management team believes their projections are reasonable.

A target company projects 20% revenue growth for the next four years. The management team can explain every assumption. The model is coherent. The story is compelling.

But the sector has been growing at 7 to 8% for the past three years. Comparable businesses with similar scale and market position have not crossed 12% in any recent period.

That gap is not visible inside the model. You need external data to see it.

Revenue Growth: Projected vs. Sector
Target projects
20%
Sector median
8%
Peer best
12%
+12pp above peer range
How Deal Scout Works

Sector benchmarking inside the due diligence workflow.

Deal Scout is powered by the Syfter integration — giving you access to real market data on comparable businesses in your target's sector.

①Upload the target's financial model
②Deal Scout identifies the key growth assumptions: revenue CAGR, margin expansion, market share projections
③These assumptions are benchmarked against actual performance data from comparable businesses in the sector
④Where projections diverge from peer performance, Deal Scout flags the gap and quantifies the variance
⑤The output sits alongside your Model Maestro audit — so formula-level and market-level validation are in one place
What It Surfaces

The gaps between the story and the sector.

Revenue growth
Target projects: 20% CAGR
Sector median: 8% CAGR
Variance: 12 percentage points above peer range
Margin expansion
Target projects: 600bps over 3 years
Sector average: 180bps
Variance: Structurally unlikely without identified driver
Market share
Target projects: +4pp in 24 months
No comparable achieved >1.5pp in same window
Variance: No precedent in sector data
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