Franchise Edge
Know if this franchise will actually make you money.
Upload the franchise's — the disclosure document every franchisor must give you — and tell us what you can put toward opening. In minutes you get a scored diligence read: real unit economics, hidden fees, and the franchisor's financial health, measured against your own capital.
The cash you have for the build-out — the one number we measure the whole deal against.
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What you get
Not just what's in the document — whether the deal works for you.
Most FDD tools answer the lawyer's question: what's buried in the legal language. This one answers the operator's: can you afford it, and will the unit make money.
Reads all 23 items, in plain English
Red flags and a risk score
Every figure cited to its Item and page
Scored against your capital
Your gap and your loan need — not a generic document score
Real unit economics
True operating margin, not just what the FDD chose to disclose
Item 19, apples-to-apples
Isolates franchised units from company- and affiliate-owned
Franchisor financial health
Going-concern, deficit, runway — severity-graded
Disclosed vs. estimated
Every number tagged, so you know fact from model
Who to call, and what to ask
The franchisee groups worth an afternoon, and the question that opens each
Built by someone who's done both sides — a franchise operator who runs a unit, and a private-equity diligence pro who's underwritten the deals. The read you get is the one they'd run on their own money.
Informational only — not legal, financial, or investment advice. Figures are extracted by an AI model and may contain errors; verify against the source FDD and a qualified advisor before making any decision.