Deal activity
What's moving, what's not, and what that might mean for buyers, sellers, and advisors.
About the Publication
Industry intelligence for people close to real SMB deals.
SMB Deal Weekly covers the signals that matter when buying, financing, operating, advising, or selling small and lower-middle-market businesses.
Inspired heavily by communities like Searchfunder, where the real deal knowledge actually lives in the comments, the DMs, and the hard-won lessons people share between deals.
We try to make that knowledge a little more findable, organized, and useful for people trying to understand what is actually happening in the SMB market.
We're not consultants. We're not selling you a course on how to find your first acquisition. We don't have a 47-step framework or a proprietary deal sourcing methodology that costs $2,500 to unlock.
We're just obsessively curious about what's actually happening in the SMB market and committed to writing it up in plain English, every week, without the fluff.
SBA & financing
The lending environment in plain language. No banker jargon.
Operator insights
What people actually running businesses are seeing on the ground.
Lower middle market
The $1M-$10M EBITDA world that most publications completely ignore.
What we cover
Weekly issues combine current SMB market signals, NAICS-level industry context, government data, operator commentary, and practical diligence questions.
- Manufacturing, industrial services, distribution, labor, lending, valuation, and working capital.
- Operator-level interpretation rather than generic market rewrites.
- Templates and prompts readers can use in real diligence conversations.
Editorial stance
The goal is to be useful before being loud: fewer broad takes, more specific questions, cleaner sourcing, and more attention to what changes in underwriting.