Kingdom Broker | Investor Pitch Deck

The Smarter Way to Buy
or Sell a Business

Experienced advisors. Intelligent deal matching. A structured process that connects business owners with serious, qualified buyers faster and at a fraction of traditional broker costs.

Confidential · Eric Skeldon, Founder · Eric@KingdomBroker.com

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Market Shift

The Great Ownership Transfer
is happening now

$10T+

U.S. Small Business Wealth at Stake

Over the next decade, 10 15 million Baby Boomer business owners will seek to exit. The capital transfer is unprecedented in modern history.

5M+

Businesses Seeking Exit in Next 10 Years

Yet 80% will fail to sell. The infrastructure to facilitate these transactions efficiently simply does not exist. Until now.

10%

Traditional Close Rate

Legacy brokerage closes 1-in-10 deals listed. Misaligned incentives, paper processes, and zero data infrastructure are the root cause.

12 18mo avg

Time-to-Close Without Technology

Manual deal matching, phone-tag diligence, and broker spreadsheets extend timelines and destroy deal value at every step.

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The Problem

A $10T Market Running on
Spreadsheets and Phone Calls

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80%

Deals Never Close

Most listings expire without a buyer. Poor matching, unqualified buyers, and advisor misalignment kill deals before they start.

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8 12%

Legacy Broker Fees

Traditional M&A brokers charge 8 12% success fees with no performance accountability and zero technology leverage.

🔍

Zero

Deal Intelligence

No centralized data layer. Buyers fly blind. Sellers have no benchmark pricing. No AI, no analytics, no intelligence.

🐢

12 18mo

Transaction Timelines

From listing to close averages over a year. Manual diligence, siloed advisors, and fragmented communication throttle velocity.

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$4T+

Businesses Dying Unlisted

Owners close their doors instead of selling because the process is too painful. Wealth evaporates. Communities lose.

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No Match

Buyer Seller Misalignment

Buyers waste months on unfit deals. Sellers waste months on unqualified buyers. No intelligence layer to fix this until now.

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Core Insight

This isn't a brokerage problem.
It's a data and intelligence problem.

Every failed deal leaves a data trail. Every successful acquisition creates a replicable pattern. The market has never had a platform to learn from those patterns until AI made it possible.

Legacy Model

Phone-based deal sourcing

Manual buyer qualification

Gut-feel pricing

Siloed advisors

No close-rate feedback

→

Kingdom Broker

Intelligent deal matching

Structured buyer qualification

Comp-based valuation process

Unified platform for all parties

Precision that sharpens with every deal

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The Solution

One Platform.
Every Party. Every Deal.

01

Intelligent Deal Matching

Proprietary AI matches buyers and sellers based on financial fit, industry, risk profile, and acquisition thesis not just geography or listing price.

02

Automated Valuation Engine

Real-time comp analysis powered by $500M+ in proprietary transaction data. Sellers get market-accurate pricing. Buyers get defensible entry points.

03

Deal Pipeline Intelligence

Our team monitors every deal's health, surfaces risks before they kill transactions, and recommends next steps reducing average time-to-close from 12 18 months to 60 120 days. Twice the speed.

04

Advisor Network OS

Attorneys, accountants, and lenders operate in one coordinated deal room eliminating the siloed communication that stalls 60% of transactions in legacy processes.

05

Buyer Qualification Engine

Automated financial verification, intent scoring, and SBA pre-qualification gives sellers confidence every buyer at the table is real and ready.

06

Transaction Intelligence Layer

Every deal close enriches the model. Network effects compound over time making KingdomBroker smarter, faster, and more valuable with each transaction.

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Product

The Smarter Way
to Buy or Sell a Business

KingdomBroker.com Deal Intelligence

Active Deal HVAC Services Co.

TTM Revenue$2.4M

EBITDA$580K

EBITDA Margin24.2%

Ask Price$3.2M

EV / EBITDA5.5×

Deal StageLOI Signed

Days on Platform47

AI Match Score94 / 100

AI Intelligence Layer

Comp Range (EV/EBITDA)4.8× 6.2×

Fair Value Estimate$3.0M $3.5M

Buyer QualificationVerified

SBA 7(a) EligibleYes

Deal Risk ScoreLow

Predicted Close67 days

Similar Closed Deals23

Advisor StatusAll Active

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Technology

A Coordinated Deal Platform
Working for Every Party

The Deal Intelligence Network

Business Analysis Buyer Matching Deal Structuring Transaction Workflow

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Why Now

Four Forces Converging
at This Exact Moment

1

Technology That Finally Serves This Market

Sophisticated business analysis tools can now process deal documents, financial statements, and buyer profiles with a level of depth and speed that enables real deal intelligence not just search filters.

2

Boomer Exit Wave Peak Years Are Now

The 10-year window of peak small business exits has begun. 2024 2030 represents the highest-volume transfer period in U.S. history. Speed and precision of execution are the defining competitive advantages.

3

Rise of the Search Fund & SMB Acquirer

A new generation of sophisticated acquirers PE-backed search funds, solo operators, and family offices are actively hunting quality SMB deals. Demand has never been higher. Supply infrastructure has never been weaker.

4

SBA Lending at Record Highs

SBA 7(a) loan volume hit record highs in 2023 2024, reducing capital friction for qualified buyers. A platform that connects pre-qualified buyers with sellers instantly is the missing infrastructure layer.

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Business Model

Platform Revenue.
Multiple Streams. No Conflicts.

Stream 01

Transaction Success Fee

3 5% success fee on closed deals a fraction of the legacy 8 12% broker commission. Competitive advantage enables faster adoption while maintaining strong unit economics at scale.

3 5% on close

Stream 02

Platform Subscription

Monthly SaaS access for active buyers, seller agents, and advisory firms. Tiered plans unlock AI match prioritization, valuation reports, and pipeline analytics.

$299 $999/mo

Stream 03

Lender & Advisor Referral

Structured referral partnerships with SBA lenders, attorneys, and accountants who pay for qualified deal introductions. Zero-conflict model we route to best-fit, not highest bid.

Revenue share

Stream 04

Deal Intelligence API

Proprietary transaction data and valuation models licensed to PE firms, search fund accelerators, and financial institutions. High-margin, recurring, platform-agnostic revenue.

Enterprise license

$2.5M

Avg deal size (platform)

$50K

Avg revenue per deal (2%)

$420K

Yr 1 SMB subscriptions (35 @ $999/mo)

$960K

Yr 2 enterprise + subscription ARR

$25M

Yr 3 projected ARR (deals + SaaS)

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Market Opportunity

A $100B+ Market
With No Dominant Platform

TAM

U.S. Small Business M&A Transaction Market

$100B+

SAM

Tech-Enabled Deal Platform Segment

$30B

SOM

$2.5B

10 15M

Businesses in exit window

Zero

AI-native dominant player today

$500B+

Total capital changing hands

3 5%

Our fee vs. 8 12% legacy brokers

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Market Focus

We Specialize in Businesses
Built to Last Generations

Physical, licensed, and local. The most defensible cash flows in America businesses that have served their communities for decades and are exactly what serious buyers want.

HVAC

Roofing

Waste Management

Manufacturing

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Trades & Mechanical

HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical, Fire Suppression

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Specialty Contracting

Roofing, Concrete, Excavation, Crane & Rigging

🧹

Facility & Cleaning

Industrial Cleaning, Commercial Laundry

♻️

Waste & Environmental

Septic, Grease Trap, Wastewater Infrastructure

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Automotive Services

Fleet Maintenance, Auto Repair, Body Shops

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Healthcare Practices

Dental, Veterinary

❄️

Food & Cold Chain

Refrigerated logistics, specialty food distribution

⚙️

Specialty Manufacturing

Fabrication, Machining, Defense Supply Chain

✈️

Aviation & MRO

FBOs, Aircraft Maintenance, Parts Distribution

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Physical Security

Guarding, Armored Transport, Secure Infrastructure

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Celebrating Life

Funeral Homes, Cemeteries, Memorial Services

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Municipal Infrastructure

Water, Utilities, Public Works Contracting

These businesses require real people, real licenses, and real community trust built over decades, not deployed overnight.

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Defensibility

Platform Monopoly.
Not Just Software.

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Proprietary Deal Data

$500M+ in closed transaction data trains valuation and match models. Data compounds with each deal. Competitors can't buy this moat they'd have to operate for 20 years to build it.

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Multi-sided Network Lock-in

Buyers, sellers, lenders, and advisors all operate in one deal room. Switching costs are extreme every party has deal history, documents, and relationships embedded in the platform.

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AI Model Compounding

Each new deal improves match accuracy and valuation precision. Accuracy gap vs. new entrants grows wider with every transaction the model is a flywheel that cannot be replicated at launch.

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Speed Advantage

2× faster time-to-close vs. traditional brokerage. We close deals in 60 120 days on average vs. 12 18 months elsewhere a meaningful advantage sellers don't walk away from.

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Price Disruption

3 5% vs. legacy 8 12% creates instant market pull. Sellers save $30K $90K+ vs. a traditional broker on the same deal. That delta is impossible for incumbents to match without destroying their own business model.

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Trust Infrastructure

Verified financials, qualified buyers, and AI-driven deal health scoring creates a trust layer that no phone-based broker can match. Trust is the ultimate retention mechanism in M&A.

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Go-to-Market

Deliberate Market Capture.
Land. Expand. Dominate.

Year 1

Foundation & First Deals

Seed-funded build-out. Onboard first 100 qualified sellers and 1,000 verified buyers across 3 target metros. Close first 25 deals. Establish $500M data layer baseline. $1M ARR run rate.

Year 2

Regional Expansion & Network Density

Expand to 10 target metros. Launch advisor partner network (SBA lenders, M&A attorneys, CPAs). Introduce subscription tier. Target $7M ARR run rate.

Year 3

National Platform & Data API Launch

National coverage. Launch Deal Intelligence API for institutional clients. Introduce enterprise subscriptions for PE firms and search fund operators. Target $25M ARR.

Year 5+

Category Dominance & Series B

Become the default infrastructure layer for U.S. small business M&A. $100M+ ARR. IPO-ready or strategic acquisition target for major financial infrastructure platforms.

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Long-Term Vision

We are building the financial operating system
for the transfer of American business ownership.

Ten years from now, every small business acquisition in America will flow through KingdomBroker.com from first match to final close. The operating system for buying and selling businesses. The trusted platform for owners, buyers, and advisors. All in one place.

$10T

Total wealth in transition

1platform

To own the category

0

Dominant AI-native competitors

Now

The window is open

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The Ask

$1,000,000

Seed Round · Pre-Money Valuation to be discussed

30%

Marketing & First Deals

Targeted outreach to business owners ready to exit. Land the first 10 20 listings on platform and drive qualified buyer introductions.

25%

Platform & Deal Intelligence

Build and refine the matching engine, deal workflow tools, and specialist processes that power every transaction.

25%

Sales Team & Podcast

Hire one additional sales advisor to source and close seller relationships. Launch the Kingdom Broker podcast to build authority and inbound trust.

20%

Operations & Executive Support

Executive assistant to scale founder capacity, legal and compliance infrastructure, and operating runway through first closed deals.

Target Close: Q2 2026

Instrument: SAFE or Priced Round

Lead Check: $250K+

Board Seat: Available for lead

Prior Raise: Bootstrapped

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The Team

Built by operators.
Advised by proven builders.

Founder & CEO

Eric Skeldon

2-Comma Club award winner. Podcast host. 2 exits. Built 3 companies to seven figures within the first 12 months each. M&A advisor with a technology background purpose-built to multiply this opportunity.