See the business behind the listing.

Loupe is a platform for people buying businesses. It brings listings from marketplaces and broker sites across the US, the UK, Europe, Australia, Canada and South Africa into one feed, sorted into standard fields so you can compare them.

Free guides, a valuation tool and a red flag screen help you judge a listing yourself. When a business looks worth pursuing, you can request a dossier: an analyst-verified report that checks what the listing leaves out, before you sign an NDA or pay an adviser. Loupe is not a business broker and takes no success fees.

Listings come from online marketplaces, broker networks and classified sites. Loupe collects them only in ways each source allows, such as official feeds, alert emails, file imports or permitted collection, and follows each source's terms.

Every listing is sorted into standard fields, classified by sector and business model, and checked for anomalies. A business listed on several sites appears once. Loupe writes its own short teaser rather than copying the seller's description or images, and marks the seller's figures "As listed", because Loupe has not checked them.

The valuation tool gives an indicative range, not a formal valuation. It looks up benchmark multiples for the business model and size, adjusts them for quality, applies them to the figures you enter and shows every step, with a confidence level, so you can check the working.

It can only be as good as those figures. The benchmarks lean on US and online marketplace data, so results for businesses elsewhere may carry a note saying so. For a larger or unusual business, or where a lender, tax or legal matter depends on the number, consider a formal valuation from a qualified valuer. The methodology page explains the method and its limits.

Without an account, you can read every guide, the red flag library, the glossary and the country primers, work through checklists on screen, and use the valuation tool and the red flag screen.

A free account adds the full feed, saved valuations and PDF reports, saved checklist progress and downloads, saved searches with alerts, and the weekly digest.

The only paid product is the dossier, which is priced on request for each business. You can create a free account at any time.

A full dossier has ten sections: a summary; the business; financials, as listed and normalised; valuation and structure; verification against public records; market and competition; risks and red flags; fit against your criteria; questions for the seller with a checklist for the next stage of diligence; and sources and method.

Every finding carries its source, the date it was checked and a confidence label: Verified, As listed or Estimated. A Snapshot covers less, and a Custom scope adds your own questions. What's in a dossier walks through each section, and the sample dossier shows one on a fictional business.

Every dossier is priced on request, because no two businesses need the same work. The price depends mainly on the depth of the scope, the jurisdictions involved, the complexity of the business and how quickly you need it.

You request a dossier from a listing and add any questions. Loupe sends a quote showing the price, currency, tax treatment, scope and turnaround, with an expiry date. If you accept, Loupe completes the purchase and issues an invoice with payment instructions. Asking for a quote is free, and you can decline it or let it expire.

A dossier is built from public records, the listing data and the questions agreed with you when the request is scoped. It does not depend on the seller taking part, and Loupe does not promise that a seller or broker will be approached or will supply documents. If you already hold documents from the seller and are allowed to share them, you can offer them in the request thread.

The dossier gives you questions to put to the seller yourself and a checklist for the next stage of diligence. Where a question could only be answered by the seller, that is raised in the request thread while the scope is agreed.

Yes. Your requests, questions, messages, invoices and dossiers are private to your account. Loupe shares them only with the staff who need them for the work and the service providers named in the privacy policy. Loupe does not tell a seller or broker that you are interested in their business unless you ask it to.

Files are kept in private storage and opened through links that expire after a short time, every view and download of a dossier is logged, and staff accounts use two-factor authentication. The privacy policy explains what personal data Loupe holds and why.

Loupe tracks businesses for sale in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, Canada and South Africa. The home page shows live counts of the listings and sources tracked in each region, and you can request a dossier on any business in the feed.

Public records differ from country to country, so what a registry check can confirm varies. Each dossier records what was checked, where and the result. The country primers explain how buying a business typically works in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada and South Africa.