Strategic acquisitions
Match established companies against recorded buyer criteria, geography, and financial thresholds.
Mergers & acquisitions
Most good businesses are too small for the buyers with the most money.
A firm doing $800,000 a year in profit is a fine business and invisible to an acquirer who will not look below five million. Put four of them together and it is the same four businesses — but now it is a company that buyer will meet. That gap is what this desk exists to close.
Illustrative acquisition demandDemo mandate
Commercial Services Platform
Seeking complementary Texas operators
- Target revenue
- $8M+
- Target EBITDA
- $1M+
- Geography
- Texas
No single company qualifies?Model a strategic combination.
A more intelligent M&A workflow
Built around explicit acquisition criteria.
Start with what serious buyers want, then identify the strongest path to a transaction.
Add-on opportunities
Identify businesses that may be more valuable as part of a larger operating platform.
Confidential business sales
Control disclosure through buyer verification, NDAs, and seller-approved access.
Combination opportunities
Model multiple independent businesses against one buyer mandate without misrepresenting ownership.
Why combining works
The same profit is worth more inside a bigger company.
Not because it is run better. Because more buyers compete for larger companies, banks lend against them more willingly, and a company with real management is worth more than one that depends on its owner.
Each earning roughly $500,000 a year, each sold at the multiple a business that size normally fetches. Individually, none is large enough to interest an institutional buyer.
The same four businesses, now earning about $2,000,000 a year between them, with a management layer above them. That company gets looked at by buyers who would not have returned any of the four owners' calls.
The difference between what the four cost and what the one sells for is the reason anyone does this work. It is not free money: it takes capital, legal cost, months of diligence, and the businesses have to genuinely operate as one afterwards. Deals that skip that last part are where this strategy goes wrong.
Figures above are an illustration of the arithmetic, not a forecast, an offer, or a claim about any particular market. Multiples vary by industry, region, quality of earnings and the buyer in front of you. Nothing on this page is investment, legal, tax or valuation advice, and no combination is a completed transaction until it closes.
The buyer-first advantage
A marketplace waits for a listing. This starts from what a buyer already said they want.
01Buyer mandateExact acquisition requirements
02Target matchesHard criteria tested first
03Strategic combinationMultiple companies modeled
04Missing targetExact gap identified
Signature feature
Demo uses fictional businesses and modeled data.Strategic Combination Builder
Choose candidate businesses and watch the modeled opportunity update against a live buyer mandate.
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Candidate businessesSelect companies to model together
4 matching candidates
A
North Texas Mechanical Dallas–Fort Worth, TX
- Revenue
- $2.4M
- EBITDA
- $310K
- Commercial
- 64%
Data confidenceHigh
B
Gulf Coast Climate Services Houston, TX
- Revenue
- $2.0M
- EBITDA
- $260K
- Commercial
- 58%
Data confidenceHigh
C
Central Texas Building Systems Austin, TX
- Revenue
- $2.7M
- EBITDA
- $340K
- Commercial
- 71%
Data confidenceMedium
D
West Texas Commercial Air Lubbock, TX
- Revenue
- $1.5M
- EBITDA
- $190K
- Commercial
- 76%
Data confidenceHigh
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