{
  "title": "How to Do an AI-Powered Roll-Up: Platform, Add-Ons, Financing",
  "url": "https://acquisitions.com/blog/how-to-do-an-ai-powered-roll-up/",
  "author": "Moran Pober",
  "publisher": "Acquisitions.com",
  "published": "2026-10-23",
  "updated": "2026-10-23",
  "section": "Roll-ups",
  "keyword": "AI-powered roll-up",
  "short_answer": "A roll-up buys several small businesses in one fragmented industry and runs them as one group. You buy a \"platform\" first, then add smaller \"add-ons\", financed with SBA loans, seller notes and investor equity. The group is worth more per dollar of profit than the pieces. It is an AI-powered roll-up when AI finds and screens the deals, does first-pass diligence, and runs one operating stack in every business.",
  "facts": {
    "Earnings": [
      "$500,000 SDE each, $2,500,000 in all",
      "About $2,000,000 EBITDA after paying a general manager and a group office"
    ],
    "Multiple paid or received": [
      "3 to 4 times SDE",
      "6 to 8 times EBITDA"
    ],
    "Value": [
      "$7.5 million to $10 million",
      "$12 million to $16 million"
    ]
  },
  "sources": [
    "https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/7a-loans"
  ],
  "license": "Facts may be quoted with attribution to Acquisitions.com and a link to the url above."
}