Press
Press & partnerships.
CommonFranchise is an independent franchise-data platform built by Mission Ctrl. We’re happy to help journalists, analysts, and partners working on stories about franchising, small-business investment, or data transparency.
At a glance
- Brands tracked
- 818
- FDDs analyzed
- 895
- Registration states
- 14
- Investment range
- $50K–$30M+
What we’re building
CommonFranchise is a data platform that extracts structured fee, investment, and earnings information from public Franchise Disclosure Documents and publishes it in a consistent, comparable format. Our long-term product is the universal applicant layer for franchising: a single candidate profile that routes to any brand’s intake process with standardized qualification data. The company is a product of Mission Ctrl, a studio founded by Connor Masterson.
Contact
Press inquiries
press@commonfranchise.comInterviews, data pulls, or fact-checking a story. We respond within one business day.
Partnerships
partners@commonfranchise.comFranchisors, brokers, lenders, and distribution partners. For data corrections, use corrections@commonfranchise.com instead.
Brand assets
Logo, wordmark, and approved usage. Please use “CommonFranchise” as a single word with internal capitalization.
Story angles
If any of these fit your beat, we’ll happily dig into the data with you.
Why franchise data is hard
Every US franchisor must file a 300-page FDD, yet prospective owners regularly sign agreements without ever reading one. The structural reason (FDDs are filed as PDFs across a patchwork of state registries) is a story about how an entire industry ended up opaque by accident.
The universal applicant layer
There are ~800,000 franchise establishments in the US and no standardized way to apply to one. A candidate who wants to evaluate ten brands fills out ten different forms. We’re building the single profile that maps to every brand’s intake.
Real earnings transparency
Only about a third of franchisors disclose unit-level financial performance in Item 19, despite FTC rules allowing it. CommonFranchise lets readers see, and filter for, the brands that tell prospective owners what their units actually earn.
Need something specific?
Tell us the angle and we’ll pull the data for you.