Do it yourself
Building it in-house.
Base salary$95,000/yr
Fully-loaded cost$10,133/mo
Tools & data$1,000/mo
Time to live outreach~75 days
Total over 12 months$133,600
No other buyer at the table competing you up, because there's no auction and no one else in the room. Same company. Same seller. Different way of finding them.
An in-house sourcing hire costs more than the salary line, and takes months before a single conversation happens. Model it against what we charge.
Same retainer whether you run Regional or National search, since it's the exact same service either way.
Rather not piece it together yourself? Our DIY package hands you this exact stack, inboxes, domains, CRM, lists, and sending infrastructure, for $1,000/mo, and you run the outreach.
Assumes a fully-loaded cost of 1.28× base salary (payroll tax and benefits) and a typical 60–90 day ramp to hire, onboard, build target lists, and warm up email infrastructure before outreach can begin.
By the time a deal hits your inbox, three to five other funds have the same CIM and the same hunger. You can win at the price that beat them all, or you can pass and watch someone else overpay.
Four weeks to underwrite a business it took the owner twenty years to build. LOI by Friday. Final bids by month-end. The deals that fit you best are often the ones where you ran out of time to prove it.
Operating expertise, a clean capital structure, a faster close, whatever makes you a better buyer than the next fund, the seller's already expecting it. You're paying for the right to deliver it.
One buyer at the table instead of five. There's no other bidder to compete against, and no auction clock forcing you to outbid anyone.
Bigger seller notes. Earnouts that share risk. Diligence on your timeline, not a banker's deadline.
You talk to the owner directly, not an advisor working to run a process on their behalf. There's no one manufacturing competitive tension to drive up interest.
We'll size your buy box, walk through the build-vs-buy math for your specific criteria, and cover the fee structure on a 20-minute call. Complimentary. You leave with the analysis.