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The vendor opportunity at Venture X

Venture X is a professional services franchise with 61 locations, all franchised, and no company-owned units reported. The system grew by 7.018% year-over-year, adding units in a concentrated geographic footprint. The top states are Florida with 18 locations, Texas with 15, Colorado with 6, and South Carolina and Virginia with 5 each. Average unit volume sits at $1.5 million, with a 6.0% royalty rate. For a software vendor, the addressable market is these 61 franchised locations, each operated by a single-unit franchisee—there are 83 mapped operators and zero multi-unit owners, meaning every location is independently run but bound by the same franchisor mandates.

The opportunity is not in selling location-by-location. The franchisor, Vast, controls the technology stack from the top. If you can get your product mandated or approved at the corporate level, you gain access to all 61 units at once. The unit economics are strong enough at $1.5M AUV to support software investment, but you will need to prove value to a corporate team that already mandates core operational systems.

Who controls software purchasing

The buying center is at the franchisor level. The FDD lists the following executives for Vast: Jason Anderson, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer; Hunter Crittenden, Chief Financial Officer; Paula Mercer, Vice President; Tammy Senter, Vice President of Operations; and John Fleming, Regional Vice President. For a software pitch, the CEO and CFO are the likely economic buyers for any system-wide mandate. The VP of Operations is the probable champion or end-user advocate for tools that impact daily location workflow. There is no CIO or CTO listed, which is common for a system of this size and suggests technology decisions are made by the executive team wearing multiple hats.

With 83 single-unit operators and no multi-unit franchisees, there is no secondary buying center of influence at the franchisee level. Franchisees are not aggregated into groups that could pilot or adopt software independently. The path to adoption runs exclusively through Vast's leadership.

Mandated and current tech stack

The 2026 FDD mandates three categories of technology: workspace management software, a point-of-sale (POS) system, and a customer relationship management (CRM) platform. The specific vendors for these systems are not named in the disclosure document. This is a critical gap for any vendor doing competitive research. You will need to discover the incumbent providers through direct discovery or by reviewing the operations manual, which is not part of the public FDD.

The mandate itself is a signal. It tells you the franchisor sees technology as a standardization lever and is willing to require it contractually. If you are selling adjacent software—scheduling, member management, billing, access control, or business intelligence for coworking spaces—you are either displacing part of the mandated stack or integrating with it. Your pitch must address both scenarios explicitly.

Procurement, renewals, and timing

The FDD does not include an extract from Item 8, so the formal procurement model is not disclosed. It is unknown whether Vast uses designated suppliers, maintains an approved-supplier list, or allows franchisees to purchase from open sources within specified standards. This is a discovery question for your first conversation with the executive team.

On contract timing, the initial franchise term length is not disclosed in the available data. The renewal term, however, is 35 years, with conditions that include a $2,500 renewal fee, a required remodel, signing of releases, and the possibility of being asked to sign a new Franchise Agreement with materially different terms. This last point is the vendor-relevant signal. When franchisees renew, they may be forced into a new agreement that could include updated technology mandates. If you can time your outreach to align with a wave of renewals or a system-wide refresh of the franchise agreement, you may find a window to get your software written into the new requirements.

How to read the Venture X FDD

The Franchise Disclosure Document is the single most important research asset for selling into any franchise system. For Venture X, the 2026 FDD contains the legal and operational blueprint of the entire 61-unit system. It defines what franchisees must buy, from whom, and under what terms. It names the executives who control those decisions. It discloses the unit economics, growth trajectory, and geographic concentration that shape the total addressable market.

Review the embedded PDF below to verify the facts cited here and to dig deeper into Items 8 and 11 for procurement and technology details not extracted in this summary. The document was filed with state franchise regulators in 2026. For a ranked target list of franchise systems that match your ideal customer profile, including technology mandates and buyer contact signals, FranCloud can help.