Marketscape
The best companies to buy aren’t for sale yet.
When a strong business hits the market, it is swarmed within days. Marketscape finds the owners quietly approaching a sale, through generational handover, burnout, or a life event, and reaches the ones already inside your network, before anyone else knows.
OFF-MARKET M&A INTELLIGENCE
12M+
50+
Data sources
Pre-market
Targets
Scored
To your standards
THE PROBLEM
A good listing is descended on like a piece of bread in a duck pond.
Every banker, broker, and buyer sees it the moment it goes live. If you find out when everyone else does, you are already too late. The deals worth winning are the ones that are not on the market yet, and will not be, until the right buyer reaches the owner first. That is the window Marketscape works in.
The AI
THE EDGE
Most outreach inserts a name and a company. We bring intelligence.
Four capabilities, one output: interested owners you can actually reach.
See the sale before it happens
We scan millions of private companies for the early signs that an owner is heading toward a sale: generational handover, burnout, life events, lending activity, major asset moves. The targets that are not listed, and will not be for a while.
Find the targets you can actually reach
We map your network, across your professional and email connections, onto every target. Most of these deals get done warm. We show you not just the right companies, but the ones a step or two away from you.
Two scores, hundreds of inputs
Every target carries a strategic fit score and a closeness score, built from hundreds of data points grouped into financials, market, location, and access. The strongest opportunities rise to the top.
A research firm
We reach owners on behalf of a serious, funded buyer, never posing as the buyer ourselves. We arrive with a full profile of their business, honest about what we might have wrong, and ask one thing: are you open to a conversation. That is why they answer.
THE DATA
Breadth others don’t have. Validation others skip.
We pull from a wide range of public records, court filings, financial databases, professional networks, and proprietary signals, then we do not trust any single one. Every data point is weighed across sources for agreement and reliability, scored for confidence, and confirmed by the owner where possible. When an owner links their books directly, that becomes the highest confidence of all.
ENGAGEMENTS
Start with a map. Scale to a pipeline.
From a one-off market study to a fully managed off-market sourcing function.
Custom
Multi-Thesis
Multiple deal boxes and users for a firm-wide program.
Custom pricing
Multiple theses and seats
Team relationship mapping
Data enrichment on request
API and direct data access
04
Data enrichment on your existing list is available as a one-off project.
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
From your thesis to a ready conversation.
Here is what a typical engagement looks like. Details below are an illustrative example, not a specific client.
01
You define your deal box
Sector, size, geography, model, and the kind of owner situation you want to step into. The sharper the thesis, the sharper the targets.
02
We surface the off-market targets
We rank private companies on strategic fit and on how close each one already is to your network.
03
We validate interest and financials
We reach the decision-makers as a research firm, confirm they are open to a conversation, and build a full dossier on each.
04
You choose who to pursue
You receive a ranked list of interested, verified owners. Pick the ones worth pursuing and we line up the introduction for your deal team.
EXAMPLE DOSSIER (ILLUSTRATIVE)
A regional operator in your target sector, showing a generational-handover signal, an owner-verified revenue profile, a strategic fit score, a closeness score, and two shared connections into the company.
Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers on how we find targets, reach owners, and what you receive.
How is this different from what brokers and bankers already use?
Most outbound in this market runs on the same contact databases and simple filters, so everyone reaches the same listed companies at the same time. We work off the signals that say a company is heading toward a sale before any listing exists, and we layer your own network on top so you reach the right owners warm.
Are you the buyer?
No. We are a research firm engaged by serious, funded buyers to find targets that fit their deal box. We are always transparent about that with the owners we contact, which is a large part of why they respond.
Where does your data come from?
From a wide range of public records, court filings, financial databases, professional networks, and proprietary signals. We cross-check every data point across sources, score it for confidence, and confirm it with the owner where possible.
How do you handle confidentiality?
Nothing about a target is shared with any other party until you choose to engage. Our outreach is discreet and framed as research, not a sale.
What do I actually receive, and how quickly?
A ranked shortlist of off-market owners who fit your thesis and have confirmed they are open to a conversation, each with a full dossier. Timing depends on the market you define and the plan you are on.
How does pricing and commitment work?
Engagements range from a one-off market map to fully managed monthly sourcing. Recurring plans ask for a short initial commitment so there is time to work the market properly.
REQUEST ACCESS
Tell us your deal box.
Describe the kind of company you want to acquire. We will come back with a sample of off-market owners who fit, and how close they already are to you.
You speak with a principal, not a bot.
No aggressive sales pitch.
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Nothing is shared until you choose to engage.