Diligence Benchmarks
Primary-sourced benchmarks for searchers and franchise buyers, each built from the original filing.
The benchmarks
FDD Item 7 Investment Benchmark: 46 Franchise Disclosure Documents Compared
What total investment ranges look like across current franchise systems, pulled straight from the Item 7 tables so you can see where one brand sits against its peers.
Read the benchmark →SBA Seller-Note Standby Rules: Every Buyer Scenario
When the SBA requires a seller note to stand by, for how long, and how it counts toward equity, mapped across the buyer scenarios you hit in an acquisition.
Read the benchmark →Commercial Lease Red Flags: 91 Clauses from the ABA Model Lease, Trap by Trap
The clauses that shift cost and risk onto the tenant, worked through one at a time against the model lease so you know which terms to push back on.
Read the benchmark →APA Indemnity Risk Map: 9 Indemnification Terms Benchmarked to the 2025 ABA Study
How indemnification terms in an asset purchase agreement compare to market, benchmarked to the deal-points study so you can tell aggressive terms from standard ones.
Read the benchmark →Run these benchmarks against your own deal
The benchmarks show what normal looks like across real filings. Upload your FDD, lease, or purchase agreement and Inkvex flags where your document sits against that baseline.
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