Source comparisons
Monthly sales, deposits and payroll compared. Missing evidence and differences tracked.
RESTAURANT SALE PREPARATION
Selling your restaurant?
Get your records ready for buyer review.
We organize your financial records, compare bank, POS and payroll totals, and prepare your buyer’s request packet—so you can keep running the restaurant.
Discuss your preparationAI-assisted. Operator-led. Human-reviewed.
I’m Seamus O’Brien. I drove the preparation for my own restaurant sale in 2026, using AI to build financial workpapers and the buyer data room.
Financial schedules
Figures connected to supporting records, with questions for your accountant.
An organized buyer packet
Your data room: indexed documents, source comparisons and a tracked request list.
DEFINED WORK. FIXED PROJECT PRICE.
Start with the work you need.
A buyer request list. A preparation plan.
Or the full data room.
Discuss the likely budget on the first call. If we’re a fit, agree a written scope and fixed quote before paid work starts.
Already facing a buyer’s request? Bring the list. We can scope that work directly.
Discuss buyer requestsScope, timing and professional review
A focused request project covers an agreed list and deadline. A preparation plan identifies available records, missing items and priorities for the next phase. You keep the plan, with no obligation to buy a full build. An active request list can be scoped directly without a separate planning phase.
One example of a full-package scope: one entity and restaurant, one POS and payroll system, up to four bank/card accounts and 24 months of monthly control comparisons; up to three years of available annual financials and filed tax records; 40 combined buyer, adviser and missing-item requests; two scheduled follow-up rounds each week; and two adviser review rounds. Your written quote defines the actual limits. Transaction-level bookkeeping reconstruction, additional requests and ongoing updates are separate.
The first conversation establishes fit, likely budget and the work needed. Detailed record review is paid, scoped work. Larger projects have agreed payment milestones; any later phase or additional work needs your approval and a written quote. If a preparation plan is part of your full build, the quote includes it once.
We plan the defined full package around six active weeks after minimum records are accessible. Scope, access, source quality and adviser availability determine the written schedule. The people delivering and reviewing the work are named before work starts.
AI helps extract, compare and draft. Human review checks the agreed outputs against sources. Unexplained differences remain visible. Your accountant decides accounting treatments and your attorney handles legal interpretation. Your advisers’ professional fees are separate. Financial comparisons are preparation for review, not an audit or certification.
This service covers preparation. It does not include valuation, buyer sourcing, listing, sale negotiation or brokerage representation. Fees pay for agreed work whether or not the sale closes. Before records are exchanged, we agree on confidentiality, access, sharing and retention. You approve sharing with advisers or buyers. Please keep financial files and passwords out of an initial inquiry.
Start with the seller’s records checklist →
FOR RESTAURANT BROKERS
You handle the sale.
We handle the unfinished packet.
Source comparisons, missing-record follow-up and an indexed handoff. Your seller or your brokerage can engage AIRG for defined work.
Discuss a seller’s preparationHow we work with brokersDoes the restaurant need operating work first?
When the records reveal food, labor or reporting problems, we can scope a separate project with the owner’s agreement. Accounting corrections stay with their accountant. Explore operating improvements.