Solutions for Suppliers
Every FDD is a prospect profile. We have 1,800+ of them.
Franchise systems disclose what suppliers need to know — system size and growth, required purchases, approved-supplier programs, grand-opening spend — once a year, in public filings. Clearly turns that disclosure into a market map you can sort, filter, and act on.
If it’s disclosed in an FDD, we can build you a report on it.
Childcare & Education — read as a market
2025 → 2026 filings
| Brand | Units 2025 → 2026 | Opened | Closed | Transfers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primrose SchoolsEarly childhood / daycare | 525 → 557 +32 | 36 | 3 | 21 |
| i9 SportsYouth sports | 264 → 294 +30 | 36 | — | 21 |
| School of RockMusic enrichment | 303 → 323 +20 | 27 | 2 | 9 |
| Kiddie AcademyEarly childhood / daycare | 345 → 364 +19 | 23 | 3 | 18 |
| Goldfish Swim SchoolYouth sports / swim | 177 → 199 +22 | 23 | 1 | 8 |
| Sylvan LearningAcademic tutoring | 478 → 433 −45 | 12 | 55 | 26 |
Item 8 · Required purchases
Who must buy what, on the record.
Every system discloses its required purchases and approved-supplier programs. That’s your addressable market, brand by brand — not a guess, a filing.
Item 20 · System movement
Growth signals, a year before the trades write about them.
Openings, closures, transfers, and projected new outlets — disclosed annually. Systems adding units are systems buying equipment, product, and services.
Custom reports
Any FDD field. Any filter. Your list.
Tell us the criteria — category, system size, spend requirements, disclosure terms — and we deliver the brands that match, sourced to their filings.
A custom report, worked example
You describe the market. We pull it from the filings.
The request
“Every brand that requires grand-opening marketing spend — how much, and who controls it.”
Moments in the pipeline
The questions get specific. So do the answers.
“I need a prospect list for my category, not a directory.”
A custom report filters every filed FDD by your criteria — category, system size, purchase requirements — and returns the brands that match, cited to the Item.
OutcomeA qualified list, not a cold one.
“How big is this market, really?”
Category intelligence sums what the filings disclose: units, growth, investment ranges, required spend. Size the opportunity from source documents, not analyst estimates.
OutcomeA defensible market size for the board deck.
“Which systems are actually opening units next year?”
Item 20 discloses openings, closures, and projected new outlets. Growing systems are buying — equipment, build-outs, product, services.
OutcomeTiming your outreach to disclosed growth.
“Does this brand run an approved-supplier program?”
Item 8 says so, brand by brand — what franchisees must buy, from whom, and whether the franchisor takes revenue on it. Read it before the first call.
OutcomeYou walk in knowing how they buy.
“What changed since last year’s filing?”
Year-over-Year surfaces new purchase requirements, revised investment ranges, and system movement — the openings in incumbent supply relationships.
OutcomeYou see the door open before competitors do.
“I’m meeting a franchisor’s leadership next week.”
Open the brand’s Workspace, ask Clara about their fees, growth, and obligations — every answer cited. Reference their own disclosure in the meeting.
OutcomeThe most prepared vendor in the room.
The franchise market, disclosed. Your slice of it, on a report.
Anything a system discloses in its FDD, we can sort for. Tell us your criteria.