Stop drowning in listings.
Send us your buy-box and your pipeline. We rank every target against your thesis, kill the junk, and hand back the two or three worth a real look, each with a plain-English reason. The same desk that writes a Verdict, run as a fast pass across the whole list.
One flat written quote · sourced throughout · turnaround set with your scope
Your whole pipeline
The few that survive
Ranked against your buy-box
You send the buy-box and the list
- Your thesis, your constraints, and every listing sitting in the pipeline.
Every name, against your thesis
- Each target checked and ranked. The junk dies early, with a reason attached.
The two or three that survive
- A ranked shortlist with flags per target and a plain-English call on each.
A pipeline, cut to the two that matter.
Not a spreadsheet of everything, re-sorted. A short list of the targets worth your hours, and a clear reason the rest are not.
The shortlist you get back.
Buy-box: recurring-revenue home services, $1‑5M SDE · 11 targets in
The six ways a listing dies.
A screen is only useful if things fail it. These are the patterns that kill most targets before you ever waste a management call on them.
One account is a third of revenue. You are not buying a business, you are buying a contract that can walk.
Licenses, relationships, and know-how that leave in the seller's truck at close. What is left is a lease and a phone number.
Revenue held up by price increases while volume slides underneath. The listing shows growth; the customer count shows the truth.
Handshake arrangements, no assignment clauses, referral sources loyal to a person. Revenue that does not survive a change of hands.
The fleet, the equipment, the roof: due now, priced never. SDE says nothing about what is rusting in the yard.
A story listing. If the broker deck is the only place the figures appear, the screen treats them as claims, not facts.
For anyone with more listings than hours.
If your pipeline is bigger than the time you have to read it, this is the first cut.
Self-funded searchers
A full inbox and no time to read all of it. We rank it down to the two worth opening.
Funds & syndicates
Triaging inbound deal flow at speed. A ranked shortlist moves the pipeline without tying up an analyst.
First-time buyers
A second set of eyes before you sink the hours. Every reject carries the reason it was cut.
Brokers' buyers
Sort a marketplace dump down to the real ones. One flat quote per pass, nothing to retain.
Found the two worth a look? Turn any shortlist pick into a full Verdict, the same desk and the same sourcing, pointed at one company in depth. See the full Verdict.
Screen is one seat at a four-seat desk.
Due diligence is the anchor. The same sourced discipline runs from the first listing to the final price.
A pipeline you can't get through?
Send the thesis and the list. You get a ranked shortlist with the two or three worth a real look, each with a sourced reason, and one flat quote before any work starts.
One flat written quote per engagement · every call sourced or labelled