--- title: "Deal clinic: when \"profitable SaaS\" shows −57% growth" url: https://firstpassmemo.com/clinics/2026-10-14-acquire-ai-proposal-saas/ updated: 2026-10-14 publisher: FirstPass Memo (hello@firstpassmemo.com) --- Deal clinic · Acquire.com · SaaS (B2B subscription / AI proposal platform) # Async deal clinic: when "profitable SaaS" shows −57% growth Checked 2026-10-14 (CT) · Listing: https://app.acquire.com/public/rkyndnt2ju-profitable-ai-proposal-saas-helping-agencies-close-deals-faster-17-4k-ttm-revenue (https://app.acquire.com/public/rkyndnt2ju-profitable-ai-proposal-saas-helping-agencies-close-deals-faster-17-4k-ttm-revenue) ## Check a listing now, free FirstPass Memo offers a free red-flag checker for business-for-sale listings and a $79 first-pass memo on a specific listing you send, paid after delivery. Paste any listing below for payback, the asking multiple and its red flags. Nothing you paste leaves your browser. Open the full checker (https://firstpassmemo.com/checker/) to unlock every flag with its seller question. Listing: Acquire.com public listing rkyndnt2ju (AI proposal SaaS for agencies). Ask $39,000. Checked live on 14 Oct 2026 (CT). ## What the listing claims B2B SaaS for agencies to create, send, track, and close proposals (AI drafts, branded docs, e-signatures, payments, revisions, analytics). Ask $39,000. Metrics panel: TTM revenue $20.5k, TTM profit $11.6k, last-month revenue $1.6k, last-month profit $1k. The same page's title and body also state $17.4K TTM revenue. It reports $835 current MRR / about $10.0K ARR with 29 active subscribers (panel also shows $10.4k ARR), 400+ historical trials, 10–50 customers, −57% annual growth, and 10%+ upward churn. Founded April 2025. Stack named: Next.js, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Stripe, Webflow. Sale reason on the page: new venture / lack of time. ## What passes (on the public text alone) - Ask is in the micro-SaaS band ($20k–$100k). - Recurring subscriptions, a live product, and named transferable assets (codebase, domain, brand, customer database). - Arithmetic on seller-stated figures only: ask ÷ TTM profit = $39,000 ÷ $11,600 ≈ 3.4×; ask ÷ (TTM profit ÷ 12) ≈ 40 months; ask ÷ stated MRR ($835) ≈ 47 months. Ratios, not a price opinion. - Named billing and stack (Stripe; Next.js / Supabase) give concrete places to verify later. ## What fails or is unproven Biggest flag: the listing itself shows the business shrinking. Annual growth is −57% and churn is 10%+ upward. A first pass treats that as the hinge before any growth story. Paying on TTM profit buys a trailing average while run-rate and retention are moving the wrong way. Until Stripe and cohorts show whether $835 MRR is stable, recovering, or still falling, TTM profit is not enough. Also unproven on the same page: - TTM revenue stated two ways — $17.4K in title/body vs $20.5k in the metrics panel. Needs reconciliation, not a shrug. - ARR / MRR vs TTM revenue — ~$10k ARR beside $17.4k–$20.5k TTM can mean one-time fees, annual prepay timing, or a recent drop. The text does not say which. - Short age — founded April 2025, so "TTM" may mix launch months with later ones. - Churn is a band only — no monthly cohort table, NRR, or logo-count series. - Distribution pause is asserted — limited recent marketing is not proof that restarting SEO or outbound restores MRR. ## Questions to ask the seller - Reconcile TTM gross revenue ($17.4K vs $20.5k): which months, and a Stripe monthly export that adds to the correct total? - Month-by-month MRR bridge for 12 months (new, expansion, contraction, churned) ending at $835. - For the 29 active subscribers: plan mix, ARPU, and top-5 share of MRR (percentages; no customer names needed). - Definition behind 10%+ upward churn (logo vs revenue; monthly vs annual), plus cohort retention for the last two quarters. - Last-month revenue $1.6k / profit $1k: list that month's costs (AI/API, hosting, tools, fees) and confirm the same treatment in the TTM P&L. - Of 400+ trials, how many converted, in which months, and what is trial-to-paid with marketing paused? - Required third-party dependencies (model APIs, email, e-sign, hosting) and those costs for each of the last six months. - Who handles support and deploys today, hours per week, and what access (Stripe, git, DNS, analytics) transfers on day one? ## Paid next step A full FirstPass memo on this listing (or any listing you paste) runs the same checks against your criteria and ranks seller questions — $79, pay after delivery. ## Disclaimer Educational screening only. Not investment, financial, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Not a valuation and not a recommendation to buy, bid, or pass. Based only on public Acquire.com listing text as of 14 Oct 2026 (CT). Figures are seller- or marketplace-stated and unverified. FirstPass Memo is not affiliated with or endorsed by Acquire.com. ## Request the full $79 memo on this listing (pay after delivery) We check this listing against your limits, rank every flag with the field it came from and order the seller questions. We send the memo first, then an invoice for $79. ## Sources - Acquire.com public listing rkyndnt2ju (https://app.acquire.com/public/rkyndnt2ju-profitable-ai-proposal-saas-helping-agencies-close-deals-faster-17-4k-ttm-revenue), read 2026-10-14 (CT). 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