FDD Parsed Financials — Franchise Disclosure Document Money Facts

For a franchise brand, get the money facts from its current Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) as structured data — parsed from the filed document itself, not scraped from marketing pages:

• Item 5 — initial fees (including the initial franchise fee where disclosed as a single figure)
• Item 6 — other fees: the royalty and marketing/brand-fund rows, with the FDD's own row text
• Item 7 — the all-in estimated initial investment range, cross-verified two ways (see Accuracy)
• Item 19 — whether the franchisor makes financial performance representations, plus a clearly-labeled average/median gross-sales figure where one could be extracted unambiguously
• Item 20 — Table No. 1 total outlets for the last three fiscal years, with the 3-year change and trend (growing / flat / shrinking)

Price: $0.35 per report. One report = one brand. A brand that is not in the corpus returns found: false and charges nothing — this actor never guesses.

Input

• brand — the franchise brand name, e.g. McDonald's, The UPS Store, Tropical Smoothie Cafe.
• mode — report (default, $0.35 on a hit) or list (free: returns the brands currently in the corpus, with year and investment range for each).

Accuracy is the product

Franchise buyers make $150k–$1M+ commitments off these numbers, so the corpus is built under a strict gate. A brand enters the corpus only if all of these verify in its filed FDD:

1. the issuance date is found;
2. the cover page's total-investment range is found;
3. the identical range appears as an Item 7 TOTAL inside Item 7 (cover ↔ Item 7 cross-verification);
4. Item 20 Table No. 1 total-outlet figures parse for all three fiscal years.

Documents that fail any check are excluded entirely — at launch, 13 of 27 candidate FDDs were excluded this way. Before launch, a sample of the surviving brands was verified field-by-field against the source PDFs (investment ranges, fees, royalty/marketing rows, outlet counts), and any figure that could not be verified in context was removed rather than shipped.

Every report cites its source document — brand, FDD year, issuance date, and the document itself — and carries this instruction: as filed — verify against the source document.

Corpus at launch

14 brands, from their 2026 FDDs (2024 for Pet Supplies Plus): Anytime Fitness · Budget Blinds · Domino's · Dunkin' · Great Clips · Jersey Mike's Subs · McDonald's · Nothing Bundt Cakes · Pet Supplies Plus · Planet Fitness · SERVPRO · Snap-on Tools · The UPS Store · Tropical Smoothie Cafe. Use mode: list for the live inventory.

FDDs refile once a year, so the corpus refreshes on an annual cycle, with new brands added as their documents pass the gate.

Sources

The corpus documents are the franchisors' state-filed FDDs — the same documents filed with state franchise regulators (Wisconsin DFI, Minnesota Commerce CARDS, California DFPI, NASAA EFD states) — obtained from a public FDD archive mirror, because the state portals themselves block automated access. Each report names the exact document it was parsed from.

Not advice

This actor reproduces figures as filed in the FDD. It is not investment, legal, or financial advice, and no report replaces reading the full FDD — exhibits, state addenda, and item notes included.