How buying and selling AI businesses works
Every deal on Acquisitions follows one route. The seller lists and verifies, the buyer screens and signs an NDA, offers and a letter of intent follow, an independent licensed escrow provider holds the funds and a shared checklist covers the handover. Both sides always know the next step.
Six steps from listing to handover
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List.
The seller describes the business and gets an indicative valuation range.
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Verify.
Revenue, churn and traffic come from read-only connections.
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NDA.
Private details open only after an NDA is signed in the app.
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Offer and LOI.
The buyer sends an offer and a structured letter of intent.
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Escrow.
An independent licensed escrow provider holds and releases the funds.
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Handover.
A shared checklist moves accounts, code, data and domains to the buyer.
Selling an AI business, step by step
Start with the estimator. Enter your category and monthly revenue, refine with growth, churn and margin after model costs, and see an indicative range from SaaS valuation multiples. The inputs become a listing draft you edit in minutes.
Next, connect your payment processor and analytics with read-only access. Acquisitions reads revenue, subscriptions, refunds and traffic, and shows each metric with a source badge. You never upload screenshots and buyers never wonder whether a number was typed by hand.
Your listing goes live without your business name or domain. Buyers see the category, the verified metrics, the stack and the model provider. When a buyer requests an NDA, you see their profile and decide whether to accept. After the NDA, you share the name, documents and data room.
Offers and letters of intent arrive in one inbox. You compare terms side by side, reply in messages and accept the one that fits. A full guide for founders is on Sell online business.
What a seller pays
Sellers choose a monthly or annual plan: List, Featured or Portfolio. A success fee applies only to deals closed through the escrow route: 3% on List, 1.5% on Featured and no success fee on Portfolio. All plans are on Pricing for buyers and sellers.
Buying an AI business, step by step
Search verified listings and filter by MRR, growth, churn, asking price, revenue multiple, category, stack, model provider, inference cost share and geography. Save the search as a deal alert and get an email when a new listing fits.
Request an NDA on the listings you like. Once the seller accepts, you see the business name, domain and documents, and you can message the seller directly.
Work through the SaaS due diligence checklist with the seller. It covers financials, customers, the AI layer (inference cost, model provider dependency, prompt and data ownership), legal, technical and handover items, and tracks what is done.
Send an offer, then a letter of intent from the LOI builder. When terms are agreed, the deal moves to escrow. A longer guide is on Buy an online business.
Revenue verification at the source
Verification uses read-only access. We read the data needed to show revenue, churn, refunds and traffic, and nothing else. We never move money, never create charges, never change settings and never contact customers. Sellers can disconnect at any time, and the listing is hidden while a connection is missing. Details are on Revenue verification.
NDA before details, LOI before escrow
The NDA is signed inside the app, so both sides have a record of who saw what and when. The LOI builder gives a standard structure: price, payment terms, what is included, due diligence period, exclusivity and conditions. Terms remain yours to negotiate. Acquisitions provides the workflow, not legal advice, so involve your own lawyer where the deal needs one.
Escrow with an independent licensed provider
Acquisitions does not hold funds. When both sides agree, the buyer pays into escrow with an independent licensed escrow provider. The seller transfers the assets, the buyer confirms receipt, and the provider releases the funds. Neither side has to trust the other with money or assets first.
Handover without loose ends
The handover checklist lists every asset: domains, code repositories, hosting, payment processor account, analytics, email, model provider accounts and API keys, prompts and evaluation sets, documentation and customer communication. Each item has an owner and a status, so the buyer confirms receipt item by item before escrow releases the funds.
What Acquisitions is and is not
Acquisitions is a listing and deal-workflow platform. It is not a broker-dealer and not an investment adviser, and it gives no investment advice. Valuations are indicative estimates based on public market data, not appraisals. Buyers and sellers make their own decisions and agree their own terms.
FAQ
It depends on the size of the business and how quickly both sides move through diligence. Verified numbers and a shared checklist remove much of the back and forth that slows deals down.
Escrow is the recommended route and the one the success fee applies to. Buyers and sellers who close another way can still use listings, NDAs, messages and checklists.
Yes. Listings show the category and verified metrics without the business name or domain. Identity is shared only after an NDA the seller accepts.
The buyer drafts it in the LOI builder from a standard structure and the seller reviews it. Both sides can involve their own advisers. Acquisitions does not give legal advice.
No. We provide the marketplace, verification and workflow. Price and terms are agreed between buyer and seller.
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Start on the route that fits you
Get an indicative range for your business or browse verified listings.