Businesses for Sale Lab guide

Start with the sample

Open the sample: 150 generated listings in 10 industries and 10 states. It works offline and fills every view except Density, which needs Census rows.

Save a search and run it

Save a search, then run it. The Lab shows the request count and time at the site's pace, which is one page every few seconds. If a site blocks the plain request, switch on the Labs source in Clipper and run again. Pages that loaded are saved even if some failed.

The five views

• Price vs cash flow: one dot per listing, asking price against cash flow, sized by revenue and coloured by multiple band. Lasso a set to compare its median multiple with everything in view.
• Where: industries against regions, as listing counts or median multiple. Cells with too few listings stay blank.
• Density: Census counts of business locations next to your saved listings, by state, with an under-served hint where establishments are many and listings are few. It needs your free Census key from Settings, stored encrypted on your computer and never shown to the AI.
• Changes: for a saved search, new listings, price drops from first to latest asking price, and listings no longer in results.
• Listings: the table with every parsed field. Open a listing for its price history, pin it, or open the original.

Honest limits

• Asking prices, not sale prices. Multiples use the seller's own figures.
• There is no population in the Census data, so nothing is per capita. The Lab shows listings per 1,000 establishments.
• Listings with no disclosed price or earnings are left out of the chart and counted.
• Under-served is a hint, not a verdict.

Pin, watch and ask

Pin a listing to the evidence board as a buy instead of build card, labelled as an asking price. Turn on the weekly re-check for a search (only while Desktop is open). Every action is an MCP tool: see the Businesses for Sale Lab group in the tools reference.