ACDS DecisionAgricultural Capital Decision Standard

Analysis preparation · Founding beta

Arrive with the records. Finish with fewer guesses.

Each analyzer shows its expected time before you begin. The equipment Guided Decision is the shorter comparison; both farmland paths complete the full parcel analysis, while Land + Farm adds whole-farm capacity.

Printable field sheets

Two one-page checklists for the live analyzers.

Do not email confidential farm records, banking details, or complete financial files to ACDS. The analyzers run in your browser, and the checklists are for your own preparation.

F-01

Equipment Investment

Prepare the current-equipment, purchase, lease, custom-work, operating-capacity, and financing assumptions.

Current position

  • Current equipment description, realistic market value, remaining debt, and annual loan payment
  • Recent repair, insurance, fuel, labour, and ownership-cost records
  • Annual acres or workload and the workable operating window

Alternatives

  • Written purchase quote with installed cost, trade allowance, cash down, rate, and amortization
  • Lease quote with payment timing, term, limits, and end-of-lease value or option
  • Custom-operator quote with rate, fuel and labour inclusions, timing, and expected availability

Operating evidence

  • Expected capacity, downtime, resale value, and support-equipment requirements
  • Source or date for every material estimate used in the decision
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F-02

Farmland Acquisition

Prepare the parcel, land-margin, whole-farm, financing, evidence, and property-risk information.

Property and transaction

  • Total acres, productive acres, price, closing costs, taxes, and planned improvement timing
  • Current appraisal, dated comparable sales, and comparable rental evidence when available
  • Known title, access, drainage, zoning, environmental, lease, or possession issues

Land economics

  • Three-to-five-year crop budgets or operating records supporting normalized margin
  • Expected ownership costs, labour, reserve, rent, and long-term growth assumptions

Farm and financing

  • Current balance sheet, current assets and liabilities, total assets and liabilities
  • Existing annual debt service and cash available for debt payments
  • Down payment, interest rate, amortization, loan term, renewal assumptions, and lender targets
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Private evidence intake

Turn a folder of records into a review-ready index.

Select files only to classify their names and metadata in this browser. ACDS does not read or upload their contents. Download a manifest and a concise review brief, then exchange the actual records through your existing secure process.

Index local recordsNames, type, size, and modified date only. Contents stay untouched.
Add a benchmark or comparable referenceRecord the source, region, date, and limitation. ACDS will not treat it as verified.Optional
Download, then share deliberately.The manifest contains no source-file contents. The text brief is suitable for a meeting agenda or secure document request.

Still missing information?

Start with the smallest useful scope and mark estimates honestly.

An initial analysis can identify the assumptions that matter most. A final Decision File should replace material estimates with current records, quotes, appraisals, comparables, or clearly disclosed assumptions.