Deal Run vs DealMachine: From Finding Deals to Selling Them

DealMachine and Deal Run both have "Deal" in the name, but they operate on opposite sides of the wholesaling business. DealMachine is an acquisition tool built around driving for dollars: you drive through neighborhoods, photograph distressed properties, and the app helps you identify owners and send them direct mail. Deal Run is a disposition tool built around selling the deals you have already locked up: identifying buyers, analyzing the numbers, and marketing the property to active investors.

These are not competing products. They are two different tools for two different problems. But if you can only invest in one platform right now, understanding the difference will help you choose the one that solves your actual bottleneck.

What DealMachine does well

DealMachine pioneered the driving for dollars workflow in a mobile app. With plans that start at $99/mo billed annually (Basic is $119 a seat on monthly billing, Pro $179 per 3-user bundle; Scale is $599 per package a month, checked November 10, 2026), you get a tool that lets you drive through target neighborhoods, tap on distressed-looking properties, and instantly pull up ownership information. The app tracks your routes so you do not cover the same streets twice. Once you identify a property, DealMachine can look up the owner, provide skip-traced contact information, and send a postcard or handwritten letter directly from the app.

For wholesalers who rely on boots-on-the-ground deal finding, DealMachine streamlines that entire process. You see a boarded-up house, snap a photo, tap send, and a mailer goes out to the owner within days. It removes the friction between spotting a deal and making first contact. DealMachine also includes a basic CRM for tracking your leads, some list building capability, and team management features for operations that have multiple people driving routes.

Where DealMachine's value proposition ends is at the contract. Once you have a property under contract, DealMachine has no tools for selling it. There is no buyer identification. No deal marketing capability. No investor outreach system. No email or SMS blasting. No deal calculators or repair estimation (comps are available through its API/MCP tools). The platform is designed to get you to the contract, not to get you from the contract to the closing table.

What Deal Run does differently

Deal Run picks up at exactly that point. You have a deal under contract, and now you need three things: accurate numbers, qualified buyers, and a way to reach them. Deal Run provides all three.

Finding buyers automatically

Instead of maintaining a buyer list that you have built up one contact at a time over months or years, Deal Run's investor search analyzes transaction records to find people who are actively buying in the area around your subject property. It identifies two types of investors: landlords who own rental properties nearby (indicating they want to add to their portfolio in that location) and flippers who have recently purchased, renovated, and resold in the area (indicating they are looking for their next project).

Each investor gets an Investor Score based on five factors: proximity of their past purchases to your property (35%), similarity in beds, baths and square footage (25%), price (20%), how recently they bought (15%) and how many properties they bought (5%); see how Deal Run works. The result is a ranked list of real people with a demonstrated history of buying in your market, not a generic nationwide database.

Analyzing the deal

Before you market a deal, you need numbers that buyers will trust. Deal Run includes comp analysis that helps you evaluate each comparable sale by condition, so you are comparing renovated-to-renovated or distressed-to-distressed. You also get photo-based repair estimation that breaks down costs by category and exit strategy, and a MAO calculator that shows your maximum allowable offer across flip, rental and wholesale exits.

When you send a deal to an investor, you are sending it with professional analysis behind it. That credibility is what separates a deal that gets serious responses from one that gets ignored.

Package and Blast

Deal Run creates shareable deal marketing pages with property photos, specs, pricing, and an offer submission form. You can see how many times each buyer viewed the link and whether they submit an offer or showing request. Built-in email blasting from your own Gmail lets you push deals to your buyer list without needing a separate email marketing platform, and text blasts go out from your own number.

Feature comparison

Two halves of the same business

Wholesaling has two distinct stages that require different tools and different skills. The first stage is acquisition: finding distressed properties, contacting motivated sellers, negotiating contracts, and getting deals locked up. The second stage is disposition: finding qualified buyers, pricing the deal correctly, marketing it effectively, and closing the transaction.

DealMachine is a Stage 1 tool. Deal Run is a Stage 2 tool. Neither one tries to do the other's job, which is actually a strength. A platform that does one thing well is usually better than a platform that does everything adequately.

Using them together

The most complete wholesaling workflow uses a dedicated tool for each stage. DealMachine for finding and contacting motivated sellers, and Deal Run for selling the deals that result from those conversations. At the entry prices that is $119 + $99 = $218/mo for one user ($198 with DealMachine billed annually), before extra DealMachine seats or mail, and it covers both acquisition and disposition with purpose-built tools for each.

That said, not every wholesaler needs DealMachine specifically. Driving for dollars is one acquisition strategy among many. If your deals come from court records, referrals, networking with agents, or online marketing, DealMachine may not be relevant to your workflow at all. But nearly every wholesaler needs a way to sell the deals they find, regardless of how they find them. That is a universal need.

Who should choose Deal Run

• You have deals and need buyers. If you can find properties but struggle to sell them, Deal Run addresses your actual bottleneck.
• You want automated buyer identification. Deal Run finds landlords and flippers who recently bought near your property, from public records, and ranks them with its Investor Score.
• You need professional deal packaging. Real comps with condition data, repair estimates, and marketing pages give your deals credibility that a text message with an address cannot match.
• You want built-in deal blasts. Email blasts to your buyer list from your own Gmail, without needing Mailchimp, plus text blasts from your own number.
• You only need analysis. Analyze is $29/mo for comps, repairs and max offer; Analyze + Sell, at $99/mo, adds buyer finding and costs the same as DealMachine's entry price billed annually.

The limits, in one place: Analyze ($29/mo) includes one disposition deal for the life of the account, with up to 100 skip-traced buyers. Analyze + Sell ($99/mo, or $83/mo billed annually) includes 15 disposition deals a month with 100 skip-traced buyers per deal. Or pay per deal: $2 to analyze, $20 with 100 buyers. Deal Run doesn’t build seller lead lists, run a dialer, direct mail or drips, and its buyer list is a mini CRM, not a full CRM. It’s made by Deal Run LLC in Houston, Texas; see the trust page.

Who should choose DealMachine

• You are starting out and need to find deals. If you do not have properties under contract yet, finding deals is your first priority. DealMachine helps with that.
• Driving for dollars is your primary acquisition strategy. DealMachine's mobile app, route tracking, and in-app mailing are specifically built for that workflow.
• You need to send direct mail at scale. DealMachine integrates postcard and handwritten letter fulfillment directly into the property lookup flow.
• You manage a team of drivers. DealMachine's team management and route assignment features help coordinate multiple people in the field.

The bottom line

DealMachine gets you to the deal. Deal Run gets the deal to the buyer. These are fundamentally different problems that require different tools. If you already have deals under contract and your challenge is finding buyers and moving those deals, DealMachine will not help you. Deal Run will.

The wholesale business has two sides, and most tools only cover one. If you know which side your bottleneck is on, the choice is straightforward. For the acquisition side, DealMachine is a proven option. For the disposition side, Deal Run (our product) is purpose-built, starts at the same $99/mo as DealMachine's annual entry price for selling deals (or $29/mo for analysis only), and includes AI comps and photo-based repair estimates to back up your numbers.