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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Your file is read to build the report, then discarded. We keep the report, not the document.
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 is 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
Brands in the library
Breadth to browse with, before you have a document in hand
SBA 7(a) default rates by brand
Loan outcomes on brands already financed. We do not publish these yet
Real unit economics
A fee-by-fee ladder off the disclosed figures, not revenue times a sector margin
Item 19, apples-to-apples
Names the cohort and how many units reported it, and separates franchised from company-owned
Scored against your capital
Your gap and your loan need, not a generic document score
States no figure when the math will not support one
A refusal is a finding. Nothing gets filled in with an estimate
Disclosed vs. estimated
Every number tagged, so you know fact from model
Franchisor financial health
Going-concern, deficit, runway, severity-graded
The method is published
Every calculation is shown on the page that uses it, with its limitations
Who to call, and what to ask
The franchisee groups worth an afternoon, and the question that opens each
FranchiseIQ column measured September 22, 2026 from fddiq.com pages that require no login and from their published API documentation. “Not checked” means exactly that: we did not verify it, and we are not going to guess on a competitor's behalf. Their product changes; if something here is out of date, tell us and we will re-measure.
Built by someone who has done both sides — a franchise operator who runs a unit, and a private-equity diligence pro who has underwritten the deals. The read you get is the one they would 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.