For PE firms, independent sponsors, and family offices
5-10 off-market owner conversations a month.
Your team sees fewer than 1 in 5 of the deals in your market. We find the rest, and reach them before any banker. And put the owners on your calendar.
Free. Delivered in 72 hours, yours either way.
- Flat fee, never a success fee
- You approve all messages
- 5-10 a month, guaranteed
- You keep 100% of the deal
Trusted by 50+ companies
The problem
The deals you close aren’t the problem.
The ones you never see are.
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Deals you actually see
18%
The average PE firm sees under a fifth of the relevant deals in its own market. The rest get bought by somebody else.
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Auction premium on entry
1.5x
The deals that do reach you arrive banked, shopped to four other funds, priced up by as much as 1.5 turns of EBITDA by the auction.
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Touches to one closed deal
2,000
Getting to one closed deal takes roughly 2,000 outreach touches. Your BD function is a few people. The firms outrunning you have fifteen.
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In house BD desk, per year
$700K+
Building that function yourself: $700K+ a year in salaries and data seats, before the first meeting is booked.
You raised the fund. The deployment clock is running. And the best company in your thesis has never heard your name.
The mechanism
A list is not a deal.
We guarantee owners on your calendar.
Day one
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You give us the buy box.
Sector, size, EBITDA, geography, and what you’ve bought before.
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We find and verify the owners nobody’s calling.
Founder-owned, no sponsor, filtered by live signals: owner age, succession moves, flat hiring, filings, facility changes. Financials and direct lines verified, not modeled.
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You sign off the list before anything moves.
Targets and messaging come to you for approval first. One click, and it goes out under your firm’s name. You set the tone once, we hold it.
Approval queue· 3 awaiting sign-off- Family owned components manufacturer, OhioOwner 63, no successor named
- Specialty distributor, TexasFlat hiring, facility consolidation
- Precision machining, WisconsinSecond generation, new filing
Message for the Ohio manufacturer. Click another row to see its message.
Hi Bob, I am a partner at [your firm]. We back founder-owned components manufacturers in Ohio, and yours has been on our list a while. Worth a short call?
List cleared. Everything goes out under your firm’s name.
Try it. Illustrative targets, we never publish a real company name.
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We do the 2,000 touches. You take the warm calls.
Email, LinkedIn, and the phone, then owners who agreed to a real conversation, on your calendar.
Five to ten a month, guaranteed.
An owner, on your calendar
You already have databases. Databases stop at names, modeled revenue and an info@ address. Nobody buys a company from a spreadsheet.
The owners who aren’t ready this year? We keep them warm, so when they are ready, the first call they take is yours.
Your numbers, not ours
Run your own pipeline calculator.
Four numbers and you will see how many owner conversations your deal target actually needs this year. Most funds have never run the sum.
It runs in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere.
The math
The auction is the most expensive line item in your deal.
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15%to30%
Below auction multiples
Off-market deals close 15% to 30% below auction multiples. No bidding war.
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23%vs16%
Median IRR, proprietary against banked
Source most of your deals proprietarily and the median IRR is 23%, against 16% for the funds that wait on bankers.
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$1.5Mto$4.5M
Added to a single entry price
The math on one deal: on a $3M EBITDA target, the auction adds $1.5M to $4.5M to a single entry price. That money comes straight out of your return.
The four ways a fund gets off-market deal flow
Three of them cost you a percentage, your own hires, or your own time.
| Approach | In-house BD desk | Buy-side advisor | Databases | This engine |
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| Annual cost | $700K+ | Retainer plus 1% to 3% of the deal | $20K to $50K, then do it yourself | Flat monthly fee |
| Success fee | None | 1% to 3% at close | None | Never. You keep 100%. |
| Who does the work | Your hires | Their brand, shared clients | You | Done for you, under your brand |
| What you get | Meetings, eventually | Shopped deals | Names | 5 owner conversations a month, guaranteed |
Scroll the table sideways on a narrow screen.
Off-market discount and the proprietary against banked IRR comparison: Bain & Company research. The entry price figure is arithmetic on a $3M EBITDA target.
Free. Delivered in 72 hours, yours either way.
Proof
Ask the people we already do this for.
- 5years running outbound
- ~$70Madded to client pipelines
- 50+investor meetings booked Energea
- 189connections accepted BioStar Renewables
- 29%reply rate BioStar Renewables
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“Impressed with your work as always. You guys have been amazing in terms of giving feedback, making sure you’re present, trying to make sure it’s better, it’s performing at the highest level.”
Chris SattlerCo-founder, Energea
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“We’ve had such an amazing relationship for the past few months.”
Toby SchumacherHead of Sales, Hiline
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“Thanks for all the work that you guys have done, we have better connect rates and conversion now.”
Paul MeisterSVP Commercial, Origin
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“Sales team now focuses on what they do best, closing deals. Not prospecting.”
Sonia Sartor KozlowskiSenior Manager GTM Ops, Oyster
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“You are super helpful, having you guys completely onboarding us into everything, managing all the integrations, how everything gets integrated with each other. There’s a lot of details, and that’s when an agency like yours can be really helpful.”
SebastianBusiness Development, Finimize
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“A sharp strategist who knows how to turn ideas into results. A deep understanding of business growth and relationship building, but what really sets him apart is the ability to communicate complex ideas in a way that’s clear, actionable, and even fun.”
Mike PalmerCRO, Nice Shoes
Book a call
Bring your buy box. We will walk it with you.
We open real targets against your mandate and show you the signals behind them. If it is not worth running, we will say so.
Opens the calendar right here. You will not leave this page.
Questions
The ones that decide it.
What happens after I send you my buy box?
Within 72 hours you get five real off-market targets that fit it: named companies, the owner signal we found on each, and why it belongs in your thesis. Free, no call required, yours to keep whether or not you ever work with us. If they’re good, you’ll want to see who found them. That’s the whole pitch.
Do you take a success fee when a deal closes?
Never, and that is structural, not generous. Transaction-based fees would make us an unregistered broker-dealer, void your contracts, and taint the deal. Flat monthly fee plus a fixed fee per qualified conversation. You keep 100% of everything.
What exactly does the guarantee cover?
Five qualified conversations a month. An owner of a company in your buy box, who agreed to talk to you. Clock starts at campaign launch. Under five, that month is free. In the agreement, in writing.
Why should we pay you if no deal closes?
Because you’re not buying closings, you’re buying the top of the funnel you can’t staff. The market math is roughly 75 qualified conversations to one close; anyone who guarantees a close is lying to you. We guarantee the input, in writing, with our fee at risk. What happens inside those conversations is yours.
How is this different from a sourcing firm or a database?
Databases sell names. Sourcing firms sell outreach. We are priced on booked owner conversations and we guarantee the number. Nobody else in this market puts their fee behind the output.
We already have a sourcing firm and associates who do outbound.
Keep them. The question isn’t coverage, it’s conversion: how many owner conversations did those actually produce last quarter? Your associates cost around $2,000 a meeting fully loaded, and every hour they spend on top-of-funnel is an hour off diligence. We hand them warm owners so their time goes where it’s worth more.
What stops this from being spam with our name on it?
The approval queue. Every list and every message gets your one-click sign-off before anything sends. Each message is written to the specific business: what they build, how long they have owned it, why them. Older founders get called, not templated.
Where does the owner contact data come from?
Public and licensed sources, then verified by hand, every signal carrying its source. Nothing is ever used until you’ve approved the message it goes in. We’re not a broker and we never touch the deal, the footer spells out exactly what we are and aren’t.
What if the owner isn’t ready to sell?
Most aren’t, and that is why they are off-market and cheap to enter. A qualified owner who says “not this year” is a relationship your competitors don’t have. We keep the nurture running, and whoever spoke to the founder last wins the deal.
Are you running our buy box for other funds too?
No. One fund per mandate per sector, in the contract. Take your buy box and we don’t hunt it for anyone else, which is also why seats are limited. If a competitor in your thesis signs first, that sector is closed.
How soon will we see something real?
Setup runs through the first three weeks. Conversations begin in week four, and by day forty five you are looking at real data rather than promises. If it is working, you will know quickly. If it is not, you have risked a single quarter, the whole target file is still yours, and any month we come in under the floor costs you nothing.
What does it cost?
A flat monthly fee plus a fixed fee per delivered conversation, quoted once we have seen your buy box. Never a percentage of anything.
Send us your buy box. Five real off-market targets, free, in 72 hours, then decide if you want the machine that found them.
Flat fee. No success fee, ever. Five owner conversations a month, or you don’t pay.
Corebits. We open the doors. You do the deal.