If you’re a small business owner, you’re used to private equity firms wasting your time. We flipped that power dynamic: 100 firms compete to buy you. And yes, we send them custom Wall Street-grade decks—on Day 1—because our AI builds them overnight.

A small private school in Arizona got a 40% higher sale price—because we had 100 buyers competing instead of 1.

No AI pitch. No tech jargon. Just real competitive tension and deal certainty.

This isn’t about software. It’s about outcomes that change lives.

Legacy bankers: grind 80-hour weeks for maybe a shot at client access in 6 years.

Our bankers: talk to clients on day one, build deals with AI, pocket $2M bonuses.

Welcome to the meritocracy Wall Street forgot to build.

900 banker applications in 36 hours. Why? Because the best dealmakers are done pretending Excel models are the hard part. We built OffDeal so they can focus on what matters: client trust, negotiations, outcomes. It's AI-first where it counts—and human where it matters.

If you're a small business owner and you've ever talked to a private equity firm, you probably got the same generic pitch. But imagine this instead: you show up to your first meeting and they already built a Wall Street-grade deck on your business. Charts. Buyer targets. Valuation comps. Down to the last detail. And it didn't take weeks of analysts grinding—an AI did the whole thing overnight.

This isn’t about automating for the sake of efficiency. It's about reshaping access. Bringing the full weight of institutional tools to businesses that were never considered 'deal size.' 

AI is making markets more liquid in places that were completely dry. That looks a lot like economic infrastructure to us.

A private school in Arizona hired us to sell their business.

The first offer came in. Seemed fair enough. But instead of running with it, we did what bankers do for billion-dollar companies: we created a bidding war.

We used AI to map hundreds of potential buyers, reach out to multiple decision-makers inside each firm, and keep the entire process moving without bottlenecks. Competitive tension increased. Fast.

The final deal closed 40% above the original offer.

This isn't about AI for the sake of AI. It's about executing a methodology that's been working for decades in big M&A—and making that same playbook finally accessible to main street operators.

The outcome? Life-changing capital for an owner whose entire retirement was tied up in this single sale.

Most business brokers win before they even do the job. Flat fees. Non-refundable retainers. Misaligned from day one.

OffDeal flipped the model. We make 5% only when the deal closes. That’s it. If our valuation expectations are off or we underdeliver, you pay us nothing. Alignment isn’t a slogan. It’s literally the business model.

More importantly, our bankers make 20% of that fee. On million-dollar mandates, that’s a $200K real-cash payout. Some are on track to do 10 deals a year.

Why would a 29-year-old Goldman alum spend 6 years formatting pitch decks for a shot at optionality when they could be sourcing and closing real deals, talking to clients day one, and making 7 figures?

The path is clear. The structure is new. And incentives are as real as they come.

900 applications in 36 hours. For an investment banking role.

This is what happens when you give talented people leverage. At OffDeal, we’re not automating away bankers — we’re giving them a better environment to do the parts of the job that actually matter: negotiation, relationships, and judgment. No time wasted formatting CIMs or chasing NDAs. Instead, they get to focus on helping entrepreneurs make the most important decision of their lives.

It turns out there’s massive demand for that. From clients and candidates alike. We’re building an AI-first investment bank — and our inbox is proof that this is where the future is headed.

In private equity, competitive tension is everything. When multiple buyers believe they’re bidding against serious competition, the price inevitably moves in one direction: up. At OffDeal, we’ve engineered that phenomenon using AI. Here’s how:

Most business sales under $10M in EBITDA are under-marketed. Sellers often go it alone or work with a broker who runs a basic listing process. That means maybe two or three buyers look at the deal—and often one offers a lowball number and wins by default. That’s not market value. That’s information asymmetry masquerading as a fair deal.

By contrast, we use AI to simulate the kind of competitive tension large PE firms create when they hire sell-side bankers. That means identifying and contacting every relevant buyer segment, including ones a human deal team would never have time to reach. For example: five to six touchpoints per firm across hundreds of firms and sectors. The result? More conversations, more informed offers, and real price discovery.

Case in point: we recently sold a private school in Arizona. The first offer came in at a standard valuation. But after we activated our AI-run buyer discovery engine, the final accepted offer was 40 percent higher. Same company, sharper process, completely different outcome. For the owner, that was life-changing capital he wouldn’t have captured through a traditional path.

This is the promise of AI in investment banking—less about “doing work faster” and more about outcomes. Higher certainty. More bidders. Better pricing. And a transformed experience for small business owners aiming to secure the exits they deserve.

Most founders never see this side of AI. It’s not about chatbots or code. It’s about giving the local business owner the smartest digital coworker on the planet. Overnight, it builds Wall Street-grade pitch decks, scans millions of buyer records, drafts personalized messages, and tees up the right connections—before your morning coffee hits the desk. That first meeting with us? It feels like we’ve already known your business for months. Because the AI did.

You know what happens when 100 private equity firms compete to buy one business? Prices go up fast. We’re not replacing analysts. We’re creating competitive tension at scale. One private school got a 40% higher offer at close than the first bid. That’s the kind of outcome AI makes possible, not because it cuts corners, but because it finds every qualified buyer and pushes them to the table. This isn’t about faster memos. It’s about maximizing life-changing value for people whose entire net worth is on the line.

A 28-year-old ex-Goldman banker making $2M bonuses, negotiating deals directly with buyers, and doing it all on a success-only structure? This isn’t Wall Street. This is OffDeal. A total rewire of investment banking where performance speaks, not pedigree. If you're still grinding pitch decks at midnight for minimum wage while dreaming of the buy-side, this is your wake-up call.

900 banker applications in 36 hours. No ads. No recruiters. Just the idea of rethinking an entire industry. This isn’t a job post, it’s a signal. When builders and dealmakers line up this fast, you’re not hiring — you’re hitting a nerve. Every generation gets one chance to redefine how the economy works. This is what ours looks like.

Most small business owners get ghosted in M&A. We flipped it. Imagine showing up to a first meeting and seeing a full 30-page deck already built for your business. Every buyer lined up. Multiples nailed. Comps locked. All done by AI, overnight. That moment? Owner’s jaw hits the floor. That’s how you get the second, third, fourth meeting.

One school owner got a 40% higher offer—only because we made 100 buyers fight for it. That’s what real competition looks like. AI doesn’t just help your process, it changes your outcome. In small business M&A, that could mean millions.

Private school sells for 40% above first offer. Why? Because OffDeal runs deals like private equity firms do it at the top. Competitive tension, success-only fee model, and all the upside goes to the seller. Meanwhile, bankers are skipping the grind and getting paid actual money: $200K per deal, $2M bonuses. Try finding that path at Goldman.

900 applications in 36 hours. No paid ads. Just one job posting, and suddenly the top bankers are flooding in. Why? Because we’re offering something Wall Street can’t: actual dealmaking, not just Excel gymnastics. The pitch is simple — do the real work, not the paperwork. If this many dealmakers are jumping ship to build here, imagine what comes next.

This is what happens when you give Wall Street tools to small business owners. Instead of waiting weeks for a banker to make their deck, they show up to the first meeting with a polished buyer list, comps, pricing ranges, even the PE firms who already invest in your vertical. And it’s not interns doing all-nighters. It’s AI, running overnight scans, designing decks, writing outreach. It’s like you plugged a junior M&A team into a roofing company. That’s the pitch. And it works.

Most small business owners have no idea their company could be worth millions more. One school sold for 40% above its first offer because AI opened the floodgates—contacting way more buyers than any human team ever could. This is how you flip the script on private equity: make them fight to win you, not the other way around.

Why are junior bankers working 80-hour weeks just to make minimum wage? At OffDeal, they’re making $200K+ per deal and talking to clients from day one. No PowerPoint prison, no logo crunching for six years. Just real skills, earned fast. This is how closing deals is actually meant to look in 2024.

Begin with the spike: 900 banker applications in 36 hours. Then zoom out to why that matters — the pitch that flipped the script on traditional investment banking. Not Excel, not grunt work. Real negotiations, human advice, business owners making huge calls, and bankers actually being dealmakers. The meat of this clip lives in the shift: software does the repetition, humans do the decisions. End with the final twist — why this model might unlock a massive, overlooked market of 'subscale' businesses. It’s about making small businesses exit-ready at scale, without losing the human judgment they need most.