Roughly seven percent of owners in this market are listed with brokers. Every funded buyer in the country is competing for them. We work with the rest. The owners who are open to selling but haven't called a banker, haven't listed anywhere, and don't show up on any deal database. When we bring you a deal, you're usually the only buyer in the room.
Listed with brokers or already in a banker-led process. This is where every funded buyer is competing, which is exactly why the multiples get bid up.
Open to selling but not listing. Not calling brokers. Not on any deal database. You only get to these owners through patient, direct outreach.
We run your acquisition thesis against several million business records using fifteen filters and intent signals. What comes out is a few hundred owners who match your criteria and look like they might actually be moving toward a transition. That's a list you can work. A database export isn't.
Each owner gets messaging that references their actual business: what they do, who they sell to, the signal that put them on the list. Owners can spot a merge-field-and-template pitch from a mile away because they've been deleting those for ten years. Ours doesn't read that way because it isn't written that way.
When an owner replies, they get a real M&A person, not a sourcing analyst. Most owners in this market are six to eighteen months away from the event that finally turns interest into action. Staying useful through that window is the work. When the deal is ready, you're picking up a relationship, not a cold lead.
Third-generation, partner-owned. We filtered the manufacturing data on owner age and ownership structure and he came up. The first email talked about what the shop actually made and who they made it for. He replied. We reached LOI with no one else in the room.
DSO consolidation in his market had been heavy for years, and he had been deleting cold acquisition emails the whole time. Our opening message worked because it was about his practice, not a row in a spreadsheet. A few months of cultivation later, he closed at $13M. No other buyer in the process.
Owner-operated. Not listed. Not in conversation with any advisor. Our outreach happened to land when his own circumstances were already pulling him toward a transition. Closed at $2.4M in under six months. The deal didn't exist on any listed channel.
We can't credibly promise you a closed deal. Too much of that depends on owner timing, diligence, and where price expectations land. What we can promise is the work. Every owner in your verified target list gets a full multi-touch sequence inside the agreed timeline, or we refund the retainer. We're not aware of another firm in this segment that writes that commitment into the contract.
Read the full termsEvery engagement runs on the same team, the same two-week onboarding, and the same coverage guarantee. The tier you pick changes the channel mix and how aggressive the cadence is.
The lean version. Personalized email, LinkedIn, and phone outreach with an experienced M&A operator on every seller call. Good if your buy box is focused and your timeline can flex.
Everything in Focused, with handwritten notes added to your highest-priority owners. The physical piece tends to lift response rates from the segment that ignores email entirely. If you're not sure where to start, this is probably the right place.
Everything in Standard, with handwritten mail across the full universe and Meta ad campaigns layered on. The awareness compounds with the direct outreach. Built for shorter timelines or markets where the PE competition is heavy.
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