Screened
in minutes.
AI-powered deal screening for anyone evaluating a business to buy. Upload a CIM or financial summary, or paste deal details, and receive a scored deal card with industry research, red flags, and a deal memo. The 45 minutes you spent on a single CIM now takes about 5.
How the screen works →worth a closer look
Illustrative example, not a real company.
From listing to scored deal, in three steps.
Upload or paste
deal information
Drop a PDF, spreadsheet, or financials, or paste deal details from a call, broker email, or listing, and run Turnstone.
Screen deal using our proprietary framework
Extracts financials, scores 15 qualitative factors across three pillars, flags risks, and researches the industry live.
Review the deal
& decide
Get a scored deal card, industry analysis, and valuation context. Decide to pass or pursue a deal in minutes.
Everything you need to screen smarter.
Purpose-built for business buyers. From your first listing on BizBuySell to your hundredth proprietary deal.
15 factors.
3 pillars. One score you can defend.
Each factor is rated 1–5 with confidence tags and rationale. The same framework runs on every deal in your pipeline, giving you a clean way to assess deal quality across industries.
Document analysis
CIMs, teasers, broker packages. PDF, Excel, or pasted text.
Red flag
detection
Surfaces issues before you waste a full day or week on a deal.
Live industry research
Market size, multiples, competitive dynamics, regulatory risk — pulled for every deal's sector.
Deal pipeline tracking
Every deal from initial screen through LOI. Sort by score, filter by stage, compare side-by-side.
LBO & equity waterfall: adjust assumptions and see returns instantly.
Model SBA-backed buyouts and equity distributions on every deal. Senior debt, seller notes, earn-outs, sensitivity tables.
Simple. Transparent.
Start free. Upgrade when you're ready to screen at scale.
For your first deals.
7 lifetime screens · no card required
- 7 deal screens
- File upload & text screening
- Full pipeline access
- LBO & waterfall models
For active searchers.
Intro rate for 3 months, then $24.99/mo. Renews monthly; cancel anytime. No partial-month refunds.
- Screen as many deals as you need
- Deal chat & document room
- Deal memo PDF export
- Email ingestion (coming soon)
- Shareable links & deal memos
- Settings & customization
Frequently asked.
AI deal screening uses artificial intelligence to analyze business acquisition documents (CIMs, financial summaries, and broker listings) and produce a scored deal card with red flags, industry research, and a screening verdict (a signal, not investment advice) in minutes instead of the hours it takes manually.
Turnstone extracts financial data from your uploaded document, scores the deal across 15 qualitative factors grouped into three pillars (Revenue Quality, Operating Model, and Return Levers), flags risks like customer concentration or declining revenue, and researches the industry, all automatically, typically in 2 to 5 minutes.
Most deals are fully screened in 2 to 5 minutes, whether you upload documents or paste deal details. Manual screening of the same deal typically takes 45 minutes to an hour.
PDFs (CIMs, teasers, broker packages), Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, CSV files, and images. You can also type or paste deal details directly — notes from a call with the owner, a broker email, or listing text — and Turnstone will screen from that.
A free Introductory tier with 7 lifetime deal screens, no credit card required. The Pro plan starts at $9.99/month plus $0.50 per screen for the first 3 months, then $24.99/month plus $0.50 per screen. Pro renews monthly until you cancel.
Every request made on your behalf runs as a restricted database role that PostgreSQL row-level security limits to your own data. Sign-in is handled by Auth0, files are kept in private, encrypted storage, and everything is encrypted in transit. Documents are analyzed through Anthropic's API, which doesn't train on your data and deletes it within 30 days. See our security practices page for full details.
Anyone evaluating a business to buy: search fund entrepreneurs working through high deal volume, independent sponsors reviewing broker deal flow, first-time buyers on BizBuySell or Flippa, and M&A advisors managing client pipelines. If you're reading CIMs, Turnstone saves you time.
Manual screening means reading a 30-page CIM, building a spreadsheet, researching the industry, and forming a view, typically 45 minutes per deal. Turnstone automates all of this with consistent methodology across every deal in your pipeline.
Pro renews monthly until you cancel. Cancel anytime in Settings → Manage Subscription; Pro stays active until the end of the period you've paid for, then your account returns to the free tier with your deals intact. Payments aren't refunded, including partial months and per-screen charges. Full details are in our Terms.
Free weekly publication. Deal teardowns, in your inbox.
Every week we screen a real, publicly listed business on Turnstone Insights. See exactly how the scoring works, where the red flags hide, and whether we'd recommend advancing to diligence — before you sign up.
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