Scope was founded by Mark and Grace Higbee, Arizona entrepreneurs who believe the biggest decision of your working life should rest on real analysis instead of a hunch and a handshake.
Mark spent more than two decades leading people and operations in law enforcement. Thirteen of those years were in command roles, where he was responsible for budgets, risk, training, and roughly forty professionals across six units. In that world, every decision has to hold up under review. Grace built her career on the operator's side: leading healthcare facilities and their teams, owning and running businesses of her own, and working residential real estate as both investor and agent. Their paths were different, but they came to the same conviction.
When we started evaluating businesses to buy ourselves, we hit what every buyer hits: each opportunity came with new questions, conflicting information, and a dozen variables that could quietly change the outcome of a deal. The tools were scattered, the math lived in our heads, and confidence was hard to come by.
We didn't want to accept that as part of the process, so we set out to build a better one.
What started as internal tools for our own deals grew into a single workspace that runs the analysis, tracks the diligence, models the financing, and tells you what to do next. The name says what it's for: put a deal under the scope, see the whole picture, and then lock onto what matters.
Every feature is guided by one question: will this help someone make a better acquisition decision?
If the answer is yes, it belongs in the platform. If it doesn't add clarity or meaningful insight, we leave it out.
We're still building Scope the way it started, as buyers making the tool we wished existed rather than software developers chasing features.
Clarity creates confidence.