Free · no account required
Resources
Guides and calculators an owner, a buyer, a broker, or their agent can use without listing anything. Every page is educational, cited, printable, and available as markdown and JSON. NewHands does not invent statistics or firms.
How this is paid, what the badges mean, and the citations policy
Owners
Worth, readiness, and the year before a buyer walks in. Free to use. Nothing here is saved unless you ask.
- What is my business worth?
- Exit readiness score
- Turnkey Ready path
- Add-back worksheet
- Main Street report
Add-back worksheet
How seller's discretionary earnings are built, line by line.
Asset sale or stock sale
The tax shape of the deal, in plain language, with the forms to read.
Confidentiality before you share the numbers
What to show in a teaser, and what waits for an NDA.
Employees, ESOPs, and family transitions
Options that are not a sale to a stranger, with the official places to read the rules.
Exit readiness for retiring owners
A succession checklist for owners who have run the company for decades.
How to draft a CIM
What a confidential information memorandum is, and what the generator will and will not write.
How to pick and interview a broker
Questions to ask, and the shapes a fee can take, without a recommended percent.
Reduce owner dependence before you sell
A playbook for the year the business has to run a week without you.
Sell in 12 months
A month-by-month timeline for an owner who wants to be done in a year.
Succession planning for retiring owners
Family, employees, or a sale to an outsider — the choice is the plan.
Turnkey Ready, the seller badge
What verified financials, a clean diligence file, and a transition plan mean on NewHands.
Buyers
A buy box, a deal you can model, and the questions that should slow you down.
Acquisition playbook
How a searcher moves from criteria to close in New England, without pretending the steps are legal advice.
Buyer readiness before the first call
The proof, the criteria, and the people a buyer needs before an offer is worth a seller's time.
Diligence checklists by industry
Questions that change by trade, on top of the standard deal-room list.
First 100 days after closing
An owner-transition plan for the season after you buy.
First-time buyer course
Six short modules for someone buying a company for the first time.
How a small-business price gets paid
Buyer cash, an SBA loan, a seller note, a contingent earnout, and an equity roll — what each piece is, and what this site will not decide.
IOI and LOI templates
What an indication of interest is, and what a letter of intent should not pretend to be.
Quality of earnings, explained
What a QoE review is for, without inventing what one costs.
Red flags in a small-business deal
What to slow down for, before you write a letter of intent.
SBA 7(a) for acquisitions
What the 7(a) program is for, and what NewHands will not decide for you.
Search funds and entrepreneurship through acquisition
What a search fund is, without borrowing someone else's performance numbers.
Brokers
A feed you have rights to, a teaser draft, and an estimator you can put on your own site.
Agents
The same guides as markdown and JSON, plus versioned calculators and a code of conduct.
Shared
Changelog
What changed in the product, in the order it shipped.
Deal stages
What each step from teaser to close is for.
Editorial standards and citations
What NewHands will and will not put in a guide or a market figure.
Glossary
The words Main Street deals actually use.
How NewHands is paid
What this deployment charges, and what it does not sell.
New England rules of the road
Licenses, transfer taxes, and bulk sales — where to check, not what to assume.
The working-capital peg
Why closing price moves with inventory, receivables, and payables, and why there is no official typical peg.
What the badges mean
Turnkey Ready, a verified directory profile, and proof of funds — what is checked, and what is not.