A Reputation Platform for SBA Acquisition Professionals
Find the right lenders, advisors, and brokers for your deal — backed by reviews from past clients, not marketing.
“A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.”
Timeless Principles
A Good Name
“A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.”
Reputation is the currency that matters most. VerSquare exists to make provider reputation visible, verifiable, and permanent - so that great providers are found for the right reasons.
See how we put these principles into practice
Challenges Faced
The Experience Gap
Most people buying or selling a company are doing it for the first and only time in their lives. Unlike private equity firms with deep pockets and a deal team built over numerous deals, individual buyers and sellers enter the most important financial decision of their lives with limited experience. Large institutional players have the resources to identify great advisors, verify track records, and avoid costly mistakes. Individual buyers and sellers rarely do.
The Bad Actor Risk
This inexperience creates vulnerability. When buyers and sellers lack institutional knowledge, bad actors thrive. Without transparent data and published client reviews, it is too easy for underperforming advisors to coast on marketing rather than merit. The stakes are too high for word-of-mouth referrals to be the primary discovery mechanism.
The Data Desert
The SMB deal ecosystem operates largely in the dark. Deal teams are assembled through relationships, not data. Performance is not measured systematically. Success stories and failures both disappear into private conversations. Every transaction reinvents the wheel, and lessons learned by one buyer or seller rarely benefit the next.
Daniel Giles
Built by Daniel Giles after 18 months navigating the SBA acquisition process — including two failed deals. VerSquare exists because finding trustworthy professionals shouldn't require learning from expensive mistakes. He also founded ETATL, Atlanta's monthly meetup for people buying and building businesses.
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What We're Building
VerSquare exists at the intersection of these principles and these problems.
Find the Right People, Not Just Available People
Providers earn their standing through client reviews, not paid placements. Every score on VerSquare is calculated from reviews left by account holders across five separate dimensions - no editorial inflation, no pay-to-rank.
Make Better Decisions With Real Data
Private equity firms have deep networks and deal teams built over decades. First-time buyers and sellers deserve access to the same quality of provider intelligence - who is good, who specializes in what, and what past clients actually experienced.
Avoid Costly Mistakes Before They Happen
When provider performance is measured and published, great providers rise to the top and underperformers are easy to spot. You can see who has actually closed deals like yours - before you commit to working with them.
The people behind the deals deserve the same intelligence as the institutions.
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