Aligned Profit connects qualified business owners with the right advisors and buyers through a structured engagement and readiness process — built for founder-led businesses in the $3M–$20M EV range.
Aligned Profit handles everything upstream — engaging founders, preparing them for a transaction, and delivering qualified introductions to advisors and buyers through a structured qualification process.
M&A Advisors enter at Advisor Engagement. Buyers & Sponsors enter at Buyer Introduction. Two separate paths — we handle everything before both.
A sample of mandates originated, qualified, and advanced through the process.
Proprietary target identification, founder engagement, and qualification through LOI with a strategic buyer.
Supported platform evaluation and mandate-aligned advancement to LOI; transaction later restructured following executive transition.
Originated and qualified multi-provider practice; progressed to LOI with a strategic DSO acquirer.
Lower middle market deal teams consistently face the same friction: inconsistent proprietary pipeline, bandwidth-constrained origination, and sellers who aren't ready when buyers finally engage. Aligned Profit exists to close that gap.
Reliance on referrals and inbound creates unpredictable deal flow. Sophisticated buyers identify targets years ahead—but most teams lack the systematic capacity to do it.
Corp dev and BD roles require market mapping, outreach, follow-up, CRM hygiene, reporting, and conference coverage. No individual sustainably delivers all of it.
Platforms provide data, but turning targets into qualified conversations requires process discipline, follow-up, and relationship intelligence—not a subscription.
Founder-run businesses frequently lack the documentation sophisticated buyers expect. Poor financials and missing records are a leading cause of deal failure and re-trade risk.
Leads exist but aren't staged or moved. No pipeline dashboard means no predictability. BD roles require clean CRM reporting—but maintenance is rarely prioritized.
Momentum dies between founder interest and LOI. Missing information, unclear milestones, and timeline slippage turn promising conversations into dead deals.
The same origination system serves both sides of the transaction — with one foundational commitment: every seller opportunity is matched exclusively with a single partner. No competing introductions. No parallel processes. Advisors build a qualified seller pipeline. Buyers access curated off-market opportunities. One deal, one relationship.
We engage founders, collect preliminary financial information, and introduce qualified owners who are ready to explore a transaction — all under your brand. Your team closes deals, not cold calls.
We work with owners early in the transition process and coordinate introductions with advisors and buyers aligned to their goals. You get early access — before banker processes begin.
Our process is built around the upstream origination work that deal teams describe in their own job postings: market mapping, direct outreach, pipeline management, and readiness preparation. Not emails. Not "leads." Pipeline infrastructure.
Get StartedWe align on target criteria: deal size, sector, geography, thesis, and ideal owner profile. Every engagement begins with a documented mandate brief.
Systematic identification of thesis-fit targets in fragmented, founder-led verticals. Lists are built, screened, and prioritized before outreach begins.
Professional outreach to owners—controlled, mandate-aligned, and documented. Follow-up cadence maintained systematically with full response management.
Interested owners are qualified on fit, timing, and motivation. Qualification notes and pipeline stages updated in real time. Monthly report delivered to your team.
For engaged opportunities: financial request list, document organization, normalization notes, and a readiness summary—so your execution team receives a prepared handoff, not a surprise.
Aligned Profit operates on a monthly retainer basis, structured around your acquisition mandate and target profile. Each engagement is built to function as a continuous sourcing channel — not a campaign — producing qualified, founder-led opportunities before they reach intermediaries. No long-term contracts required. We recommend giving the program 90 days to build momentum and deliver meaningful pipeline.
Thesis-fit target universe built and maintained each month.
Outreach + follow-up cadence managed professionally on your behalf.
Financial packages and readiness summaries before advisors invest heavy time.
Most firms offering "deal flow" are generating leads at scale with no mandate alignment. We operate as a controlled, thesis-driven extension of your team—not a spray-and-pray outreach operation.
At $42,000/year, we represent a fraction of the cost of an in-house origination hire ($150K–$250K+/year in comp)—with faster ramp, lower risk, and clear deliverables every month.
Our ApproachWe don't set valuations, negotiate terms, or represent parties. We prepare and originate.
Every target is screened for thesis fit before outreach. Quality conversations, not raw contact counts.
Full pipeline visibility every month: stages, responses, qualified notes, and prioritized next steps.
Month-to-month commitments only. We recommend 90 days to build a qualified pipeline — but you're never locked in.
Expect early responses in the first 30–60 days. Meaningful readiness-qualified opportunities compound over 2–4 months depending on thesis specificity. Let's define your mandate.