Reports — Franchise intelligence from the FDD | ClearlyFDD
Intelligence Reports

The FDD is full of answers. These reports find them.

Every report is built from Franchise Disclosure Documents and traced back to the Item and page it came from — so what you read, you can verify.

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Reports for franchisees & buyers

Evaluating a brand, or renewing your agreement? These reports turn one franchise's disclosure into something you can actually act on.

Year-over-Year

What changed between this brand's two most recent filings.

Every difference between the 2025 and 2026 FDD — investment range, fees, unit counts, required systems — each change traced to its Item and page.

$99per brand · available for 680+ brands
Renewal Comparison Report

What's different in the agreement you're about to re-sign.

A side-by-side of your current franchise agreement against the latest filing, so you know exactly what's changed before you renew.

$299per comparison
Clearly Report™

One brand's FDD, decoded into plain language.

The whole disclosure document explained Item by Item — fees, obligations, territory, and the financials — without the legal density.

$49per brand
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Reports for suppliers & vendors

Sell into franchising? These reports tell you which brands to target, what drives their buying decisions, and what they're about to need next.

Item 7 Intelligence

Build-out and grand-opening spend, across the system.

Who controls the budget, how much, and when it lands — sourced to the page so you can prioritize outreach.

Category Intelligence

A whole category, structured around your sales questions.

Required systems, fees, growth, and supplier obligations across every brand in a segment — built for sales and business development teams.

Custom Reports

Name the question. We build the dataset around it.

Tell us what you need to know and we assemble it from the filings, with every field traced back to its source document.

Year-over-Year

The requirement changes in the filing before the field.

A new mandated platform or a higher ad fund shows up in the disclosure first — a signal you can move on while it's early.

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Industry reports

Most franchise data stops at one brand. Industry reports zoom out — benchmarking a category, a segment, or the whole industry across every filing in the library.

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1,600+
Franchise brands in the library
2,400+
FDD filings analyzed
100%
Sourced to the Item & page
How these reports work

Every figure ties back to a specific Item number and page in the filing it came from. We translate the disclosure — we don't score, rank, or recommend brands as investments.