Fontics - Structure Deals, Analyze Risks and Review Models 10x faster in Excel
January 24, 2026
by a professional from IESE Business School in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fontics is an Excel add-in to structure deals, analyze risks and review models 10x faster - reducing days of deal analysis to minutes while providing deeper deal insights.
Applications
- Evaluate the main drivers of IRR and MOIC of any deal [in minutes]
- Evaluate optimal deal structure i.e. mix of equity, debt, seller note and earn-out [in minutes]
- Prepare for negotiations better by optimizing deal structures [in minutes]
- Run stress tests on growth, debt, margin expansion etc [in minutes]
- Visualize financials to identify trends or outliers [in minutes]
- Run concentration analysis - Pareto and Top Clients analysis [in seconds]
- Run 10+ scenarios i.e. upside, downside etc [in seconds]
Features
- Integrates with any Excel model instantly
- Takes 2 minutes from install to first analysis
- Starts at $20/month with 14-day free trial (no credit card required).
Highlights
- 100% deterministic, No AI.
- 100% auditable and traceable
- 85% of modules run within 5s
- 99% of computations run locally (i.e. addressing data privacy)
What it replaces:
- manual scenario modeling/toggles
- manual sensitivity analysis/tornado charts
- taking data out of Excel for advanced analysis
- late nights. associates will save 2 to 3 hrs/day with Fontics
What it augments:
- Understanding the main drivers of returns / risks in a deal in minutes (and sense-checking if a model feels off)
- Quickly getting up to speed on any model (20+ sheets etc) in minutes
- Deal structuring: iterating quickly on core deal drivers to optimize deal structure
- Stress testing: particular useful for lenders
New value it creates:
- Real-time deal reviews with executive teams (replacing 10s of slides with instant analysis and iterations and keeping the thinking/doing in one room)
- Shortens deal review cycles (from days/weeks to hours)
- Unlocks hidden alpha from legacy models
- Simplifying behavioural model audits (most model audits focus on structural)
- Simplifying risk analysis / Monte Carlo (Oracle/@Risk cost over $2k/year)
- Audit layer to sense-check AI generated models (as new tools proliferate)
- Multi-factor solvers (previously required expensive tools like Oracle/@Risk)
- Dynamic what-if (any cell - including formula cells can be a what-if driver)
Resources:
- Run your Pre-LOI deal analysis in 1 hour https://searchfunder.com/post/how-to-run-your-pre-loi-investment-analysis-in-1-hour-full-post-7-mins-read
- Download our Search Fund LBO that covers 90% of what you need to analyze deals https://fontics.com/p/sample?model=SF_LBO