About
Every business valuation starts with tax returns.
Analysts still key them in by hand or fix up the output of tools they don’t trust. Sidesheet reads business returns and turns them into clean, multi-year financials, with every number traced to the line and page it came from.
Why now
A generation of owner-run businesses is changing hands as their founders retire, and few of them have audited financials. Their tax returns are the most reliable record they have, so every valuation, loan and sale starts there. Until recently, software couldn’t read those returns well enough to trust, so firms still key them in by hand. AI models finally can. Sidesheet pairs them with the checks a CPA would run, so firms get financials they can rely on in minutes instead of hours.
Founders
James Friedman
Co-founder, Valuation
CPA and business valuation analyst. James values closely held businesses for a living and leads how Sidesheet builds and exports the financials.
Peyton Hobson
Co-founder, Engineering
ML and fintech engineer who has built systems at Crossing Minds and Circle. Peyton built Sidesheet end to end and leads its engineering.
What’s shipped
- Supports 1120, 1120-S and 1065 returns back to 2015
- In private beta
- US-only processing, zero data retention
Sidesheet is built by UNTAP LLC, Oregon. hello@sidesheet.co