Running numbers & blasting deals
From first walkthrough to a deal in your buyers' inboxes, the dispo toolkit lives right on the deal room: Run Numbers analyzes the deal, the Deal Package structures the listing, the photo gallery sells it, and the buyer blast sends it out. Here's the full workflow.
Run Numbers — AI deal analysis
Open any deal room (or any lead page) and find the Deal Analysis panel. Fill in what you know — asking price, beds, baths, square footage, year built, ARV, and a repair estimate if you have one — and hit Run Numbers. In about 10–30 seconds you get a full investor write-up: property snapshot, repair breakdown, the offer math, and a verdict.
It runs automatically on new website leads
You don't have to do anything for leads that come in through your website. When a seller submits your form, DispoStack automatically scores the lead (quality score + rationale + suggested next step) and, when there's an address, runs the numbers — pulling property data and comps, estimating repairs, and computing your offer. Open the lead and both are already filled in; the Deal Analysis is tagged with an "Auto" badge. (You can turn this off, or check your monthly usage, under Settings → AI lead analysis.)
Watch it work, live
If you open a lead while the AI is still processing it, you'll see an "AI is working on this lead…" card that shows the real step it's on — scoring → property data → repairs → offer → writing the analysis — and the finished score and Deal Analysis appear automatically the moment it's done. No need to refresh. (It usually takes 20–40 seconds.)
What you see
The panel leads with your Recommended Cash Offer (the MAO) and a color-coded verdict — Strong, Fair, Thin, or Pass — with a one-line reason, so you can make the call at a glance. Below that: a visual breakdown of how the offer, repairs, and your fee fit inside the ARV; key metric tiles (ARV with a confirmed/estimate badge, repair range, your spread, margin); a cash-now vs. agent-path comparison to show sellers; comparable sales when available; the per-area condition grade; and the full Analyst's Take write-up. The latest analysis is shown first; older runs are in the history dropdown.
Add photos first
This is the single biggest upgrade you can give the analysis. When the deal has photos in its gallery, the AI looks at them and grades the condition of each visible area — kitchen, bathrooms, flooring, paint, roof, exterior, and more. Each area gets a condition (good, dated, or poor) and a recommended scope of work.
Here's the part that keeps the estimates honest: the AI never invents prices. It only judges condition. The dollar figures come from a fixed repair cost table — so a "dated kitchen needing a medium remodel" always prices from the same range, every time. No photos? The analysis falls back to your manual repair estimate, or runs with repairs at zero and tells you so.
One special case: if the photos suggest foundation issues, you'll see it flagged as "requires professional inspection" with no dollar figure attached. Foundation costs are too variable to estimate from photos — get an inspector out.
The numbers
The analysis uses the classic wholesale formula:
MAO = ARV × 70% − repairs (midpoint) − $10,000 assignment fee − $2,500 holding costs
You also get an agent-path comparison (what the seller might net listing traditionally) and your estimated spread. Every analysis is saved, so you can re-run after new photos or a price change and compare against the history right in the panel.
Keep these in mind
- Run Numbers counts against your plan's included analyses (Solo 25 / Team 100 / Scale 300 per month). Extra analyses are $0.75 each. The Settings page shows how many you have left this month.
- These are estimates, not appraisals. Repair ranges are preliminary underwriting numbers built from national averages — your market will differ, and only local contractor bids are real. Never present them to a seller or buyer as a firm bid.
- Always verify ARV with local comps before making an offer. Every write-up ends with this reminder because it's the one step that kills bad deals before they cost you money.
Building the deal package
The Deal Package tab on the deal room is where you structure the listing the way buyers expect to see it:
| Field | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Starting Price (asking) | The price you're marketing the deal at |
| Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) | The deposit you expect from the buyer |
| Close of Escrow (COE) Date | Your target closing date |
| Occupancy at Closing | Vacant, tenant-occupied, or owner-occupied |
| Access info | Lockbox code, showing instructions, "drive by only" — whatever buyers need |
| Open to the Investor Network | Per-deal toggle — see below |
Everything you fill in here shows on the public deal page and in the blast email, so a complete package means fewer "what's the EMD?" calls.
The photo gallery
The Photos tab holds up to 24 photos per deal (PNG, JPG, or WebP, 5 MB each). Use the arrows to reorder them — order matters, because:
- The first photo is the hero image on your public deal page and at the top of the blast email.
- The first several photos are what Run Numbers analyzes for repair estimates.
Lead with your best exterior shot, then kitchen, baths, and anything that tells the condition story.
Sending a buyer blast
When the package is ready, hit the blast button. Before anything sends, you'll see a preview count of how many buyers will receive it — so there are no surprises.
Who receives it: your active buyers who have an email and whose buy-box locations include the deal's city. Buyers with no locations set are treated as "open to anything" and are included too. If the deal is opted into the Investor Network, matching network buyers are added on top (more below). Each buyer gets an individual email with your company's branding — never a giant CC list.
Requirements before you can blast:
- The deal's public listing must be enabled (the email links to it).
- The package needs a Starting Price or ARV — a blast with no numbers burns buyer goodwill.
- Only owners and admins can send a blast.
The 24-hour rule: each deal can be blasted once per 24 hours. This protects your sender reputation and your buyers' patience — a list that gets the same deal three times in a day stops opening your emails. The panel shows when the last blast went out and how many buyers it reached.
Blasts are capped at 200 recipients per send, with your own buyers always filling the list first.
The Investor Network
The Investor Network connects deals and buyers across the wider DispoStack network, and it works in both directions:
Your deals reach more buyers. Flip on "Open to the Investor Network" in the Deal Package, and your blast also goes to network-opted-in cash buyers from other companies whose buy-box includes your deal's city. The city match is strict — your deal is never sprayed across the whole network. You'll see how many network buyers are included in the preview count and the send summary, but their contact details stay private; they respond through your public deal page like any other buyer.
Your opted-in buyers receive matching network deals. Buyers who joined through your website's VIP buyers funnel opted in when they signed up — the form says so right up front: "By joining you agree to receive matching deal alerts, including from partner investors in our network." For buyers you add by hand, opt-in happens only through the explicit Investor Network checkbox on the buyer form — check it only if the buyer actually agreed to receive matching off-market deals from the wider network. Network deals they receive carry a short "Shared via the DispoStack Investor Network" note, and they only ever get deals matching their cities.
It's a fair trade: consented buyers see more deals, and your deals see more buyers — without anyone's list being exposed or spammed.
Automatic analysis on new leads
When a new website lead comes in — through your seller funnel, your site's contact form, or a connected intake form — DispoStack can automatically run the numbers before you even open the lead.
What happens
Within seconds of the lead arriving, the system:
- 1Pulls property data from RentCast — beds, baths, square footage, year built, estimated value (AVM), and up to three comparable sales.
- 2Estimates repairs based on the condition the seller described (move-in ready, light, medium, heavy, etc.) using the same cost table as the manual Run Numbers panel.
- 3Calculates MAO using the standard 70% rule, with the AVM as the starting ARV.
- 4Writes a full investor memo using the same AI model as the manual analysis.
The result shows up in the Run Numbers panel on the lead's detail page, tagged with an Auto badge so you can tell it was generated automatically. You can still run a manual analysis on top of it — for example, after you've spoken with the seller and have a firmer ARV, or after uploading photos.
Pricing
Each automatic analysis counts as one of your plan's included AI lead analyses (Solo 25 / Team 100 / Scale 300 per month). While you have analyses remaining, there is no charge. Once your included amount is used up, each additional analysis is $0.75. Settings → AI lead analysis shows how many you have left this month.
Turning it off
Go to Settings → AI lead analysis and flip the toggle off. Automatic analysis stops immediately for all new leads. Analyses already run are not affected. Only owners and admins can change this setting.
Keep in mind
- The ARV used in the automatic analysis comes from RentCast's estimated value, not confirmed comps — treat it as a starting point. The analysis memo always notes this.
- Leads without an address are skipped (there's nothing for RentCast to look up).
- A maximum of 25 auto analyses run per day per workspace as a safeguard.
- If AI is paused for your account (monthly usage cap reached), automatic analysis is also paused for new leads.
- Manual Run Numbers counts against the same monthly pool as automatic analyses — each analysis is one unit regardless of how it was triggered.