Developers & AI agents
The SBA intelligence layer, as an API
Everything this site knows — 374,000+ public SBA loan records, 1,000+ lender records enriched with FDIC financials, 3,400+ franchise financing records, and failure rates by brand, bank, industry, and state — free and read-only, as REST and as an MCP server.
REST API
Base URL https://dealroom.so. No key, no auth, CORS open. Responses are JSON, cached 1–24h. Full schema: openapi.json.
| Endpoint | Returns |
|---|---|
GET /api/public/lenders?state=IA&limit=25 | Rank SBA lenders — national by FY production, or per state by trailing-12-month activity |
GET /api/public/lenders/{slug} | One lender's full record: activity, SBA focus + percentile, deal sizes, industries, states, franchises, recent deals |
GET /api/public/lenders/biggest | Biggest banks by FDIC assets/deposits, joined to actual SBA production |
GET /api/public/risk?scope=state|lender | FY2020–23 failure (charge-off) rates by state or lender, worst first |
GET /api/public/franchises?q=&sort=loans|riskiest|safest | Search the 8,400-brand SBA directory, or rank scored brands by volume/risk |
GET /api/public/franchises/{slug} | One brand's financing record: costs, rates, failure rate, top lenders, recent deals |
GET /api/public/sectors | Industry-level volume, typical acquisition loan, rates, failure rates |
GET /api/public/listings?industry=&state=&q= | Live business-for-sale listing teasers |
GET /api/public/openapi.json | The OpenAPI 3.1 spec for everything above |
Try it:
curl "https://dealroom.so/api/public/lenders?state=IA&limit=5" curl "https://dealroom.so/api/public/franchises?sort=riskiest&limit=10" curl "https://dealroom.so/api/public/franchises/the-ups-store"
MCP server
The same data as tools for AI agents, over Streamable HTTP at https://dealroom.so/api/mcp. Add it to Claude Code:
claude mcp add --transport http dealroom https://dealroom.so/api/mcp
Or any MCP client config:
{
"mcpServers": {
"dealroom": { "url": "https://dealroom.so/api/mcp" }
}
}rank_sba_lendersnational or per-state lender rankings
get_lenderone lender's full SBA record
biggest_sba_banksFDIC size joined to SBA production
failure_ratescohort failure rates by state or lender
search_franchisesdirectory search + risk/volume rankings
get_franchiseone brand's financing record
industry_riskper-industry intelligence
Fair use & attribution
url field included in every record. AI agents are never rate-limited— Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini user-agents pass free, always. Everything else gets 250 requests/day and 1,000/week per IP (responses cache for hours, so cache on your side and you'll never notice). Need more for an app? Use the form below and tell us what you're building. Sources: SBA public loan data (FY2020–present), the official SBA Franchise Directory, and FDIC BankFind. Figures are estimates computed from public records; verify before relying on them in a transaction.Also for agents: /llms.txt · machine-readable rankings ship as JSON-LD on every intelligence page.
Building something on this data?
Tell us what you're building — integrations that help buyers get funded are exactly what this data is for, and we can sometimes expose more than the public API shows.
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