We score every active UK company on exit readiness, so you can reach owners before a sale process starts. Our model rated 6 in 10 eventual sellers as likely to sell, before they sold.
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McKinsey estimates $5 trillion in US business value is at risk from failed ownership transitions. We mapped the equivalent problem across 3.8 million UK companies. Read the analysis.
Built on Companies House data. See the full exit statistics. UK search funds. UK search fund directory.
Scored and ranked target lists, updated from live filings.
Analyst-grade acquisition intelligence on a single target: investment thesis, financial benchmarking, approach strategy and tailored diligence questions.
We identify when a business is approaching a natural exit window from owner and director age, succession gaps, board changes and control structure, then rank how strongly those signals match businesses that went on to sell.
Most private companies don’t report revenue. We estimate revenue from ten independent balance sheet signals, including multi-year growth trajectories, cross-checked by a statistical model trained on 158,000 company-years. Validated against 3,668 companies in the search fund target range: median estimate within 23% of actual revenue.
Enterprise value range built from size and sector multiples applied to normalised EBITDA, adjusted for business quality and earnings volatility. It is not a formal valuation, but a calibrated starting point.
Current ratio, liabilities to equity and net assets growth set against peers of the same activity and filed size, with charts showing where the target sits. Filed margin and per-employee figures appear where the target and its peers filed a P&L.
Analyst note with an investment thesis. Recommended channel, timing, opening narrative, and deal structure signal. A draft approach letter tailored to the owner profile.
Operational, financial, and data-confidence risks identified and explained, ranked by severity, with sector risks alongside.
Full director profiles with age, tenure, and every other active appointment mapped. Network risk and governance bandwidth assessed.
The target against up to ten peers of the same activity and filed size, on current ratio, liabilities to equity, net assets growth and Exit Score. Filed margin appears where the target and its peers filed a P&L.
These are healthy businesses, and they vanish because no one made the introduction.
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Nearly a million UK companies have directors approaching retirement. Most buyers will never see them.